Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [noun prp] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | English scribes were to be found living in Paris in the first quarter of the fourteenth century . |
| 2 | That I am living in Britain in the first place has everything to do with the fact that I came here to start the magazine you are reading , a magazine for men . |
| 3 | The 60,000 or so people living in Sussex in the sixteenth century had become 160,000 by 1801 and 260,000 by 1831 . |
| 4 | At Benjamin Rhodes , there are new paintings by Simon Edmondson ( 17 June-7 August ) , who has been living in Madrid for the last twelve months and previously showed with Nicola Jacobs . |
| 5 | The Open Software Foundation is to reveal the first snapshot of its Distributed Management Environment architecture after its members meeting in Munich on the 13th . |
| 6 | This course gives students the opportunity to study in-depth the cultural and historical forces which have been operating in Ireland since the 17th century . |
| 7 | This option is of particular interest to students who wish to increase their awareness and understanding of the cultural and historical forces which have been operating in Ireland since the 17th century . |
| 8 | The tenth nuclear power unit is to start operating in India in the next few months , with the country aiming for a nuclear part with a total of 16 units within the coming years . |
| 9 | Eighty years does n't seem a very long time when you consider the art of acting has been prospering in Europe over the last four hundred or so years , quite apart from the great traditions of ancient Greek drama . |
| 10 | The invention of printing in Europe in the sixteenth century soon brought with it a number of books offering dream-interpretations for ordinary people . |
| 11 | The community reaction to mining in Ireland over the last two decades is one that can be presented in an almost linear , chronological fashion . |
| 12 | Again , he was teaching in London for the first time although he had taught before : |
| 13 | Many of the best women tennis players from home and abroad will be competing in Swindon for the next 7 days . |
| 14 | He said Dr Clarke would be canvassing in Darlington over the next three weeks and the party intended to hold public meetings . |
| 15 | I 'm therefore doubly grateful to you for giving me the chance to meet you today , and I hope that some of the contacts I might make today will stand me in good stead in the job that I 'm doing in Oxford over the next year or so . |
| 16 | But after sensing that the confidence was ebbing away from his opponent after reeling in Wilkinson in the second set , Witt 's delivery became more consistent and appropriately he clinched a place in the quarter-finals with his 11th ace . |
| 17 | On April 11 the chair of the Knesset immigration committee , Michael Kleiner , expressed concern over the fall in the number of Soviet Jewish immigrants arriving in Israel during the first quarter of 1991 . |
| 18 | A visitor arriving in Zurich for the first time will almost certainly do so with a preconceived idea of a feverishly busy city where austere-faced financiers wearing dark suits hurry past in search of the next billion dollars , where bankers huddle together in back rooms like a secret society , a place resembling a web from the centre of which threads reach out to manipulate the money markets of the world , and everything is subordinate to profit . |
| 19 | The Conservatives , fighting in Ulster for the first time in 70 years , failed to win any seats . |
| 20 | Despite an intensification of fighting in Kashmir in the first half of 1990 talks with India continued , with the fourth round completed in April 1991 . |
| 21 | The son of a professor , Boomer became interested in golf when he watched the six-times Open Champion Harry Vardon , whose birthplace he shared , playing in Jersey during the First World War . |
| 22 | ‘ The studio portraiture movement , flourishing in Britain from the second half of the 19th century until early 1960s , channelled many women into photography as a professional occupation … ’ says Val Williams . |
| 23 | Cézanne 's intensely ‘ painterly ’ art with its brilliant use of colour and its mysterious deformations , which suggested a range of new pictorial concepts , was a source of inspiration for almost all the significant young painters working in Europe during the first quarter of the twentieth century . |
| 24 | Doug Green suggests that it was too much for a teacher working in London for the first time : |
| 25 | In the Steam Museum , the Power Hall displays live steam stationary engines made or working in Ireland during the nineteenth century . |