Example sentences of "the [num] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a child of the Thirties I heard much talk of J.P.M. and Fred Shaw ( the NCLC Organiser ) , Plebs and the Railway Service Journal — and the Manchester Guardian — were as much a part of my youthful literary life as Mickey Mouse and Film Fun . |
| 2 | During the nineteen-twenties she spent some time in London , and after her second husband , Maurice Platner , died in 1929 she moved to Johannesburg , where she died in 1932 . |
| 3 | ‘ With the advent of TV in the Fifties you got lots of kids ' badges , while in the Sixties they grew larger and more colourful , and in the Seventies you had weird punk badges . ’ |
| 4 | In fact , Kitty was the only one of the three who had enough time off during the day to help out on the barrow , but as she never got up until the sun rose and slipped away long before it had set , she still was n't what Granpa would have called an asset . |
| 5 | I was the only one of the three who had any confidence in Burmese , and so was able to be bilingual in teaching and in giving notes . |
| 6 | During the 1940s he directed many films for and British National . |
| 7 | Throughout the 1690s he advanced substantial sums through various channels . |
| 8 | Oncogenic human papillomavirus was found in the cervix of 26 ( 41% ) of the 63 women who did not smoke , 22 ( 58% ) of the 38 who smoked 1–10 cigarettes a day , 28 ( 61% ) of the 46 who smoked 11–20 cigarettes a day , and 26 ( 76% ) of the 34 who smoked >=21; cigarettes a day . |
| 9 | The internationalisation of Arab banking was encouraged by the oil price rises of the 1970s which generated large petro-dollar surpluses for a number of Persian Gulf states . |
| 10 | By the 1780s it had twelve employees ; and complaints against its interference with the correspondence of private citizens figured in a number of the cahiers presented to the States-General in 1789 . |
| 11 | What is certain , however , is that around the tail end of the '80s he met fellow Skin victim Jarboe , signed their other band Swans to a disastrous one-album major deal and cheered up . |
| 12 | What is certain , however , is that around the tail end of the '80s he met fellow Skin victim Jarboe , signed their other band Swans to a disastrous one-album major deal and cheered up . |
| 13 | So far 500 individuals are seeking to become members , compared with the 970 who joined last year , and the 2,572 who joined in 1987 . |
| 14 | Dressed up in his fireproof overalls , he was certainly going to earn some of the millions he made this morning . |
| 15 | Among the millions who die each year through malnutrition there are many children of the Kingdom . |
| 16 | Oncogenic human papillomavirus was found in the cervix of 26 ( 41% ) of the 63 women who did not smoke , 22 ( 58% ) of the 38 who smoked 1–10 cigarettes a day , 28 ( 61% ) of the 46 who smoked 11–20 cigarettes a day , and 26 ( 76% ) of the 34 who smoked >=21; cigarettes a day . |
| 17 | In general , the giver of a monetary gift ranks higher than the receiver , but , as between two receivers , the one who receives more ranks higher than the one who receives less . |
| 18 | Perhaps he 'll come again tomorrow and then we could put a star for 3 , and the one who gets most stars , wins . ’ |
| 19 | Around 78 per cent were under 45 , and even in Cornwall fewer than 1,000 of the 13,000 who migrated last year were of retirement age . |
| 20 | In Edward III 's wars in Scotland in the 1330s he made great use of hobelars and mounted archers who were paid more and required more expensive equipment than foot soldiers . |
| 21 | The 91 patients in Soutar & Wilson 's study were asked their opinion about the effect of noise on sleep and of the 28 who admitted that sleep was more difficult in hospital than at home , only 9 said it was because of the noise . |
| 22 | The IVL report was based on a sample of 1,854 students , or one in 14 of the 14,000 who graduated this year . |
| 23 | The IVL report was based on a sample of 1,854 students , or one in 14 of the 14,000 who graduated this year . |
| 24 | The difference between the two he calls transitory income ( Y T ) . |
| 25 | Soon after the discovery of the ‘ battered baby syndrome ’ in the 1960s there seemed considerable optimism amongst health and welfare professionals that such efforts would be effective . |
| 26 | Initially , Barlaston had been put to a series of uses by Wedgwood ( and had been leased to the Bank of England during the Second World War ) , but in the 1950s it developed dry rot and become an embarrassment to the company . |
| 27 | During the 1980s it bought Marine Midland , a commercial bank based in upstate New York ; Carroll , McEntee & McGinley ( CM&M ) , a primary dealer in American Treasury bonds ; and James Capel , a London firm of stockbrokers . |
| 28 | Of seventy-four listed ports in 1772 , 59 had less than 500 registered tons active in foreign trade , while the seven who exceeded 10,000 tons accounted for 81.7 per cent of the total . |