Example sentences of "[num] [coord] [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 The current 300,000 youth training places in the United Kingdom compare with the lamentable 7,000 or so under the last Labour Government .
2 This was low in 1801 and 1802 but high over the next five years ; it was on the low side in 1812 and 1813 , recovered in 1814 , but was falling again as the wars ended .
3 He will head a start-up team of seven staff which is expected to grow to a dozen or more over the next six to nine months .
4 He will head a start-up team of seven staff which is expected to grow to a dozen or more over the next six to nine months .
5 I then zealous to understand I I er , er , erm sought it Statutes , Volume thirty-three nineteen ninety three edition and studied most carefully pages six hundred and seventy-five to six hundred and seventy-seven and there I found an account of what has happened to Sections two and three and also for the first time light was shed upon Section two A. My Lords , I have from time to time ventured to express some doubt as to whether our legislative procedures were as excellent , as I 'm sure Your Lordships would wish them to be and when I recently suggested in the most mild terms to Her Majesty 's Government that they might consider some form of enquiry into our legislative procedures to see whether as they were as high class as they should be , erm I was given a very negative reply the clear influence of which was that the our legislative procedures could not possibly be improved and My Lords I do really think with respect that that is a proposition which is open to doubt .
6 held several commands in the parliamentary navy in the period 1646–52 and again during the second Dutch war .
7 But when thrifts went bust in their hundreds in 1989 , necessitating a federal rescue that could cost the taxpayer $500 billion or more over the next 30 years , the goalposts were abruptly moved for junk borrowers , too .
8 Together with the urgent need for skills flexibility at all levels in the workforce in the 1990s , the philosophy of continual retraining , the enhancing and refreshing of existing skills and the establishing of new ones , is likely to be a major theme of European training initiatives throughout the 1990s and well into the next century .
9 Choose a sun protection factor of 15 or more for the first few days .
10 For the browsers there is Golf : The Golden Years , a pictorial anthology by Sarah Baddiel celebrating the last few years of the 19th century and the first 40 or so of the 20th .
11 Dean Hodgson was first to go … caught behind … for 9 and then in the next but one over Broad was leg before for 14 … at 26 for 2 the Gloucestershire folk must have thought they were in for a hard day but Mark Alleyne came to the rescue … he made 73 …
12 And no Tory government is gon na take away our Health Service from my grandchildren , who will be born in a National Health Service hospital and hopefully will enjoy the benefits and the care during the rest of the nineties and well into the next century .
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