Example sentences of "setting [adv] [prep] [num] " in BNC.

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1 ( 5 ) Setting down within six months ( see below for the equivalent county court provisions ) .
2 Eventually the desire continually to express concepts in terms of yet more " fundamental " ones led to Peano setting down in 1889 his symbolic and axiomatic description of the set of integers ( in terms of the undefined concepts : set , belongs to , zero , number , successor of ) .
3 Physical decay is setting in at 38 for Duran and 33 for Leonard , yet in the most hazardous of sports they persist , in the fashion of the times , in trying to defy the ageing process .
4 They said they were setting off at nine o'clock as if to go
5 David 's application was successful and along with nine other students he will shortly be setting off for one of eight specially selected Earthwatch projects for two weeks of hard work , learning and fun .
6 Competitors started at staggered times but with the leaders all setting off within three minutes of each other , the competition benefited from an added edge .
7 Gorbachev on Dec. 29 , 1990 , issued two decrees setting up in 1991 an all-union " extra-budgetary economic stabilization fund " , and introducing a sales tax .
8 The iron ore deposits in the Nimba mountains on the border with Côte d'Ivoire and Liberia , which had a 65-70 per cent iron content , were finally to be opened up to exploitation , it was announced in December 1989 [ see p. 35436 for setting up in 1986 of iron ore project ] .
9 Spokesman Steve Parker explained : ‘ Since setting up in 1988 we have started a franchising operation .
10 He found himself stymied by an old oppo of mine when setting out on one of the Bielefeld Viaduct sorties with Tallboys .
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