Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] between [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is believed she became caught between two rival gangs when violence erupted in the packed pub . |
| 2 | Trehub and Abramovitch ( 1978 ) showed that three- and four-year-olds exhibited a similar preference when simply asked to choose between two piles of different sizes : they preferred the larger one . |
| 3 | Maidstone prison contains one man who has already served 33 years and staff seemed torn between two beliefs ; one , that the risk he posed ( of further offences against children ) meant that further incarceration was inevitable , the other that his extraordinarily long period in custody meant he would be unable to survive outside the prison walls , anyway . |
| 4 | ) The age at which this ‘ secondary ’ drug use began varied between 13 and 24 , although 82 per cent of these individuals were concentrated in the lower age band of 13–17 . |
| 5 | However , Eiders may also be seen right along the coast , and the total numbers recorded wintering between 1960 and 1976 varied between 20 in the winter of 1960/61 and 250 in that of on average about 70–80 are usually present . |
| 6 | About leaving a place when I felt torn between two people I loved . |
| 7 | He felt suspended between one drama and another . |
| 8 | Sadly , the war years interrupted the programme , though a few short botanical notes did appear between 1939 and 1945 . |
| 9 | If , if , if you could explain it by that because presumably their standard of living did change between eighteen fifty |
| 10 | Finally whilst it is true that prices and costs did increase between 1978 and 1987 , none of this was directly attributable to expenditures on the Mahaweli Project , which was financed by outright grants and concessionary loans from friendly governments : basic social services and food subsidies were never curtailed . |
| 11 | Before it was halfway through its arc Hrun 's right hand moved so fast that it appeared to travel between two points in space without at any time occupying the intervening air . |
| 12 | In a scheme expected to take between six and 12 months to set up , 30 per cent of the capital would be set aside exclusively for Romanian nationals in five private ownership funds . |
| 13 | John Cheese , director of Barclays personal sector marketing , said : ‘ We found 36 p.c. of customers interviewed said they had to wait between five and 10 minutes to be served . |
| 14 | He said the worst figures were in ophthalmology where patients had to wait between 48 and 71 weeks just to see a consultant for a diagnosis . |
| 15 | The GAO report cites the instance of one storage tank which it estimated had leaked between 50,000 and 800,000 gallons of radioactive water over a ten-year period up to 1978 , against the operators ' reporting of 5,000 gallons . |
| 16 | All patients had received between 40 and 60Gy radiation in fractionated doses over 2–4 weeks for the treatment of epithelial tumours ; none had received chemotherapy or steroids . |
| 17 | He was an Edinburgh solicitor who had two houses , two cars and had commuted between two women before one of them found out about the other . |
| 18 | He had fallen between two sharp jagged-edge boulders and the angry tide had battered his body between them . |
| 19 | The Bugis had fallen between two sciences , forgetting the old before they had mastered the new . |
| 20 | The Supreme Soviet in the Abkhaz ASSR voted on Aug. 25 ( with barely half of its 140 deputies in attendance ) to declare independence from Georgia and restoration of the full republican status Abkhazia had enjoyed between 1921 and 1930 . |
| 21 | It has not taken IBM Corp long to admit informally that its target of 25,000 job cuts this year is on the low side , and the company now says that it expects at least 6,000 jobs to be cut at its three main operations in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York , where previously it had forecast between 3,000 and 3,500 : IBM told Reuters that the job cuts , which will likely include layoffs , will come from the company 's mainframe business in Poughkeepsie and Kingston , where at least 2,000 jobs will be cut , up from the company 's previous expectations of between 600 to 800 , and it also sees bigger staff cuts at the East Fishkill chip facility , which now expects to lose about 4,000 workers , up from about 3,000 — IBM is phasing out semiconductor operations in East Fishkill , moving some of the work to Burlington , Vermont , some to Essonnes , France ; advanced semiconductor research and packaging remains in East Fishkill ; the company says that despite the increased cuts , it believes that the charges it took in the fourth quarter will still be sufficient . |
| 22 | In his guidelines , Sydney Newman had recommended between four and six episodes as ideal for each Doctor Who serial . |
| 23 | In 1968 , the national breed absorbed the South and West Norwegian ( SVF ) , a red or dun dairy breed , usually polled but sometimes horned and with a colour range almost as extensive as that of the Jersey , which had been formed in 1947 by combining the polled red Lyngdal , the Vestland Red Polled and the Vestland fjord , a dun , red or black breed , usually horned , which had originated between 1866 and 1895 from the horned black Hørdaland and the polled grey Møre and Ramsdal . |
| 24 | The report noted that advocates of re-introduction did not wish simply to limit the penalty to the same offences as those to which it had applied between 1861 and 1948 . |
| 25 | The actuary had to choose between two different methods . |
| 26 | These were the men and women who no doubt complained that in Nice the cost of unfurnished houses had risen between 1858 and 1876 from £64 to £100 per year , and that of women servants from £8–10 to a scandalous £24–30 a year . |
| 27 | Overall 1586 ( 66% ) were traced through the NHS central registry at Southport , and 693 had died between 1 January 1951 and 31 December 1990 . |
| 28 | The United Kingdom Parliamentary Human Rights Group Report , published on April 4 — the day the Dalai Lama arrived in the UK for a nine-day pastoral visit — and alleging that over 1,000,000 Tibetans had died between 1950 and 1984 as a direct result of Chinese rule , brought the same response . |
| 29 | Some redistribution had occurred between 1938 and 1949 , but if one ignores the top 1 per cent of income earners , there had been little change up to 1979 . |
| 30 | A previous study into gill net use and its effects in southwest England revealed a minimum of 1,800 birds had drowned between 1988 and 1991 . |