Example sentences of "[num] and [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keep the same colour sequence throughout , marking in the first two rows any stitches knitted with col. 1 , in the second pair of rows those stitches knitted with col. 2 and in the third pair of rows the stitches knitted with col. 3 . |
| 2 | In the first volume of ‘ The Impossible Dream ’ Peter King told of the rescue and repair of the Duke taking the story through to 1985 and in the second volume he tells of the return to steam culminating in the blue riband run over the Settle and Carlisle in September 1990 . |
| 3 | While we are on the subject of indirect taxes , will the Government tell the House how they will continue to cut direct taxes and improve public services without at the same time raising VAT as they did in 1979 and in the last Budget ? |
| 4 | Meanwhile in 1766 , Edward Snape , farrier to George III and to the second troop of Life Guards , published a proposal to establish in London what might be called a ‘ teaching hospital ’ for instruction on the diseases of horses . |
| 5 | Wallace , signed for £1.2million from Southampton , last played a League game in May 1991 and until the last fortnight it seemed his future lay away from Manchester . |
| 6 | In the sixth week of 1845 it held 260 people ; for the same week in 1846 the figure was 320 and in the last year of the Famine 893 . |
| 7 | He sailed for Algiers in March 1943 and during the last days of the Tunisian campaign he saw a mere fortnight 's active service . |
| 8 | The new trolleybus service was numbered 654 and for the first time there was a through service crossing the main road at West Croydon . |
| 9 | The children running the shop today are all aged eight and from the third year at school , but how much do they know about what the shop does . |
| 10 | The first season I fished it I caught a solitary barbel , during the second I caught about a dozen and in the third well over fifty . |
| 11 | Certainly he played extremely well in that position after Peter Wall was injured for most of 1972–73 and in the first half of 1973–74 , and it was from that position that he captained the Palace side . |
| 12 | Troubled by a cold and a painful left shoulder , he managed only a 73 and for the third time in four starts missed the cut . |
| 13 | A draft Convention was prepared by a Special Commission of the Hague Conference in February 1964 and by the 10th Session of the Conference in the following October . |
| 14 | It saw a slight recovery of demand for its products by the end of 1992 and during the first months of 1993 . |
| 15 | In short , the value of history as a school subject must be constantly and publicly argued because : ( 1 ) history may lose out in any modification to the National Curriculum ; ( 2 ) in the implementation of the existing national curriculum it may be marginalised in the scramble for resources and timetable space ; ( 3 ) a rigorous projection of the value of the subject is important to the well-being of the school in the face of competition from other schools and possible closure ; ( 4 ) students have a choice at Key Stage 4 and in the sixth form and it is essential for the integrity of the subject that single-subject history should have a good representation at both levels ; ( 5 ) above all history has much to offer to the student of the 1990s . |
| 16 | He died 19 January 1883 aged 82 and in the 54th year of his ministry . |
| 17 | The main impetus in Britain for measures to deal with age discrimination at the workplace — despite the current recession — derive from the so called demographic time bomb which will be increasingly felt by all organisations , public and private , during the 1990s and into the next century . |
| 18 | Andrew Beattie was allowed a visit by his wife for a few minutes around half-past one and for the first time he learned that no strike organisers had been arrested other than in the Rathcoole district . |
| 19 | The note to which I refer of six er page six seven five reads as follows , the words omitted from sub-sections one , four and five and the whole of sub-section three were repealed and sub-section six was substituted by the Local Government Act nineteen seventy two , sections one hundred and ninety-six one two , two hundred and seventy-two one , Schedule thirty , the words in square brackets in sub-section one and in the first pair of square brackets in sub-section two , were substituted and the words omitted from para two B , paragraph two B and the whole of paragraph two C , both of which had been inserted by the Local Government Act nineteen seventy two , section two hundred and seventeen , schedule twenty- seven , part two , paragraph eighteen were repealed . |
| 20 | Thus , the over-65s in 1983 were the generation of the 1930s and of the Second World War ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 21 | During the 1930s and throughout the Second World War the site had been an isolated airfield and it was here , immediately following the end of the war and a clamp-down on the interchange of information with the USA , that it was decided to set up Britain 's civil atomic energy programme . |
| 22 | To see how this can be done , we will start by observing that x i j occurs in the ith equation of ( 8.1 ) with coefficient -1 and in the jth equation with coefficient +1 . |
| 23 | His statement referred to the 1956 decision on withdrawal , noting that membership " was in conflict with the wishes of the people in 1956 and during the last elections , and we think the whole agreement is unnecessary " ; the matter was then referred to the relevant parliamentary committees . |
| 24 | His two goals helped Vale beat local rivals Stoke for the first time since 1956 and for the first time ever in the FA Cup . |
| 25 | The hitherto buoyant Taiwan stock exchange suffered an unprecedented decline during 1989 and in the first half of 1990 . |
| 26 | After being defeated by Botvinnik on a number of occasions — notably at the great Avro Tournament of 1938 and at the first post war tournament held to find a successor to the late Alekhine — he finally got his revenge with a triumphal victory over the Soviet champion in the USSR . |
| 27 | This was held on 16 February 1936 and for the first time in the history of the Second Republic involved an evenly matched contest between large , cohesive left- and right-wing alliances ; the Radical Party virtually disappeared as a significant force , leaving the political centre effectively unrepresented . |