Example sentences of "and [verb] [conj] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | It was a simple , but very pertinent observation and re-emphasised that over the last 18 months or so the All Blacks have been steadily squeezed in the nutcracker of their own ambition . |
2 | William Dement woke six subjects in this systematic way over a period of six nights , and found that on the first night they did seem to " start all over again " whenever properly woken , so that by the end of the night they had achieved a good deal of slow wave sleep and very little REM sleep . |
3 | He then crossed together members of the first generation , and found that in the second generation tall and short peas occurred in the ratio 3 tall : 1 short . |
4 | This was a formidable catalogue of sins , but many of the ideas became generally accepted and to some extent underlay Mr Wilson 's thinking in 1963 when he talked of the Conservatives ' period in power since 1951 as ‘ thirteen wasted years ’ and promised that in the first hundred days of dynamic government after a Labour victory at the polls a new atmosphere would pervade Whitehall . |
5 | She now does yoga , and says that for the first time in her life she wakes up feeling calm and generally finds that thinking positively works . |
6 | Dataquest notes that 1992 was the first year in which each of the five top workstation vendors offered RISC-based workstations for under $10,000 and says that in the third quarter more than 60% of the boxes going out the door were priced under $15,000 . |
7 | The population reconstructions of Wrigley and Schofield ( 1981 ) support them and indicate that from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries fertility change was about twice as important as mortality in accounting for variations in population growth , and that declines in mortality were modest until the mid-nineteenth century . |
8 | So to the middle-aged man who came up to me in the car park and confessed that in the fifth form he had been silently in love with me — why did n't he say so at the time ? |
9 | He pointed to a ‘ desperate need to educate the population better ’ and said that in the first half of the Eighties the engineering workforce fell by a third and the number of graduates employed increased by half . |
10 | The Provence seems to have been Miller 's favourite type of rose ; he frequently stressed its outstanding fragrance , an important consideration in the flower garden , and said that by the mid-eighteenth century it had become the most widely propagated of any kind . |
11 | He played his first match at the age of 17 for Gloucester in 1920 and continued until after the Second World War . |