Example sentences of "[num] and [adj] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Effectively , the group consists of experienced barristers between the ages of forty-five and sixty and the number of genuine possibilities — the short list — may be as small as half a dozen . |
| 2 | Neither Catherine the Great 's Commission on Popular Schools of 1782 nor the education statutes of 1804 and 1828 nor the foundation of elementary schools by the Ministry of State Properties and the Holy Synod had succeeded to any great extent in promoting the cause of peasant literacy . |
| 3 | Success followed success for the next few years but no races were held in 1888 and 1890 and the revival in 1891 was the beginning of another era with new builders entering the field although Lee 's still took an interest in events for in 1900 their steamboat " Lee " dressed overall took 80 members of the firm to see the Medway Barge Race . |
| 4 | Privatisation of JR East was shelved in 1991 and 1992 because the stockmarket was so weak ; this time , the government seems committed to a sale . |
| 5 | With different rolls being exposed to several subjects of different contrasts this is still possible with APE 100 and Rodinal if the developer is used at different dilutions . |
| 6 | It is noticeable that major areas of salt swell and piercement in central parts of Quadrant 47 and 48 and the west of Quadrant 49 are associated with the areas of anomalous uplift . |
| 7 | The pH remains between 7 and 7.5 and the water is moderately hard . |
| 8 | Mechanical contractors for the crude tanks 2045 and 2055 and the ballast water tank 3015 were Motherwell Bridge , the company which originally constructed the storage tanks . |
| 9 | Aelfwald was residing in the far north of his kingdom when George arrived in Northumbria in 786 and this and the association of his cult with Hexham seem to locate this Bernician prince essentially outside Deira . |
| 10 | The rough grassland/moor area declined by 23% between 1970/71 and 1979/80 and the area of permanent grassland increased ( and the total utilised agricultural area ) . |
| 11 | Although two of its directors were killed during the fighting between 1975 and 1979 and the building suffered badly from neglect , most of the National Museum 's collection survived . |
| 12 | The award is higher where the employer is found to have discriminated against the employee under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 , the Sex Discrimination Acts 1975 and 1986 and the Race Relations Act 1976. ( iv ) Special award Special awards are made where a dismissal relates to trade union membership . |
| 13 | Having plunged into the heartland of the Japanese-dominated midrange 4 × 4 sector with a Discovery pared to three doors and with an excellent new turbo-diesel or the old carburettored V-8 petrol to compete on price , they have now set about protecting the upper echelons by adding doors three and four and the injection version of the stalwart V-8 . |
| 14 | The systolic , diastolic , and mean arterial pressures were recorded as described previously with an automatic device ( Dinamap , Critikon , Florida ; cuff size 23–13 cm/13 cm ) every three minutes for 30 minutes between 0900 and 1100 while the patient was supine , and the mean of these 10 values was recorded . |
| 15 | By 112 votes to 30 , the House of Assembly ( the white chamber of the tricameral Parliament ) passed the Repeal of Discriminatory Land Measures Act on June 5 , effectively nullifying the Land Acts of 1913 and 1936 and the Group Areas Act of 1950 . |
| 16 | In all these solutions the space-time can only be extended uniquely up to the fold singularities in regions II and III and the surface in region IV on which . |
| 17 | The 1940s and war made seditious literature a vital concern ; the 1950s and anti-communism made left-wing literature seem so threatening ; the 1960s and permissiveness eventually caused us to think we could go too far with ‘ indecent ’ and ‘ obscene ’ books ; and the 1970s and 1980s and the move towards a more multicultural society and the assertiveness of nationality made us conscious of the damage of racist and religiously intolerant literature . |
| 18 | Repeat steps 5 and 6 until the letter has been completed |
| 19 | The time for which the oesophageal pH was below 4 and 5 after the meal was consumed was calculated as a percentage of the total postprandial recording time . |
| 20 | There is a difference between sections 4 and 5 that the conduct impugned does not need to be used ‘ towards another ’ under section 5 . |
| 21 | The connections between pins 4 and 6 and the battery negative line keep the unused inputs which exist on the 4013 at Logic O and prevent false operation . |
| 22 | The argument that governments ( foolishly and shortsightedly ) attempt to win electoral support through the creation of mini-booms and full-employment at the cost of inflation just before an election approaches does accord with the common-sense of the fifties and sixties but the evidence is by no means entirely supportive of this perspective . |
| 23 | Support can be seen in the upsurge of working-class activity that accompanied the strikes of 1978 and 1979 and the way that the union 's leader , Lula , became such a popular figure . |
| 24 | According to opposition parties and human rights groups some 10 people were killed and 50 arrested between Jan. 8 and 11 as the government took reprisals against Habré 's former ministers and members of the embryonic multiparty opposition . |
| 25 | M M My Lords , i it is important that whatever is taught to a child between the ages of five and eleven that the child is able to benefit from it educationally if the child is , is overloaded as it were by being presented erm a curriculum that they simply can not manage , then that 's going to create confusion , but it 's also important to say that one of the erm er objectives of this whole exercise is to underpin all education , both morally and spiritually and I believe we 're doing a great deal to get that right . |
| 26 | Example 4 gives a comparison between a single-note melody in bars 1 and 2 and the melody harmonised in 4ths in bars 3 and 4 . |
| 27 | Note however that the electric field is different on Sections 1 and 3 and the line integrals on Sections 2 and 4 vanish altogether ( because the path is perpendicular to the electric field ) . |
| 28 | Research International says that the proportion of farmers under 35 dropped from 39 to 14 per cent between 1987 and 1991 and the number with under 10 years ' experience dropped from 10 per cent to four per cent . |
| 29 | Most of those leaving the cities have done so through the commercial market and they have moved for a variety of reasons ( Kennett and Hall , 1981 ) : more freely-available , cheaper , owner-occupied housing might be found beyond the cities in environmentally-attractive locations ; households are more mobile — car-ownership rates doubled between 1961 and 1981 and the electrification of some InterCity lines has encouraged a marked decentralization of people away from London to areas such as Peterborough , Stamford ( Lincs. ) and even Newark ( Notts. ) ; many move out of cities on retirement ; and for the economically active in the south of England , movement out of London becomes ever more attractive as many commercial activities leave the capital . |
| 30 | In fact , it almost doubled in the OECD between 1970 and 1987 and the trend remains upward . |