Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [adj] [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of the dead were children , a girl aged about eight or nine and a boy of about eleven years , they were travelling together , but otherwise unaccompanied . |
| 2 | Twelve able miners or pickmen , at least , were to be employed at all times ( Leathart had recommended 30 or 40 or the lease to become void ) . |
| 3 | Effectively , the group consists of experienced barristers between the ages of forty-five and sixty and the number of genuine possibilities — the short list — may be as small as half a dozen . |
| 4 | With a deficit of 552 and thirteen and a quarter hours left , obviously only the weather was going to save England , so there was not the least justification for the barrage of short balls that Holding and Roberts hurled at Edrich and Close . |
| 5 | Neither Catherine the Great 's Commission on Popular Schools of 1782 nor the education statutes of 1804 and 1828 nor the foundation of elementary schools by the Ministry of State Properties and the Holy Synod had succeeded to any great extent in promoting the cause of peasant literacy . |
| 6 | Success followed success for the next few years but no races were held in 1888 and 1890 and the revival in 1891 was the beginning of another era with new builders entering the field although Lee 's still took an interest in events for in 1900 their steamboat " Lee " dressed overall took 80 members of the firm to see the Medway Barge Race . |
| 7 | But no , Jessie had to be something else ; Jessie had to be sent to the Secretarial School : no getting her hands sticky from the toffee hammer , breaking up the slabs in the long tins ; no weighing out a ha'p'orth of hundreds and thousands or a penn'orth of sugar baccy ; and as for the weighing out of the real baccy , of hard cut or shag or even serving the best cigars , oh no , oh no , her father was having Jessie do nothing like that . |
| 8 | It is noticeable that major areas of salt swell and piercement in central parts of Quadrant 47 and 48 and the west of Quadrant 49 are associated with the areas of anomalous uplift . |
| 9 | The pH remains between 7 and 7.5 and the water is moderately hard . |
| 10 | Mechanical contractors for the crude tanks 2045 and 2055 and the ballast water tank 3015 were Motherwell Bridge , the company which originally constructed the storage tanks . |
| 11 | Aelfwald was residing in the far north of his kingdom when George arrived in Northumbria in 786 and this and the association of his cult with Hexham seem to locate this Bernician prince essentially outside Deira . |
| 12 | Coronation Street , half past seven till eight , Rumpole from nine to ten so you can come out between eight and nine and ten and ele le le le eight and nine and ten and eleven , so you got time for couple between eight and nine and a couple between ten and eleven , how 's that ? |
| 13 | The age of the full-time judiciary has remained constant over many years : the average on appointment has been about fifty-two or -three and the average of all those in office has been about sixty . |
| 14 | The rough grassland/moor area declined by 23% between 1970/71 and 1979/80 and the area of permanent grassland increased ( and the total utilised agricultural area ) . |
| 15 | Although two of its directors were killed during the fighting between 1975 and 1979 and the building suffered badly from neglect , most of the National Museum 's collection survived . |
| 16 | The award is higher where the employer is found to have discriminated against the employee under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 , the Sex Discrimination Acts 1975 and 1986 and the Race Relations Act 1976. ( iv ) Special award Special awards are made where a dismissal relates to trade union membership . |
| 17 | Having plunged into the heartland of the Japanese-dominated midrange 4 × 4 sector with a Discovery pared to three doors and with an excellent new turbo-diesel or the old carburettored V-8 petrol to compete on price , they have now set about protecting the upper echelons by adding doors three and four and the injection version of the stalwart V-8 . |
| 18 | ( 1979 ) produced isopleths of precipitation acidity for selected periods which revealed increasing acidity between 1955–6 and 1975–6 and an enlargement of the area affected by acid precipitation in eastern North America . |
| 19 | You do not mention whether you are using Windows 3.0 or 3.1 and the procedure is slightly different in each . |
| 20 | Fourteen and nineteen and a half . |
| 21 | By 112 votes to 30 , the House of Assembly ( the white chamber of the tricameral Parliament ) passed the Repeal of Discriminatory Land Measures Act on June 5 , effectively nullifying the Land Acts of 1913 and 1936 and the Group Areas Act of 1950 . |
| 22 | In all these solutions the space-time can only be extended uniquely up to the fold singularities in regions II and III and the surface in region IV on which . |
| 23 | The 1940s and war made seditious literature a vital concern ; the 1950s and anti-communism made left-wing literature seem so threatening ; the 1960s and permissiveness eventually caused us to think we could go too far with ‘ indecent ’ and ‘ obscene ’ books ; and the 1970s and 1980s and the move towards a more multicultural society and the assertiveness of nationality made us conscious of the damage of racist and religiously intolerant literature . |
| 24 | The connections between pins 4 and 6 and the battery negative line keep the unused inputs which exist on the 4013 at Logic O and prevent false operation . |
| 25 | The argument that governments ( foolishly and shortsightedly ) attempt to win electoral support through the creation of mini-booms and full-employment at the cost of inflation just before an election approaches does accord with the common-sense of the fifties and sixties but the evidence is by no means entirely supportive of this perspective . |
| 26 | Support can be seen in the upsurge of working-class activity that accompanied the strikes of 1978 and 1979 and the way that the union 's leader , Lula , became such a popular figure . |
| 27 | At a meeting on May 10 and 11 in the northern town of Bamenda , 18 of the 21 opposition parties issued a call for a general strike on May 16 and 17 and a programme of civil disobedience and demonstrations on May 19 and 20 . |
| 28 | Example 4 gives a comparison between a single-note melody in bars 1 and 2 and the melody harmonised in 4ths in bars 3 and 4 . |
| 29 | Note however that the electric field is different on Sections 1 and 3 and the line integrals on Sections 2 and 4 vanish altogether ( because the path is perpendicular to the electric field ) . |
| 30 | Research International says that the proportion of farmers under 35 dropped from 39 to 14 per cent between 1987 and 1991 and the number with under 10 years ' experience dropped from 10 per cent to four per cent . |