Example sentences of "[noun pl] set in [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite recently Jack , my mother and I went to see a film called Enemies : A Love Story , a story of three Holocaust survivors set in 1940s New York . |
| 2 | Gordon Richards , champion jockey twenty-six times between 1925 and 1952 , surpassed Fred Archer 's annual record of 246 winners set in 1885 with 259 in 1933 and then 269 in 1947 . |
| 3 | First , it legitimized retrospectively the grant penalties associated with targets set in 1981/2 and 1982/3 and set out the context in which expenditure guidance or targets could be issued in future years . |
| 4 | ‘ The questions set in 1993 will be seen to begin the gradual transition of style towards the 1994 papers . |
| 5 | Rayner Heppenstall , in The Connecting Door ( 1962 ) , establishes two different eras in which his characters exist simultaneously , and , in a later novel , Two Moons ( 1977 ) , concurrently sustains stories set in two different months , one appearing on all the left-hand pages of the novel , the other on the right . |
| 6 | This has a total of nine teeth set in three rows , and could well have come from a lock fitted to the door of a villa . |
| 7 | Thirty miles away , Wroxham Barns has a collection of traditional 18th-century working barns set in ten acres of parkland . |
| 8 | 12 buildings all with displays set in 2½ acres , including the oldest photographic studio in the country . |
| 9 | Ruling that the UK had breached international agreements , the judges dismissed the British government 's contention that it had not had enough time to meet standards set in 1975 . |
| 10 | Roy Hankin of Sheffield won in 4 hours , 29 minutes and 31 seconds , 15 minutes faster than his time the previous year , beating Bradford 's Melvyn McCann into second place , but not breaking McCann 's record time of 4 hours , 25 minutes and 53 seconds set in 1984 . |
| 11 | The bars admit to standing room only ( early birds perch on stools ) , and the extensive lounges with their arm chairs set in fours soon fill to capacity . |