Example sentences of "[num] [verb] [prep] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | November new car sales rose by 6.3% to 106,902 and new commercial vehicle sales rose by 15.3% to 15,920 compared with the same month in 1991 . |
| 2 | Manufacturing productivity rose nearly 8% in the first quarter of 1993 compared to the same period last year . |
| 3 | Thailand increased its rubber exports by 31 per cent in the first half of 1985 compared with the same period the year before — yet its rubber revenues fell by eight per cent1 . |
| 4 | In F9 EC cell extracts , an anti-p107 antibody disrupted DRTF1a ( Fig. 3 b ; compare tracks 2 and 3 ) , which , together with our result that the anti-DP-1 peptide antibodies interfered with DRTF1a ( Fig. 2 b ) , suggested that p107 and DP-1 exist in the same DRTF1/E2F complex . |
| 5 | A fortnight ago two men were killed and eight injured on the same stretch of road when a minibus and a car crashed . |
| 6 | Tobacco released to the market was down 11.3 percent in the first half of 1991 compared with the same period of 1990 and 17.7 percent down compared with the second half of 1990 . |
| 7 | Gross national product fell 5.8 per cent in January-February 1991 compared with the same period in 1990 . |
| 8 | Industrial output fell by 4.5 per cent in the first quarter of 1991 compared with the same period in 1990 , falling in the engineering sector by 14.2 per cent but rising in the food industry by 13 per cent . |
| 9 | A single pair at nearby Westham since 1963 derived from the same source . |
| 10 | My new Ninety suffers from the same problem ! |
| 11 | The bureau , in Horsemarket , received 259 inquiries during November last year an increase of 90 compared to the same month in 1990 . |
| 12 | The price farmers receive for agricultural products in the European Community fell by 11.8% in real terms in the last quarter of 1992 compared with the same period of 1991 . |
| 13 | On Feb. 3 between 3,000 and 10,000 protesters marched 14 km from Madrid to the Torrejón air base demanding the closure of US-Spanish bases as staging posts to the Gulf ; 3,500 marched on the same day to the Rota naval base on the south Atlantic coast . |
| 14 | These 20 patients were taken from a total of 32 diagnosed during the same period ; 12 patients were excluded because of poor compliance with the diet ( seven cases ) or denied consent to the protocol ( five cases ) . |
| 15 | The plan to pay all 25 benefits from the same office — rather than make claimants chase about between different centres -was announced by Social Services Secretary Peter Lilley . |
| 16 | yeah — i talk to him the next time i see him ; - ) ( joke ! — well i stayed at the same hotel as the norw. players before our game against england and actually talked to a couple of players … the next time i will have a chat with leeds-fan rekdal ; - ) i will however forward your wishes of luck if/when i write to the supporters club . |
| 17 | The Charter Unit 's second-class sets , or more correctly standard class sets as BR now prefers to describe them , also underwent refurbishment during the tail end of the 1980s with twenty-four of the Mk 1 TSOs being smartened up and fitted for air braking during 1988 , and a further twelve earmarked for the same treatment during the early part of 1990 . |
| 18 | The consultative document cites as an example the fact that both a Ford Fiesta and Mercedes 1.90 fall within the same scale charge band . |
| 19 | Mythic discordance is analogous to musical dissonance : in fact , the two derive from the same source and arouse the same joy . |
| 20 | Little of interest emerged more than some obscure work-arounds forced on Intel by the x86 architecture and the fact that the chip 's data cache is uniquely dual ported allowing two accesses in the same cycle . |
| 21 | Four of 252 's Beaufighters had been destroyed on the ground during air raids while on Malta and the remaining four left on the same day for Gibraltar on the first leg of the flight back to England , each carrying three aboard instead of the usual crew of two . |
| 22 | The revenues that washed over both for much of the 1980s flowed from the same wellspring . |
| 23 | Road deaths increased in the UK by six percent to 1250 in the second quarter of 1990 compared to the same period for last year . |
| 24 | A crowd estimated at several thousands gathered outside the former embassy chanting " Death to America " . |
| 25 | The Education ( Choice of Employment ) Bill 1910 inched towards the latter problem by enabling local authorities to provide vocational guidance for school-leavers ; in the following year the Board of Education gave grants for this purpose . |