Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [adv] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Campbell 's survey of London trades in 1747 lists only a handful of female crafts all paid wages well below male trades . |
| 2 | Forty years Where a term of more than forty years is created the tenant may , after the expiry of twenty-five years of the term , apply to the court for the discharge of any restriction affecting the user of the demised property ( Law of Property Act 1925 , s84(12) ) . |
| 3 | Forty years later the islet of old Jaimeni appeared . |
| 4 | Forty years earlier the promise of town planning was that it could address the urban housing problems of the day , but the principles of environmental regulations were now seen to relate to a quite different set of questions : the problems of regional economic development . |
| 5 | The hostages , who were held for 444 days following the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran in September 1979 , were released within minutes of Reagan being sworn in as President on Jan. 21 , 1981 . |
| 6 | There were six cases where the relevance of homosexuality was evident . |
| 7 | Describe in no more than 100 words how the production of sweet white wines varies from that of dry white wines . |
| 8 | Symptoms of sickle cell anaemia are seldom manifest before the age of six months when the level of circulating fetal haemoglobin falls to the adult level . |
| 9 | ‘ And yet six years ago the music of the sidh was heard in Ireland again , Fergus . ’ |
| 10 | Where the Regulations apply , they give a cooling-off period entitling the customer to cancel the agreement at any time ‘ within the period of 7 days following the making of the contract . ’ |
| 11 | 100 years ago a legion of artists and craftsmen made the same journey . |
| 12 | About 10 years ago the use of ml and l for millilitres and litres respectively was banished suddenly from British Standards in favour of mL and L , though both are permitted as alternatives by the ISO standard dealing with the layout of standards . |
| 13 | Chapter 7 shows how the nature of management strategy has been influenced by the success of the government in changing the ‘ rules of the game ’ — the set of political signals that forms the environment for managerial decision-making and determines the broad costs and benefits of different courses of action . |
| 14 | Certainly as far as we 're concerned at Traidcraft , when we started eight years ago a packet of coffee was two pound twenty five . |
| 15 | Eight years ago the function of the auction houses changed from that of middlemen handling the occasional wonderful contemporary collection like that of the Sculls to that of primary dealers in contemporary art . |
| 16 | If the trends shown by my research continue and the numbers of night visits double again within another eight years then a reorganisation of this sort will become essential . |
| 17 | If the first order is made for less than eight weeks however the balance of this period may be taken up by the second or subsequent orders . |
| 18 | The total cosmid library contained about 8500 clones , a coverage of 23 , but most hybridisations were done on a sublibrary of 3000 clones ie a coverage of 8.5 . |
| 19 | About fifty years ago the price of sugar increased , and so the farmers changed from turnips as a fodder crop to sugarbeet . |
| 20 | So that the wearing of mourning , fifty years earlier a sign of virtue , had now in Mrs Maugham 's generation become a habit to be scorned and condemned ; it was ostentatious and therefore it was insincere . |
| 21 | In fact , of the 202 cases where a date of birth is known ( see Table 8 ) , only 4 were born in that year ( as compared with 18 born in 1895 ) . |
| 22 | According to Walter , the angels in heaven cried out " Alas ! " three times when the Donation of Constantine was made . |
| 23 | It has now to be adopted by the Council of Ministers to bring automatically into force three days later the Regulation of the Export of Cultural Goods to outside the European Community . |
| 24 | It hardly seems likely that the Government was jolted into action by the Northamptonshire Society 's letter , but nevertheless three days later the House of Commons ordered that a Select Committee ‘ be appointed to consider and report upon the Re-construction of the Foreign Office in relation to the future Rebuilding of other Offices on a uniform Plan , due regard being had to Public Convenience and Economy ’ . |
| 25 | Two or three years ago a friend of mine who is a publisher applied to me for help in dealing with a complaint from a man who had bought one of his cookery books . |
| 26 | Three years ago a tortoise of ours got killed like that and on just about this very spot . |
| 27 | Three years ago a group of have-nots , led by Mexico , blocked agreement on stiffer NPT rules for trade in nuclear materials because the nuclear powers would not agree to ban tests . |
| 28 | Three years ago the chairman of that company had a salary of £46,000 . |
| 29 | Three years later the introduction of a new registration system for despatches and telegrams played a crucial role in changing the position of the more senior officials , the first-division clerks , and giving them , far more than in the past , a share in policy-making . |
| 30 | So if I was off for two or three years then the rate of inflation was high , then it would be ten per cent each those years |