Example sentences of "occur [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 ‘ This genuine shortage is occurring for the first time ever .
2 All this occurred during the first months of the Awlad Amira administration , while Mannaia still smarted from electoral defeat ; and at that time some lineages did not exclude the possibility of further Tibbu reprisals after the earlier fighting and homicides .
3 Also shown are photographs of some of the more notable news happenings that occurred during the first half of the present century .
4 Unfortunately heavy losses occurred during the First World War with all four being sunk .
5 The change in gastric acid secretion , between basal acid secretion and stimulated acid secretion , that occurred during the first 30 minutes after sham feeding was compared with the change in urine acid output ( DUAO ) over the same period .
6 Wrigley and Schofield have shown that between 1650–99 and 1800–49 the age at first marriage for women fell by 3·1 years ; most of the fall occurred during the second half of the eighteenth century and it was most apparent in industrial communities .
7 The changes in the constellation of European powers which occurred during the eighteenth century had an indirect bearing on the destiny of the South Slav peoples .
8 In conclusion , it is clear that from this examination of the state of weaponry and warfare throughout the reign of Barbarossa , and given that he lived to the age of 70 , he must have experienced many of the gradual changes and improvements in arms and armour that occurred during the twelfth century .
9 The statutory recognition of auditors ' resignation occurred for the first time in the Companies Act 1976 , prior to which resignation would have constituted a de facto breach of contract .
10 It can be seen that there is an initial 20% mortality during the first three months in those randomised to surgery , with virtually no further deaths occurring during the next 24 months .
11 In every case a noticeable increase in measurement occurred between the first and second measurement of each pot .
12 The real evidence of successful integration occurred after the first two weeks .
13 Episodes of intestinal obstruction usually occurred in the first year of operation but in seven patients admission to hospital with obstruction occurred after the first 12 months .
14 And , his answer to that , is that psychoanalysis can give us a very interesting and unique insight into , into religion , and this was an insight which had emerged in the course of , the nineteen twenties , following the developments of psychoanalysis that occurred after the First World War , which we 've already looked at and is essentially the concept of transference .
15 Most complications occurred with the first few procedures when the technique was being developed .
16 To prevent the reactions from occurring in the first place , filtered blood has to be used from the very first transfusion and 99% of white cells have to be removed .
17 Between April 1988 and March 1989 average rents in housing association properties rose by 24 per cent with most of the increases occurring in the first four months of 1989 .
18 Of course , public recognition of the need to introduce a smog alert system may increase awareness that air pollution problems are very serious and that stricter long-term pollution control policies are needed to prevent smogs occurring in the first instance .
19 Make his life as easy as possible when he first starts school to avoid the problem occurring in the first place .
20 The deception , trick or ruse that forms the one essential element in the interaction of the fabliau characters is most frequently an impromptu action , very commonly occurring in the first instance as an example of a native cunning attributed to women , an ingenuity in lying and deceit that women have .
21 The trick is to prevent violence occurring in the first place .
22 A big quake east of the Rocky Mountains — and one greater than magnitude 6 has a 50 to 60 per cent chance of occurring in the next 25 years — could make California 's Loma Prieta seem trifling .
23 Margolis , in a similar study , found that there was an initial build-up of citations which occurred until the third year after publication .
24 One investigation ( Thornes and Collard , 1979 ) found that of all marital separations ( rather than legal divorces ) , 60 per cent occurred before the tenth year of marriage .
25 For example , in 1979 nearly half of all divorces occurred within the first 10 years .
26 Most of the deaths ( 29/42 ) occurred within the first six weeks of the index bleed .
27 Winter visitors disperse quite rapidly in April and May , and little through passage in spring is shown by the counts in Fig. 2 , except in 1973 and 1974 when a marked movement occurred in the second half of February .
28 Clinical deterioration occurred in the first three months of treatment in seven cases .
29 As he had argued in Totem and Taboo , murder occurred in the first human groups , and the prohibition on killing came from the father .
30 The independence of the people 's committees was not ultimately compatible with communist rule in north Korea and problems occurred in the first few months of communist dominance .
  Next page