Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [num] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I replied that I had been fighting for the extra 200,000 I had managed to achieve , I was remonstrated with for having put the business at risk . |
| 2 | For 347 ( 87% ) this matching was done 3 years after surgery and for the remaining 53 it was 2 years after surgery . |
| 3 | For the cash-happy Eighties she absconded to 57th Street . |
| 4 | During the early sixties they happily cruised the Windward Islands , revelling in some 30 tranquil anchorages . |
| 5 | During the early 1980s I was engaged in a re-study of a co-educational Roman Catholic comprehensive school that I called Bishop McGregor School . |
| 6 | During the late 1620s he lived in the town , acting as legal adviser to the corporation and to local gentry families , such as the Drydens and the Knightleys . |
| 7 | During the late sixties he painted portraits of a number of distinguished folk , and , here , for good measure , are John Betjeman , before he became Poet Laureate , David Jacobs and Harry Secombe . |
| 8 | During the late 1960s I had asked the Civil Aviation Flying Unit ( CAFU ) to connect the pilot 's boom microphones in one of their HS 125 aircraft to a domestic tape recorder to see whether an acceptable quality of recording could be achieved . |
| 9 | Well in fact it , it it has in fact gone full circle because through the nineteen fifties you went through to co-ops to collectives to communes which lasted through to nineteen seventy eight , the communes were then disbanded and you 're back , now , after reform which took very much system . |
| 10 | After the threats of the early '80s we may well have relaxed a bit . |
| 11 | In the recession of the early 1980s it took four years for the unemployment figures to drop . |
| 12 | Prior to the announcement of the additional two it had been estimated that the total capital cost of the 26 new prisons would be 870 million at an average cost per place of 69,200 . |
| 13 | That letter to Sixsmith was but one of the many dozens he had penned . |
| 14 | I pile the CDs on top of the tapes which balance on my redundant vinyl collection that 's heaped on top of the ancient 78s I 've had for years . ’ |
| 15 | Football obviously is the big one , so out of the two hundred you 'll probably get something like eighty footballers and then out of the other five sports that we 're going to host erm we will split them accordingly . |
| 16 | For the election of the other four you will be at the mercy of other people 's votes . |
| 17 | Now that was true until the late sixties early seventies and of course er you find there the election to the o to the White House of one Richard Milhous Nixon , conservative Republican er a man who was not above hiring gangsters and burglars to do his work for him , and this produced a reaction and if you read the , the presidential literature of the nineteen seventies you will find the opposite , you will find er political scientists , all American , er demanding reforms of the American system , not to make the president more powerful but to make the president less powerful . |
| 18 | Until the ‘ troubles ’ of the late 1960s it studiously refused to do so . |
| 19 | While there was certainly an increase in the output of these businesses in the prosperous years of the late 1970s it is doubtful if they did more than keep pace with the fast growth rate for the manufacturing sector as a whole , estimated by the World Bank to be 12 per cent from 1970 to 1982 . |
| 20 | The promise is to provide standards transparency instead of picking one ( or any of the five million we 've come up with so far ) . |
| 21 | And I missed that in the seventies and eighties , and my wife said you know you 're mad , towards the late eighties she told me off , she said you 're mad , you 'll spend your life looking for something that you 've already got , for god 's sake just concentrate on what you r are , you 're an actor , do that , perform . |
| 22 | Yeah , but that goes , that goes in the lit file , so I got rid of my er with the thirty five I managed to get rid of erm |
| 23 | With the three thousand we 've |
| 24 | As with the previous two it can be raised from seed . |
| 25 | I liked the Western Systems WS486SX/33 : I thought it was just a cut above the other three I tested . |
| 26 | From the late 1960s he was convinced that the CNAA should shed the more experienced colleges and help the others to be ready to be shed . |
| 27 | Russian industrialists were still largely dependent on foreign raw materials and machinery , but from the late 1860s they did enjoy a steep rise in orders . |
| 28 | It does appear that from the late 1950s he took a back seat , leaving the direction of affairs to a collective leadership : Giap as military chief , Pham Van Dong as premier , Truong Chinh as formulator of ideology , Nguyen Duy Trinh as planner and programmer and Le Duan , brought back from the south , taking over as party chief from Ho late in 1957 . |
| 29 | From the late 1730s he began to develop a more ambitious career in cartography . |
| 30 | Looking back from the late 1980s it seems that decentralization was not a clean break , nor was it a temporary aberration , since elements of both continue to exist side by side in the British settlement system . |