Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For just a moment before the Elbow , it seemed possible that Llewellyn and Party Politics might join the sad company of might-have-beens , for whom the 494 yards of the Aintree run-in have turned dreams into nightmares . |
| 2 | Indeed , most of their problems spring from the fact that for them the two functions are deeply connected . |
| 3 | Between them the two major planks of the strategy had yielded £5,264,500 . |
| 4 | Pat was infinitely available to Alice , helping with painting and cleaning ; between them the two women accomplished miracles , dingy caves being transformed one after another to fresh and lively rooms . |
| 5 | These do not reflect activity from the eyes individually , but between them the two channels will record an eye movement in any direction . |
| 6 | Between them the eight runners had won three races ; they were racing 's cannon fodder . |
| 7 | Between them the four countries have some 144,000 elephants . |
| 8 | Between them the three sons held title to most of Henry II 's kingdom — but title only . |
| 9 | So for me the three points were the Aldershot method er the importance of understanding arousal and the need for audience contact . |
| 10 | So for me the three things were the structured thought patterns plus the arousal and the need for audience contact . |
| 11 | Oh as I sa the part-time job we used to get , two shillings a week and he used to give us tuppence for ourselves the two shillings was for our parents , and the tuppence was supposed to be our pocket money , but er when we 'd finished on a Saturday night if , if there were any stale cakes we 'd all get a bag of stale cakes each you used to make a terrific fuss of those on a Sunday . |
| 12 | After the church service , a reception was held at the Lesser Town Hall , Airdrie after which the one week honeymoon was spent touring Scotland . |
| 13 | He then joined his brother at the Brighton works of the London , Brighton and South Coast Railway from 1871 to 1875 , working under the direction of William Stroudley [ q.v. ] , after which the two brothers moved to the North British Railway works at Cowlairs and in 1882 to the neighbouring works at St Rollox of the Caledonian Railway , where Peter was appointed assistant locomotive engineer and works manager . |
| 14 | The plant had been criticized as being " in very poor condition " by an IAEA inspection in 1991 , after which the two oldest reactors had been shut down [ see pp. 38350-51 ] . |
| 15 | The draft 1991 budget presented by Finance Minister Theo Waigel on Nov. 14 required spending cuts of DM35,000 million ( US$23,645 million ) , after which the 1991 public-sector deficit was still calculated to rise dramatically to DM140,000 million or 5 per cent of GNP . |
| 16 | The airlines then sued the Australian Federation of Air Pilots ( AFAP ) and individual pilots , after which the 1,647 pilots employed by the two companies resigned en masse on Aug. 23 . |
| 17 | The rain having petered out for a while , we all went out to stare at the sunset , about which the two poets made lurid remarks . |
| 18 | They are able to do this because they are formed by a special type of cell division , during which the 46 chromosomes in the body cells of the father and the mother assort into 23 pairs , following which the two members of each pair segregate , so that the resulting germ cells receive only 23 chromosomes . |
| 19 | A crash-landing on the surface of the sea was carried out , during which the one unwounded member of the crew was injured , but all were safely picked up by the destroyer ‘ Camicia Nere ’ . |
| 20 | Now , however , I want to concentrate on the 15 years during which the two of them lived and worked together , and Pollock made a bid to change the course of what was then thought of as modern art . |
| 21 | So it went on for two long hours during which the thousands present learned nothing about Fascism except the bravery and pertinacity of its young adherents in dealing with this very perilous situation . " |
| 22 | He would be the means through which the Seven would be destroyed ; not as Berdichev had imagined , from without , but from within . |
| 23 | He could just make out the greens , the fairways and the dunes through which the three dozen surviving professionals would toil tomorrow in search of their own Golden Fleece . |
| 24 | It even contains advice on the avoidance of wake turbulence and on glider- or banner-towing , for which the 207 can be equipped with a hook/release mechanism . |
| 25 | The smaller the change the longer is the time for which the two solutions remain close , but they never do so indefinitely . |
| 26 | This , perhaps , made us feel that here in this sunlit place serenity bore a deeper meaning , it was the peace for which the thousands lying here had given their lives . |
| 27 | Of course , the price and income range varied , and so with it did the ‘ life-style ’ — a term for which the Fifties were still groping . |
| 28 | For the current purpose , demonstrating that they were different is sufficient to illustrate two main points : that understanding a place involves uncovering the multivariate and inter-related nature of its culture , for which the three components of the schema in chapter 3 provide a valuable framework ; and that without understanding the nature of a place in all its complexity , it is difficult to appreciate what happens there during particular events — simple , monocausal explanations ( often located in the sphere of production ) are usually insufficient . |
| 29 | In his Liber Revelationum , Book I , chapter 6 , he gives some account of his father 's character , and he relates stories concerning his grandfather Ailsi and his uncles , Jordan 's brothers , of whom the two eldest , Bernard and Nicholas , were scriptores in the royal chapel in the time of Henry I. Peter also mentions his kinship by marriage to Reginald de Dunstanvill , Earl of Cornwall ; whence it has been conjectured that Peter 's mother was a sister of the earl 's wife , Beatrice , daughter of William Fitz Richard of Cardinan , the most important of the local nobility . |
| 30 | Got two of them the one that , that pushes one round . |