Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 How about the ten over a hundred what will that come to ?
2 As an example , personal , social and moral education was from the 1960s onwards a field where schools shared their experiences , their approaches and their materials .
3 In the Habsburg territories also , as has been seen , a series of able ministers backed by Maria Theresa , the greatest ruler of the dynasty , created from the 1740s onwards a whole range of important new organs of administration ( see pp. 153–4 ) .
4 Without this exodus of labour from Southern Europe , which allowed it to reconstruct a reserve army at home , West German capitalism would have been unable to achieve its formidable expansion of outputs in the 1960s without a catastrophic decline in the rate of profit .
5 In the 1840s only a quarter of London 's newcomers ended up south of the Thames , but during the following three decades the proportion grew to a third .
6 Samuel Taylor Coleridge had been reading Purchas 's His Pilgrimage after taking some opium : In Xamdu did Cublai Can build a stately palace , encompassing sixteene miles of plaine ground with a wall , wherein are fertile Meddowes , pleasant Springs , delightful Streames , and all sorts of beasts of chase and game , and in the middest thereof a sumptuous house of pleasure .
7 In the mid-1920s only a little over 1 per cent were receiving a formal education .
8 In the 1950s only a quarter of the growth in sales of electricity to domestic consumers came from newly-connected homes and another quarter from the extended use of existing appliances , but as much as half came from newly-purchased appliances .
9 Unemployment , now a major problem , was in the mid-seventies only a threat ; privatisation was not an issue ; government attacks on the trade union movement were a thing of the future .
10 ‘ It is possible that the body was taken to the Close only a short time before it was discovered , ’ Morton said .
11 Kalchu took it downstairs to the stable twice a day when he milked the mother .
12 ‘ Still , I suppose to the uneducated even a degree in Liberal Arts is impressive . ’
13 Students will need to discipline themselves to keep a record , in a loose leaf binder , on a very regular basis eg. weekly or at the longest once a fortnight .
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