Example sentences of "as they [vb past] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as they walked around the 230 acre farm , all of it in the extended Less Favoured Areas , they were able to see at first hand why Hume Stewart-Moore and his son Michael were so successful . |
| 2 | In the War , distribution expenditure had been running at only a fifth of the prewar level , and the plans prepared by the undertakings for the Electricity Commissioners show they expected to continue to spend more than half of all their capital on developing distribution , as they had in the 1930s . |
| 3 | Stone recurrences in five patients are believed to be the result of residual stones as they reformed by the six month follow up examination and each of the post procedure contrast studies had shown a filling defect in the neck of the gall bladder or cystic duct . |
| 4 | ‘ They 'd care as little about him as they cared about the two bombers who died in the van . ’ |
| 5 | The distinctive features of concentration , conglomeration and internationalization as they developed into the 1980s can perhaps be described as their scope , scale , management , balance and volatility . |
| 6 | As they passed between the two pillars along the path by which they had entered , the Wheel cleared with plenty of room to spare . |
| 7 | Less than a mile to go as they pinged over the three obstacles set close together at the far end of the back straight , and Mill House was ail of three lengths ahead : as they stretched out round the long sweeping turn towards the Pond Fence , the third from home , it really seemed as if he was at last going to take his revenge on Arkle . |
| 8 | But although he might not be bright , Balor 's head was on a level with Floy and Snodgrass as they sat astride the two horses and he was twice the size of either of them . |
| 9 | He feels that , for such an important event , countries should have a day 's rest between their games , as they did at the 1986 World Cup in London , where England lost in the final to Australia . |
| 10 | He feels that , for such an important event , countries should have a day 's rest between their games , as they did at the 1986 World Cup in London , where England lost in the final to Australia . |
| 11 | That coterie would also act , as they did for the 1991 event , very much as a think tank . |
| 12 | In total , mergers did not occur on quite the same scale as they did in the 1920s — which was equivalent to something like one-third of all firms in manufacturing going out of existence — but they caused the loss of an equivalent of a quarter of all firms . |
| 13 | However , with Britain deep in recession and more than three million unemployed , some people doubt if the firemen can carry the weight of public sympathy as they did in the 1970s . |
| 14 | Indeed , Opposition Members did nothing to clear up the uncertainties about the huge expenditure on which they would have to embark to renationalise these industries before messing them up again as they did in the 1970s when they were under national control . |
| 15 | Highly suspicious of Japan 's motives , the students referred to their militarism and ability to bring China to its knees as they did in the 1930s . |
| 16 | Some said they had seen the quizzical , grey-whiskered faces staring up at them as they crouched on the two boards above the refuse pit , peering at the nervous men from beside the walls of the cubicles and showing no apprehension . |