Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Indian Army statistics , at least 1,100 Indian soldiers and 2,200 Tamil fighters had been killed in the 32 months of fighting since the IPKF 's July 1987 arrival ; other estimates put the losses higher , and there had been an unknown number of civilian casualties . |
| 2 | There was a period of at least 12 hours of fasting before the investigations . |
| 3 | After some 30 minutes of driving towards the jagged mass of the Troodos Range , we turn and plunge down a steep trail to a river bank . |
| 4 | Regimes incorporating anthelmintic control recommend treatment of sows and gilts 1-2 weeks before putting to the boar , and again 1-2 weeks before farrowing . |
| 5 | An illustrated lecture by Dr John Shannon OBE , Chairman of the York Civic Trust , examining the architectural details of York — gleaned from 30 years of walking around the City . |
| 6 | It was one of the very best I 've spent in 30 years of climbing round the world . |
| 7 | The figures have been released on the day the Samaritans mark forty years of listening to the nation 's problems . |
| 8 | The 73-year-old spinster , who worked for three generations of the same family for 56 years , was dragged 30 yards before falling under the giant wheels . |
| 9 | The FT-SE fell 22 points before rallying on the cheerier economic news to close down 10.3 at 2716.2 . |
| 10 | he played once more before the Lord 's show-piece and was called six times for throwing in the Hampshire match , but the selectors decided to risk him again in the second Test , where he was to meet his fate at the most famous ground in cricket . |
| 11 | So we get him back and he gets maybe an extra six months for going over the wall . |
| 12 | Six months after returning from the Soviet Union , Nizan spoke at the International Congress for the Defence of Culture of the possibilities in the current socio-political climate of establishing a genuinely human society freed from class divisions and class oppression . |
| 13 | He intended to stay six months before returning to the secure family practice . |
| 14 | Alex Cockburn , later to work for Black Dwarf and 7 Days before decamping to the States and a 1970s career on Village Voice , provided a somewhat withdrawn interview with the New Statesman 's then right-wing socialist editor Paul Johnson . |
| 15 | In 10 years of filming around the globe , he 's come across Oxfam time . |
| 16 | My aims were to record the time distribution of night visits and to show the trend in claims in Berkshire over the past 10 years after adjusting for the change in claimable hours . |
| 17 | As Jamie was 10 shots behind going into the final round at Crans , his regular caddie , Mark Steers , was quite confident that he had chosen a good week to take off . |
| 18 | They looked up at her , and it was clear without anything being said that they were doing their best to cram fifty years of living into the next week or two . |
| 19 | But to me it 's innately dishonest to make claims that a cream that is basically oil and water is going to take grief and stress and fifty years of living in the sun off your face . |
| 20 | The well-dressing was started in Dore in 1959 as an added attraction for the scout gala , which takes place on the second Saturday in July , so an obvious choice for the design was ‘ A Boy Scout ’ , representing fifty years of scouting in the district . |
| 21 | Police talked to the man for 90 minutes before breaking into the flat in Brighton and grabbing him after he threatened to light a match . |
| 22 | And the only thing is that finally after three months of waiting for the received all their medals and things for so it can go ahead . |
| 23 | In three rounds of voting on the first day of the two-day congress held in Gdansk , Krzaklewski emerged as winner from a field of seven candidates . |
| 24 | At the end of May 1989 a new supreme representative body , the 2,250-member Congress of People 's Deputies , held its inaugural session after being elected in three rounds of voting during the previous two months . |
| 25 | Shushkevich was elected by 214 votes out of a total of 312 , after three rounds of voting in the Supreme Soviet , gaining 163 votes more than the other candidate , Leonid Kozik . |
| 26 | Sometimes it is the Had I But Known what grim secret lurked beneath the smiling exterior I would never have set foot within the door ; Sometimes the Had I But Known then what I know now , I could have saved at least three lives by revealing to the Inspector the conversation I heard through that fortuitous hole in the floor . |
| 27 | In the three weeks since coming to the market through a placing and offer at 160p , the shares have risen 73p to 233p . |
| 28 | Warships , pleasure boats , container ships — Britain 's royal yacht Britannia was due some days later — all saving themselves 8,000 miles and three weeks of sailing round the Horn . |
| 29 | In July , two or three weeks after arriving in the United States , Eliot travelled to Washington in order to visit Pound at St Elizabeth 's , the asylum where he was being held . |
| 30 | Forgotten-man Pavel emerges from the shadows for only his second League appearance for the Geordies in 13 months and just three weeks after coming off the transfer list . |