Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The break-in happened between 6.30 and 10.30pm on Thursday night but so far no witnesses have come forward to give more information about the exact time of the raid . |
| 2 | The Zuwaya image seems correct : there was no internal sovereign power , at any rate up to about 1875 or so . |
| 3 | There could be all the difference in the world between 500 and about 500 , and it 's important to know the margins of tolerance a person is using in order to interpret them . |
| 4 | SunSoft holds quarterly DOE non-disclosure updates for 75 or more independent software vendors under the auspices of a Distributed Object Council , and has up to 100 engineers working on object stuff . |
| 5 | Excavations , nine miles south-west of the city , have revealed the rich graves of a pagan Anglian cemetery in use between 550 and 630AD . |
| 6 | That any pricing system adopted recognises the budgetary context as indicated both by the size of DSS transfer and placement rates for 1993/94 but also the inflationary pressures inherent in the adoption of explicit ceilings to which prices may converge . |
| 7 | Table 5 is derived from two separate sources , so the figures for the years up to 1960 are not strictly comparable with those for 1971 and after . |
| 8 | The net effect leaves revenue forecasts unchanged for 1993 but sharply increased by 2003 as rail traffic rises on the completion of high speed links . |
| 9 | The success of the symposium may be measured by the invitation from our Polish colleagues for 1993 and also , in the Development Centre , the implementation of techniques taught last year and reinforced by the June exchange visit . |
| 10 | The projection for 1993 and onwards is that they will only have one of the top eight and three of the top 14 . |
| 11 | There is no doubt , however , that the programme envisaged for 1993 and beyond is more coherent , better balanced and better attuned to the realities of a professional game which is increasingly dependent on the success or failure of the England team . |
| 12 | ‘ Clearly , we are not going to rewrite the Manifesto , but our strategy for 1993 and beyond will be thrashed out by Council in the light of the responses and the priorities that they identify . ’ |
| 13 | Delegates could contribute valuable insight and comment based on their own experiences and expertise , and this went a long way towards creating LASMO 's HSE blueprint for 1993 and beyond . |
| 14 | We can not ignore that growth , if only because the machinery and procedures adequate to manage 5,000 are entirely inappropriate for 50,000 and more . |
| 15 | Although many economists would argue that capital gains , as for example when ICI shares are purchased for 2 and subsequently sold for 3 , are as much income as the dividend component of the return on an asset , in practice the Inland Revenue assesses and taxes capital gains separately . |
| 16 | Between 1985 and early this year , the krona lost about 25% against the D-mark . |
| 17 | This year 's show takes place on Saturday 31 August between 2 and 4.30pm , but do n't hang about — at 6pm sharp the Over 60 's Karate and Flower Arranging Class takes over , or so I 'm told . |
| 18 | As for the claim that the older acts and the common law had allowed the imposition of harsher penalties , this was not for the simple fact of combination but for activities linked with industrial disputes that could have attracted prosecution for riot , intimidation , assault or destruction of property as much after 1799 as before . |
| 19 | Though this is probably fanciful and certainly without basis in contemporary record , Jaenberht 's alienation from Offa may have been very real , because of the suppression of Kentish independence after 784–5 and now the partition of his province . |
| 20 | Indeed , David Underdown has argued that rural sports and recreations became more common after 1660 than ever before . |
| 21 | But the question which began to be asked more often after 1962 than before was : were the costs worth it ? |
| 22 | After 1360 and more particularly in the 1370s the war went badly for England . |
| 23 | ‘ Many companies are placing their main focus on the opportunities for intro-European trading after 1992 and rightly so . |
| 24 | He did not resume his role as a major lender until after 1689 but meanwhile he had blossomed into a Kentish landowner and re-entered Parliament . |
| 25 | Not only did diplomatic services grow slowly in size : there was also none of the inflation of titles and wholesale upgrading of missions which was to develop after 1918 and still more after 1945 . |
| 26 | If a list of set books had been included in the Statutory Orders , it is easy to imagine how after ten or so years teachers would be desperately trying to change it , with old-fashioned Members of Parliament resisting in lively debates . |
| 27 | An hour is , e.g. divided into sixty minutes , the second into sixty parts and so on ; at last after ten or more successive divisions by sixty , time-elements are obtained which are not subjected to division , and in fact are indivisible . ’ |
| 28 | Just after nine or so , I suppose . |
| 29 | More young people are staying on after 16 than ever before . |
| 30 | Popular participation in electoral politics began to flag after 1951 but arguably this was because most people felt less urgency as regards political change ; there was no strong and deep-going popular reaction against the government . |