Example sentences of "[adj] [num] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You divide that by a hundred and twenty , divide they cancel out so it 's so to make one tonne of N A C L you use fifty eight over a hundred and twenty then you just times that by erm hundred and twenty times by two . |
| 2 | Of the seats where Labour is second , there are 31 where it is behind by 5 per cent or less and a further 11 where the Liberal Democrat vote is more than twice the Tory majority and a differential split in Labour 's favour would produce a Labour gain . |
| 3 | For example Hanson Plc ( formerly Hanson Trust ) made two scrip issues during the period 1985 88 when the market price was sustained above 300p . |
| 4 | So it 'd be forty five over a hundred |
| 5 | Er I done the forty five over a hundred , and timesed it . |
| 6 | Even then abolition was not completed until the early 1890s when the number of landless and dispossessed peasants and rural labourers increased dramatically . |
| 7 | Soviet leaders considered Iran 's renunciation of the CENTO Pact in early 1979 when the Shah was overthrown as a seminal event . |
| 8 | The pervading aura of peace was interrupted only in the early 1870s when an army of men carved a railway throughout its length , since when an undisturbed tranquillity has prevailed . |
| 9 | The Broadisland Gathering is turning the clock back to the early 1600s when the area was settled by Scots Lowlanders . |
| 10 | So far we 've seen the highlights of Central News up to the end of nineteen eighty-eight when the programme was broadcast from Birmingham . |
| 11 | From the early 1970s onwards an increasing number of Middle East capital goods importers have demanded bonds ( or guarantees ) from exporters due to the cash or short-term credit nature of their import contracts . |
| 12 | The friction which has always existed between the two camps was made worse in the early 1970s when a number of colleges of art , some of them of considerable distinction , were swallowed up by polytechnics . |
| 13 | In the early 1970s when the idea of JET was first conceived , the best recorded value fell short by a factor of 25 000 ; by 1990 JET was within a factor Of 20 . |
| 14 | We could wear the liberal ‘ scientific ’ pair , as did many young trendy academics during the 1960s and early 1970s when the stars of interactionism and phenomenology were in the ascendant . |
| 15 | Advertising was practically never used , even in the early 1970s when the use of search by companies was much less widespread . |
| 16 | This pattern became further exaggerated in the early 1970s when the cores lost population even more rapidly . |
| 17 | He became a key figure in the early 1970s when the public employment service was modernised and Jobcentres as we know them today were first established . |
| 18 | The third stage would begin in early 1992 when the newly elected Assembly would meet to " enact supplements to the Constitution " . |
| 19 | Space-time is remarkably rigid , so that the amplitude of the strain is only 10 18 when the pulse from a supernova collapse at the centre of the Galaxy reaches the Earth . |
| 20 | From the early 1780s onwards an increasingly elaborate network of agents and informers kept foreigners and even many important figures in the government under surveillance , and from 1782 there was provision for dangerous political prisoners to be held in complete isolation in special underground cells . |
| 21 | Oh they 're talking about the obstetrics of the nineteen eighties not the nineteen nineties . |
| 22 | The story of the creation of the time-scale of magnetic reversals ( the Jaramillo Reve provided the final entry in the time-scale ) goes back to the early 1950s when the scientists at Berkeley perfected the detection accuracy of the potassium/argon method of rock-dating for samples less than a million years old . |
| 23 | The new textbook is the second one to have emerged since the crisis of early 1988 when the authorities announced that school graduation exams in history were being abolished . |
| 24 | Gates had been under pressure to retire since early 1990 when a group of his officers were filmed beating a black motorist Rodney King . |
| 25 | A more recent reappraisal took place in the early 1980s when the decision was taken to shed the foods side of the business and concentrate on the confectionery and soft drinks divisions . |
| 26 | Following in the footsteps of advertising agencies who gained great riches and new respectability when many became publicly quoted companies , public relations as a business " came of age " in the early 1980s when the first consultancy went public on the Unlisted Securities Market . |
| 27 | Moreover it inevitably ran into difficulties and criticism in the early 1980s when the American economy was in serious trouble — with a steep rise in oil prices and no agreement on how to conserve energy , and with inflation , unemployment and interest rates all running at a high level . |
| 28 | In the early 1980s when the policy of overfunding led to persistent money market shortages , the Bank 's bill mountain was criticised from the standpoint that it entailed the Bank acting essentially as a clearing bank , lending to the corporate sector ( albeit indirectly ) via its bill purchases . |
| 29 | The phenomenon of the management buy-out first emerged in Britain in the early 1980s when the economy was in deep recession . |
| 30 | By the early 1980s only a few thousand of the million or so who lived elsewhere in the USSR had been able to return , despite an active campaign on their behalf by dissidents as well as Tatar activists . |