Example sentences of "to [num] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within marriage the most important change experienced by women was the steady decline in the fertility rate until after World War II ( Table 2 ) , while in the 1870s there were over 295 legitimate live births per 1000 married women aged 15–44 , this figure had dropped to 222 by the first decade of the twentieth century and to only 111 by the 1930s . |
| 2 | Sandy Lane , we 're now erm , we 're down to eleven of the eighteen units occupied at Sandy Lane . |
| 3 | The 69 amino acids POU-specific domain ( POU S ) is located at positions 454 to 522 in the derived protein sequence and is separated from the 60 amino acids POU homeo domain ( POU HD ) ( positions 542 to 600 , defined according to Laughton ( 22 ) ) by a 20 amino acids linker sequence . |
| 4 | The sole legal political party , the National Union for Independence and the Revolution ( Union nationale pour l'independance et la revolution-UNIR ) , was set up by Habre in 1984 ; in line with Habre 's " national reconciliation " policy , several former opponents of his regime were brought into the UNIR central committee when the membership of this body was expanded from 80 to 120 at the second UNIR national congress on Nov. 23-26 , 1988 . |
| 5 | Since the Scottish Council 's involvement in April 1989 in the Mini Enterprises in Schools Project ( MESP ) , the number of schools which participated in the project has more than doubled to 168 in the academic year ended 1989/90 . |
| 6 | For example , between 1980 and 1990 the average advance to income ratio for first-time buyers rose from 1.67 to 2.19 , while the average percentage advance to first-time buyers rose from 73.8 to 82.5 over the same period . |
| 7 | The shareholders are treated as having received a distribution of £100 on which tax of £20 has been paid and , assuming they will be liable for income tax at the higher rate , will have a further £20 of income tax to pay ( see s14 TA 1988 and sections 77 to 79 of the 1993 Finance Act ) . |
| 8 | At its height Baring Securities generated up to two-thirds of the privately-owned merchant bank 's profits and in 1988 won a Queen 's Award for Export . |
| 9 | That is being helped by the change in the turkey processing market in the past 15 years or so which has led to two-thirds of the national output , worth a total of £300 million a year , being eaten in portion and added value form . |
| 10 | In spite of the decline in the number of average basic hours per week for manual workers from 46 in 1946 to 40 in 1970 , the number of average actual hours which include overtime , declined only by one hour from 47½ to 46½ during the same period . |
| 11 | We checked as far as possible the information for the cases listed in tables 2.1 to 2.4 of the Black report ; in table III cross references are given to the cases listed in these tables of the Black report and , when necessary , the information has been corrected . |
| 12 | Sutton Coldfield fought back to 2–2 in the 57th minute , but England striker Tina Cullen made the game safe . |
| 13 | Since the Scottish Council 's involvement in April 1989 in the Mini Enterprise in Schools Project Scotland ( MESP ) , the number of secondary schools participating in the scheme has increased to 212 in the academic year ended 1990/91 . |
| 14 | The local council in Yokohama hopes to increase the number of these trucks to 30 in the near future . |
| 15 | However , the key quarterly average has dropped and is down to 33,700 over the three months to March . |
| 16 | A good victory was secured at Allander , winning by 4 goals to 2 in the first league match in November . |
| 17 | Bemac 's workforce has fallen from 215 to 140 in the past year and now the firm has appointed a consultant to advise on the restructuring of the company . |
| 18 | As a result of improved reporting of unfit conduct by Official Receivers and insolvency practitioners , the number rose by 40% to 700 in the 12 months to 31 March 1992 . |
| 19 | He believes that up to 300 of the 2,000 priests who threatened to leave will actually do so . |
| 20 | Articles Twenty-Nine to Thirty-One of the Thirty-Nine Articles denied transubstantiation but were ambiguous about the real presence , while the 1559 Prayer Book combined the formula used in 1549 to imply a physical presence with that of 1552 which was meant to indicate commemoration only . |
| 21 | Peter Monteith 's gallant campaigner ran unplaced on the Flat at Ayr just 48 hours previously but , though still to score on the level , he has now amassed four hurdle wins in addition to 12 over the bigger obstacles . |
| 22 | On April 7th 1855 , Charles Edward Prior MD , was elected by 29 votes to 12 on the second round of voting , and remained in post until June 1st 1900 ; he and his successor , Dr. Goldsmith , kept medical report books , the earliest survivor of which begins in February 1873 . |
| 23 | This winter these perils have led to 12 of the main teams mounting more than 90 rescues , mainly since the start of the year , of which one-third were judged as serious incidents . |
| 24 | FIS deputies were elected to 188 of the 231 seats in which the there was an outright winner . |
| 25 | The average ward population is 9488 ( Table 5.1 ) and so the RMS errors are comparatively small ( the range of RMS errors is from 815.13 for the Shotgun ordinary least squares ( OLS ) to 1035.29 for the Simple Poisson ) . |
| 26 | To their great credit , Romania looked far from demoralised on the field , driving the Scots on to the back foot for much of the first half and restricting the scoreline to 3-0 until the 39th minute . |
| 27 | Pulse rates , which stood at 70 to 80 before that moment in the bar , and rose to 90 to 100 during the earlier phases of arousal , now stand at around 130 . |
| 28 | Ltd. an action brought by the local authority under s.100 to obtain the abatement of obnoxious odours , raised the defence of best practicable means , and Brabin , J. in his judgement said obiter , ‘ I do not find the meaning of sections 92 to 100 of the 1936 Act ambiguous . |
| 29 | Finally , it must be remembered that where odour nuisance arises from outside the workplace , affecting employees inside the workplace , for example from a nearby factory or due to manure spreading in the surrounding fields , then sections 92 to 100 of the Public Health Act 1936 will apply should the odour amount to a statutory nuisance , since the Local Government ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1982 amended s.92(1) ( d ) of the Public Health Act 1936 to ‘ any dust or effluvia caused by a trade , business or manufacture or process which are prejudicial to health or a nuisance ’ deleting the words [ to the inhabitants of the neighbourhood ] . |
| 30 | Road deaths increased in the UK by six percent to 1250 in the second quarter of 1990 compared to the same period for last year . |