Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pulled up his roots a second time and moved to another new land , Germany , where during the twelve years that were left to him he accomplished a ‘ ballet miracle ’ , building not merely a repertory and a company in Stuttgart , but a whole new public attitude that affected other theatres throughout the country . |
| 2 | Massive prison population expansion in recent years is by no means unique to the United States , but it would be difficult to find other examples where during the 1980s the annual rate of growth exceeded 11 per cent . |
| 3 | Our duels were not on the scale of the later Clarke versus Prescott battles , where in the 1987 general election I saw a television chairman leave his chair several times to restore order . |
| 4 | In the universities , where in the sixties rioting students and the educated tele-celebrities of the ‘ chattering classes ’ had commanded public attention , there were now dormant , apolitical students anxious only for their future employment , and embittered lecturers suffering a crisis of morale and lamenting the bureaucratic invasion of time traditionally left for teaching and research . |
| 5 | Where in the 1930s the mother was given solemn warnings as to what would happen if she disobeyed the rules , the mode now is to refer her , with continual reassurances however , to what might possibly result from some mistaken handlings : ‘ Here 's what happens once in a while when the needs of the child are n't recognized ’ ( Spock , 1946 , chapter on ‘ The Two Year Old ’ ) . |
| 6 | To his annoyance he found that the Treasurer 's office was now completely empty except for the four telephones set down in a row on the bare boards of the floor . |
| 7 | Of the twenty non-royal knights who processed into the chapel , all except for the two former Labour prime ministers had been at public schools . |
| 8 | Except for the two men , there are no family or friends present . |
| 9 | Except for the two years after Martin drowned I 've always been able to believe that at the heart of the universe there is love . ’ |
| 10 | Blufton laughed , revealing a line of white teeth , regular except for the two upper canines which had grown forward over the teeth in front . |
| 11 | His voluminous political correspondence was purchased from her by Peel 's literary executors , the fifth Earl Stanhope and Edward , Viscount Cardwell [ qq.v. ] , and destroyed except for the two volumes incorporated in the Peel papers , now in the British Library , and letters of his own retained by Lord Stanhope . |
| 12 | Except for the two hours when you went out and drove round to Boundary Drive . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Except for the two unfortunates buried in your churchyard . ’ |
| 14 | Except for the two ugly heads , of course . |
| 15 | Except for the two quarters at each end , we can examine residuals and comment on any that are unduly large , indicating observations badly represented by the proposed model of trend and seasonality . |
| 16 | We went in gingerly but as far as one could tell the floor was solid except for the one strip over the missing bit of beam . |
| 17 | That 's right , but Locke was turning it on , on occasion and and just could n't strike at all , except for the one wicket , if he bowled quicker and quicker he might have been in trouble . |
| 18 | Everyone went wild with laughter again , except for the three men above us , who received such a jolt that they nearly released their macabre cargo onto our heads . |
| 19 | The statistics in the report will enable all firms , except for the 400 with over eleven partners , to compare their own systems with firms of a similar size . |
| 20 | To meet this gap in the old ‘ circle of control ’ , an Estimates Committee was appointed in 1912 and reappointed in every session , except during the two world wars , until 1960 when Standing Order No. 80 made the sessional appointment of the committee mandatory . |
| 21 | They chose their governments , except during the seven buffoonish years of the colonels ' dictatorship , in a properly democratic way . |
| 22 | My missionary vocation landed me with the task , the experience probably did more for me than for the fifty to one hundred loyal missionary supporters who attended . |
| 23 | For farm workers the North–South divide continued , indeed it probably worsened , and countrywide averages are no more helpful than for the 1760 to 1790 period . |
| 24 | We found that it was cheaper for the four Europeans to travel to America than for the two Americans to come to London or Berlin . |
| 25 | This upper leftward node indicates a lesser propensity on the part of the reader to make the effort than for the two lower leftward nodes . |
| 26 | Mike Ross , Widows ' managing director , said : ‘ Despite a good 1992 , nominal investment returns during the 1990s continue to be considerably lower than for the 1980s . |
| 27 | Official estimates put the turnout at 47.7 per cent of the electorate ( 5 percentage points higher than for the 1988 elections — see pp. 36347-48 ) , but independent observers claimed that the turnout was unusually low , with reports of as little as 10 per cent in some rural areas . |
| 28 | The coincidence of free financial markets with relatively poor economic performance therefore seems more potent than during the 1970s , when inflation and dear oil slowed the whole industrial world . |
| 29 | The most striking feature is that expenditure in the 1970s was at a far higher level than during the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 30 | Critical attention on the Renaissance during the 1980s and now the 1990s is no more disinterested than during the 1940s or at any other period . |