Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defence budget amounted to 35,062 million koruna in 1989 and was expected to amount to 31,180 million koruna in 1990 , or 23.6 per cent of overall government expenditure . |
| 2 | Moreover , as the University validates the Normal College 's courses , it would seem to us that whatever the pros and cons of retaining a local authority based teacher-training institution in Gwynedd , a much more sensible long-term solution would have been to integrate both the Normal College and St Mary 's College into the University College of North Wales when that opportunity arose after 1974 . |
| 3 | Nine out of ten of the users known to each agency lived with one or more adults , and the majority lived with one or more children . |
| 4 | The damage amounted to two hundred and fifty pounds . |
| 5 | Ahead of you as you walk along the length of the piazza is the Casa del Manzoni , Manzoni 's house , a fine nineteenth century building in which the writer lived from 1813 until his death on 22 May 1873 . |
| 6 | Thus , the 1784 election led to 17 unbroken years of Pitt as prime minister ; after the First World War the coalition stayed on in name but the Conservatives won 335 seats in 1918 ; Churchill 's Great Coalition presaged the Labour landslide of 1945 and the iniquities of the Lib-Lab Pact were a major factor in Mrs Thatcher 's victory in 1979 . |
| 7 | A Soviet writer argued in 1979 that the growing participation of Latin American states in the Non-Aligned Movement directly affected the character of relations in the inter-American system and set the question of its ‘ basic restructuring ’ on the agenda . |
| 8 | On 9 January 1872 the Minute Book kept by the clerk now called Registrar , recorded the commitment of Richard Piper sued by Henry Pierpoint for 5s ( money lent on 14 November 1871 ) . |
| 9 | At the 28th such board meeting , in February 1989 , the age of those present ranged from 26 to 49 , with an average age of 37 . |
| 10 | Sigmoidoscopic remission occurred in 20 of 32 patients in the 5-ASA group and 15 of 31 patients given bismuth ( ) . |
| 11 | Similarly the Fine Gael/Labour opposition vote fell from 51.1 in 1969 to 48.8 in 1973 , whilst its PS rose from 47.2 to 51.1 . |
| 12 | The number who cited defence as ‘ extremely important ’ for their voting decision rose from 42 per cent at the start to only 49 per cent in the third week and then it also stabilized at that level . |
| 13 | They really do n't seem to want to have that part closed off but that part along by the river and that seemed to be almost entirely er satisfactory to everybody and er Chairman fenced off one or two other people quite well . |
| 14 | ( In the same period , the FT-SE 100 index rose from 1,713 to 2,715 . ) |
| 15 | For low-income families , the urban consumer price index rose from 203 in 1980 to 733 in 1986 ; for the high-income group the figures were respectively 189 and 644 . |
| 16 | The Pearl Investor Confidence Index rose by 1.2 p.c. last month — its largest rise since August last year — to stand at its highest level since December . |
| 17 | The consumer price index rose by 17 per cent in the first 11 months of 1989 compared with 16.7 per cent in the whole of 1988 . |
| 18 | Between 1967 and 1980 the Consumer Price Index rose by 67 per cent , whereas during the same period campaign expenditures for House elections rose by 163 per cent and by 150 per cent for elections to the Senate . |
| 19 | Between the surrender and December 1948 the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce retail price index rose by 4000 per cent and it is estimated that black market prices increased at double this rate . |
| 20 | The actual outcome was that in the twelve months ending in December 1986 the money supply rose by 109 per cent ( the highest on record ) and the cost-of-living index rose by 90 per cent . |
| 21 | Regular smoking ranged from 1 per cent of 10 year olds to 30 per cent of 15 year olds . |
| 22 | They threatened him with a claw hammer , but he stood his ground , and the gang fled in 2 stolen cars . |
| 23 | The ratio of per capita debt to per capita income rose from 19.7 in 1973 to a record high of 162.7 in 1985/86 . |
| 24 | So , in this example , although money national income rose by 100 per cent , real output per capita rose by only 25 per cent . |
| 25 | Underwriting losses more than halved to £259 million and investment income rose by 20 per cent to £210 million . |
| 26 | It added that national income rose by 1.9 per cent in 1989 as against 4.4 per cent in 1988 [ see p. 37020 ] . |
| 27 | Between 1970–71 and 1980–81 , per capita income rose by 143 per cent , and the wholesale prices of all commodities rose by 150 per cent . |
| 28 | Contamination occurred in 26 of the 109 cases in which I used diathermy . |
| 29 | Radioactive contamination occurred in one , in 1964 , but Nasa says it was designed to — a policy which has been changed . |
| 30 | I performed 39 procedures without diathermy , and contamination occurred in four . |