Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the authors lived in St Helens for the last three weeks of the strike , becoming as immersed as possible in all aspects of the activities of the strike committee . |
| 2 | Many of the best women tennis players from home and abroad will be competing in Swindon for the next 7 days . |
| 3 | The Art Master , Mr. J.T. Stanley , had led archaeological digs to Bakewell for the Sixth Form and organized his first foreign visit to the Pyrenees . |
| 4 | TUESDAY , November 3 , was an historic day for the Diocese when Pope John Paul II appointed Bishop Crowley as the Sixth Bishop of Middlesbrough Diocese . |
| 5 | Unacknowledged , it 's been that way for several years , as we have regularly tried to point out here as others wrongly gave the crown to Digital Equipment Corp , but both the Wall Street Journal and Datamation magazine have at last come round to agreeing that Fujitsu Ltd is the world 's second-largest computer company — with NEC Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co both now challenging DEC for the third place . |
| 6 | Maggie was called to see Mr Parnham during the next morning and it came as a great surprise . |
| 7 | Britain 's fight for better budgeting terms dominated much of the debate within the EEC for the first ten years of British membership , masking the more important questions of sovereignty and Federalism . |
| 8 | Other spellings — Kyese , Keise , Keese — are known to have been recorded in the shires of Gloucester , Worcester and Hereford during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , but today only the style Keyse is found in that area , and Kease appears nowhere except in the author 's own ancestral bloodline . |
| 9 | The following morning , after dropping Iris at Les Châtaigniers for the second day of her course , Melissa returned to the auberge and telephoned Antoinette Gebrec . |
| 10 | Commenting on its figures ( see page five ) , Eschborn , Germany-based Linotype AG says its 1992 domestic orders fell by 6% but the company enjoyed solid gains in key foreign markets , with the US up 18% , Japan up 24% and the Middle and Far East showing gains of between 15% and 49% ; the US market surpassed Germany for the first time , and exports at the computerised printing systems and equipment company accounted for 72.1% of overall business in 1992 after 69.1% a year earlier . |
| 11 | After that , he flies to Paris for a meeting with the French President , then on to Germany for the first historic conference with the heads of all the NATO , European Community and Warsaw Pact countries . |
| 12 | Clearly , we have made great progress in bringing inflation under control and we shall soon have a lower rate of inflation than Germany for the first time in a generation . |
| 13 | Kohl , in eastern Germany for the first time since the December 1990 general election , was jeered and pelted with eggs by several hundred protesters on April 7 in Erfurt ( where enthusiastic crowds of over 100,000 had greeted him on his last visit in February 1990 — see p. 37260 ) . |
| 14 | And yesterday it emerged that Britain 's inflation rate of 4.1pc had fallen below that of Germany for the first time in 25 years . |
| 15 | In 1967 too the Warsaw Pact states declared that West Germany should recognise East Germany as the first step to meaningful détente but Brandt could not yet go so far : most West Germans still hoped for the reunification of Germany . |
| 16 | Although the Soviet Union had become the major influence on revolutionary socialist movements since 1917 , the Communist International had always looked upon Germany as the next most likely centre for a proletarian revolution . |
| 17 | Burco Ltd produces and sells two products : X and Y. During the last year 700 labour hours were worked and the operating results were as follows : |
| 18 | In it he arrived , among many other discoveries , at the law of inertia later used by Isaac Newton as the first law of motion , at the parabola as the path of a projectile , at the relationships between distance and velocity and between distance and time , and at the continuity of acceleration . |
| 19 | Ernst Richter was the latest recruit from the academy , having arrived the previous day , and he had been assigned to work with Mauer for the first month so that his temperament and personality could be assessed to ensure that later on he would be paired with the right partner . |
| 20 | Following negotiations between the members of the ruling coalition , Franco Carraro was elected in mid-December as the first Socialist mayor of the city . |
| 21 | He looked to West Germany for support , holding two meetings with Konrad Adenauer during the second half of 1958 . |
| 22 | His two goals helped Vale beat local rivals Stoke for the first time since 1956 and for the first time ever in the FA Cup . |
| 23 | In each of the last four games there 's been speculation that Lou Macari was taking charge of Stoke for the last time . |
| 24 | ‘ The square on the hypotenuse , ’ said Percy Makepeace for the tenth time . |
| 25 | Then it was Irons who set up Aldridge for the third with a superb pass form inside his own half . |
| 26 | ‘ At my former company [ French Gold Abbott ] we were inexperienced and no one viewed FGA as the last place they were going to work . |
| 27 | The English first bred turkeys in Norfolk during the 17th and 18th centuries . |
| 28 | We have no regional offices , and do not appear in any local telephone books ; publicity material like the leaflets have HQ address on them and so many people making contact with CPRW for the first time , no matter where they live , come first to us . |
| 29 | Its use in Germany during the Second World War provided the most dramatic illustration of the power of the symbol . |
| 30 | Pacelli 's relationship with Germany during the Second World War , and his apparent failure to act sufficiently vigorously in defence of the Jews , remains the great enigma of his pontificate . |