Example sentences of "and [vb past] [verb] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plan therefore built on the proposals put forward in 1937 by Sir Charles Bressey and Sir Edwin Lutyens for London 's traffic , and proposed to add to the two already partly-built outer ring roads ( the North and South Orbital and the North and South Circular ) with two corresponding inner rings — ‘ the fast traffic ring-road an |
| 2 | Then it was presented with a list of terminal patients and had to skim off the 25 per cent who would be okayed for resurrection . |
| 3 | After the mid-1970s , however , the proportion of local spending funded by central grants fell sharply , and continued to fall into the 1980s . |
| 4 | The incidence of crowd misbehaviour reached a high point before the First World War , fell between the two World Wars , and continued to fall until the late-1950s , since when it continued to increase quite rapidly ( Dunning et al. , 1982 ; 1984 ) . |
| 5 | The statement is truer of lines than individual stations since average journey lengths are much longer , and continued to increase during the eighties . |