Example sentences of "[num] and the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The year was 1876 and the coachman was later fined for his behaviour , but the incident illustrates the reactionary 's response to new forms of transport .
2 The building will be opened on September 30 and the video , The Iron Horses Are Back In Harness , will run in their purpose-built presentation theatre on the site .
3 Apart from the stray references to external events in the letters between Helen and Edward , the incomplete Fiction is a fuller guide to the decisions Thomas was making between Easter 1895 and the summer of 1896 than reinterpretation of the Morgans novel .
4 Apple 's low-end machine , the Centris 610-based AWS 60 is also configured with AppleShare 4.0 and the System 7 operating system .
5 Apple 's low-end machine , the Centris 610-based AWS 60 is also configured with AppleShare 4.0 and the System 7 operating system .
6 The use of telex machines increased 7 per cent in the year 1987-88 and the demand for fax machines will outstrip that this year .
7 Between mid-1979 and the end of 1980 , the output of Britain 's manufacturing industry fell by some 12 per cent ; and many parts of the country became quieter at night .
8 After the depression of the 1890s and the dilapidation of many of the lines , the companies were able to make a remarkable resurgence in the early decades of the twentieth century before their terminal decline .
9 These consists of the periods of time between the abdication of the king in 1931 and November 1933 , between November 1933 and the election of the Popular Front in 1936 , and from February 1936 to the outbreak of the Civil War in July 1936 .
10 Samples received from ICC show the ratio of characters to keystrokes to be 2:3 and the ratio for data delivered to the project team may increase to 1:2 .
11 3 Concessions in the Great Charter 1215 and the Charter of the Forest 1217 .
12 In 1913 the membership of the Dock , Wharf Riverside and General Labourers Union rose from 40,000 to 48,000 , the Sailors and Firemen from 71,000 to almost 83,000 and the Dock Labourers from 44,000 to 52,000 ; only the smaller London societies lost , and then by comparatively low numbers .
13 Then the rejection of a reading where ‘ him ’ is bound to the dog will cause CLE-1 and the reasoner to cycle through all of John , Bill , Fred , and the vet as candidate referents for ‘ he ’ before a change to the ‘ him ’ binding is considered .
14 There were other pointers occasionally , such as Charles Kingsley 's book on Town Geology published in 1872 and the objection of Kropotkin ( 1893 , p. 350 ) to the trend to exclude man from physiography .
15 As always with KEF , the installation booklets for both the 103/4 and the KUBE are exemplary , models of clarity and good , sensible advice on such topics as positioning , amplifier requirements , wiring up , system fine-tuning and so on .
16 A women 's meeting was held during the church congress at Portsmouth in 1885 and the bishop of Newcastle , who was to be the speaker , persuaded Mary Sumner to tell the audience about her dream of a union of mothers .
17 ‘ The auditorium will seat around 800 and the idea is to give more people a chance to enjoy the spectacle of the Dudley Stationary Open Veterans ’ Week , ’ he said .
18 The ( English ) priory of the medieval order was dissolved in 1540 and the archive consists mainly of records of post-1831 date , when the Venerable Order of St John was founded .
19 The Statute of Quia Emptores 1290 gave free power of alienation inter vivos to all tenants in fee simple ; and the effect of the Statute of Wills 1540 and the Statute of Tenures 1660 was to give a free power of testamentary disposition .
20 In the early 1930s the average morning congregation ranged from 72 to 113 and the evening congregations were between 120 and 140 .
21 It was known as the Sports Car World Championship from 1953–61 and the title went to the leading manufacturer .
22 The Crown renewed purchases of bronze and iron naval guns , and the ordnance market expanded further with the Scottish rebellion of 1639–40 and the outbreak of civil war in 1642 .
23 For example , suppose that the price of a ten-year 10 per cent bond is 107.25 and the price of a nine-year 10 per cent bond is 106.75 .
24 Certainly , if there was a degree of hostility to the Danes in London the anniversary of Ælfheah 's death on 19 April would have been a time when feelings ran particularly high , for Cnut 's England was clearly conscious of anniversaries of recent events , as awareness of the dates of the battle of Assandun in 1016 and the death of Edmund Ironside indicates .
25 A good system for storing electricity will not become possible before 1995 , Meanwhile , the date for artificial intelligence is shunted back 20 years to 2020 and the time for weather control is 2030 instead of 2015 , All kinds of obstacles , not so much technological as human and economic , have interfered with the 1962 predictions , as with many others that people have made with seemingly unimpeachable authority over the past 50 years .
26 For example , while the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the enactment of the United States Constitution in 1787 were illegal under the old legal order , they were validated by , and received their legitimacy and authority from , the People of the United States , who accepted them and agreed to abide by the new constitution .
27 This opposition and critique is first articulated in the American debates surrounding the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the writing of a constitution a decade later .
28 After 10 ends the score was 18-1 and the match was over as a contest .
29 Theseus xxxvi and the inscription at Revue Belge , xxxiv , 1956,542 ) .
30 Berengaria promised to leave Alfonso in 1204 and the pope legitimized the children .
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