Example sentences of "[verb] in the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baghoomian organised Basquiat 's last show in New York , and after Basquiat died of a drug overdose in the spring of 1988 , just a few months after that show closed , Baghoomian claimed a fifty percent share of all the works in Basquiat 's estate , numbering in the hundreds . |
| 2 | The crowds , eventually numbering in the thousands , evolved into a spontaneous anti-war demonstration and headed across town , disrupting traffic while shouting ‘ No blood for oil ’ and finally rallying at the United Nations building . |
| 3 | Maloney said he and Lewis were having ‘ serious discussions ’ — in other words , a row — over Lewis 's tunnel-visioned determination to force the man he beat in the 1988 Olympic final back into the ring next April . |
| 4 | Maloney said he and Lewis were having ‘ serious discussions ’ over Lewis 's determination to force the man he beat in the 1988 Olympic final back into the ring next April . |
| 5 | Whom did David Steel beat in the 1975 Liberal leadership contest ? |
| 6 | The railway tracks were lifted in the 1960s , and the bridge fell into disuse . |
| 7 | — Designed in the 1840s by Sir Charles Barry ( architect of the Houses of Parliament ) the Terrace , with its distinctive Italianate garden , provides a spectacular view over the lake and Capability Brown 's undulating landscape . |
| 8 | Or take the black cab , designed in the 1950s . |
| 9 | He retired to the striking hill-top house ( in Monkton Deverill , Wiltshire ) he had designed in the 1930s , its style reminiscent of seventeenth-century France . |
| 10 | Sex equality slipped far down the political agenda and women had to fight hard to retain the rights they had won in the 1960s and 1970s on abortion , welfare benefits , maternity and employment rights . |
| 11 | Coventry , who have not won in the three matches Regis has missed with a calf-muscle injury , trail 3-1 from the first leg , but Drinkell was optimistic , saying : ‘ It 's not irretrievable . |
| 12 | Gastrin mediated acid secretion did not fall in the one patient whose infection was not eradicated ( Fig 2B ) . |
| 13 | The key to the agreement lies in the two SNA/OSI standards points . |
| 14 | Well the answer lies in the twelve hours of negotiation that took place yesterday . |
| 15 | The real interest of the Rousset manuscript lies in the ten unknown pieces unknown , at least , to me . |
| 16 | We are improving both the quality and the quantity of our training and we are improving and creating the skills that our people will need in the 1990s . |
| 17 | Most of these were dispersed in the 1920s : Lord Amherst 's large Egyptian collection was sold at Sotheby 's in 1921 , many pieces being bought by American museums , while Lord Carnarvon sold his collection to the Metropolitan Museum in 1926 for $145,000 ( after teasing the British Museum with a phoney offer ) . |
| 18 | In the intervening years it is estimated that 111 died while trying to escape and a further 77 lost their lives on the Berlin Wall itself , with most of these deaths occurring in the 1960s . |
| 19 | In the case of the structural changes occurring in the 1970s/1980s the UK 's crossroads was not characterized only by computerization , information technology and the new machinery and new products that have arisen . |
| 20 | The Fiction adds a little to one 's understanding of what he was becoming in the eighteen months immediately before his courtship of Helen Noble . |
| 21 | Scottish striker Cook , Coleraine 's top scorer with 19 goals last season , was angry at being substituted in the 3-2 defeat by Glentoran last Saturday and spoke his mind . |
| 22 | In any technical comment you make , please remember that a former editor made a passionate technical plea for the retention of 405 lines but failed to realise the commercial advantages which had then already accrued in the 625 line camp . |
| 23 | For male workers , however , employment was rapidly increasing in the areas of electrical appliances , transportation and furniture which first appear in the 1965 census as well as metal products and some of the areas traditionally open to women — chemicals , paper and rubber ( Chinchilla 1977 ) . |
| 24 | The first plans definitely showing the site in use as a foundry appear in the 1820s . |
| 25 | Half the active substances used for rheumatic conditions also appear in the 100 or so painkilling preparations available . |
| 26 | I made it clear in my 1985 Opus article and in my 1988 Early music article 3 that ‘ Metronome marks for the slower minuets also appear in the twelve earlier Mozart symphonies Czerny edited . ’ |
| 27 | Veneers appear in the 1880s although an eighteenth-century example was discovered during the 1983–4 excavations at St Augustine-the-Less , Bristol , but this might have been no more than an attempt on the part of the coffin-maker to mask some splits at the shoulder caused by over-zealous saw-cuts when kerfing . |
| 28 | Also expected in the 68000 complex instruction set family of microprocessors is a 250 to 350 MIPS 68080 due by 1995 and an 800 MIPS — probably the 68100 — by the year 2000 . |
| 29 | It is difficult to fit the two together , and to know which visits in the two books correspond . |
| 30 | " The cabinet diplomacy at which ( Bismarck ) excelled in the 1860s was no longer possible in the 1880s ; public opinion was beginning to influence policy making it impossible to turn friendships on and off at will . " |