Example sentences of "[num] the [noun] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In August 1980 the DUC produced the second issue of their bulletin STOP . |
| 2 | From the early 1890s the LCC built the first large modern housing estates in the country . |
| 3 | In the autumn of 1929 the USSR became the first state to break the illusions created by the Kellogg-Briand pact by unleashing its Special Far Eastern Army upon the Manchurian nationalists , who rashly thought they could put an end to Soviet control of the Chinese Eastern Railway . |
| 4 | On March 7 the Iraqis released the first 1,000 of the Kuwaitis taken prisoner at the end of the Iraqi occupation , the total number of those abducted being given as some 7,000 . |
| 5 | On Feb. 18 the North suspended the fourth round of Premiers ' talks which had been scheduled for Feb. 25-28 , but agreement was reached the same month on joint sports teams [ see p. 38010 ; see also pp. 38341 ; 38437 ; 38529 ; 38576 ] . |
| 6 | At the end of 1992 the company installed the first 1,000-number exchange in Ekaterinburg , which was assembled at the local Ural Electromechanical plant . |
| 7 | And in 1923 the company made the first published record by a reigning British monarch , King George V and Queen Mary 's ‘ Empire Day Message to the Boys and Girls of the British Empire ’ ( 34 ) . |
| 8 | Consequently , on that day in the year AD 247 the Romans celebrated the thousandth anniversary of the founding of their city . |
| 9 | In 1942 the Battalion left the 48th Division and was transferred to the 54th , billeted at Walberswick and Southwold . |
| 10 | In 1882 the Legislature took the first of these courses . |
| 11 | Upon their return to England after South African unification in 1910 the kindergarten tackled the next item on what seems to have been an implicit agenda — the unification of the British empire . |