Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [num ord] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 It 's identified generally with many of the glories of bourgeois cooking through the 18th and 19th centuries .
2 From surviving pattern books , trade cards , bill headings , contemporary written accounts and livery company admission lists we learn that Southwark and Whitechapel were the two main areas in London accommodating funeral furnishing houses during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries .
3 Other spellings — Kyese , Keise , Keese — are known to have been recorded in the shires of Gloucester , Worcester and Hereford during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , but today only the style Keyse is found in that area , and Kease appears nowhere except in the author 's own ancestral bloodline .
4 This , however , is not the case for the first and third examples using the same adjective .
5 An anonymous reviewer of the book in the Times Literary Supplement declared : ‘ If a student of British politics were to demand some precepts to guide his researches , the compiler would have little difficulty about the first and most significant maxim in the creed .
6 The proportion of young people from classes I and II staying on at school until the age of 18 or later increased by 2.4 times between the first and the last cohort , while the corresponding proportions for the other two groups of classes are 2.3 and 2.1 times .
7 All courses offer the possibility for a number of students to undertake a year 's supervised work experience between the second and final year of the undergraduate programmes .
8 The English first bred turkeys in Norfolk during the 17th and 18th centuries .
9 Hilary particularly remembers ‘ … the mesmeric Senta , whose teaching was so brilliant that Rata Quick and I both achieved the splits for the first and last time in our lives , with no untoward effects ! ’ .
10 The famous University of Nalanda — ‘ the place that confers the lotus ’ ( or spiritual knowledge ) — which flourished near Patna in the State of Bihar between the fifth and twelfth centuries , was named after a Naga King .
11 Wall 's ( 1986 ) evidence shows that the really notable change between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries was in the smaller number of people living in other people 's homes as servants or lodgers .
12 The technique during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries had four stages .
13 The ISS curriculum proposals for the fourth and fifth years have been summarized in Table 2.1 .
14 The ISS curriculum proposals aroused less controversy in ILEA than those of TNC in part because of the very different curriculum philosophy within which the proposals for the fourth and fifth years were set .
15 ISS proposals for the fourth and fifth years were carefully formulated to ease transition to FE , both in terms of providing students with fuller and positive records of achievement ( the unit credits ) and by experiences of new forms of curriculum organization , especially in modular form ( the units ) .
16 Then the secretory rate declined during second and third hours to the level of about 15–20 mg/30 minutes and remained at this level during the fourth and fifth hour of caerulein infusion .
17 However , in 1977 the Munn Report recommended a common curriculum for the third and fourth years of Scottish secondary schools .
18 The recall part of the experiment started approximately 50 minutes after the first and 10 minutes after the last of the junctions had been driven through ( the exact times varied considerably depending on driving style and traffic conditions ) .
19 If your curiosity is piqued , visit the Krashaar Galleries after the 10th and you will find there a selection of drawings by these two pioneering members of New York 's Ashcan School .
20 Squeezing the string works onto three generously filled discs makes good economic sense , though it is annoying to have to experience a break between the first and second movements of the Op. 67 Quartet .
21 Negotiations between Israel and Syria , about which there had been some optimism during the sixth and the first part of the seventh round , were largely unproductive .
22 Long ago , the broad tactics for the next and final stage of this war had been decided ; all that remained were a host of small decisions and , of course , the normal government of his kingdom .
23 For students taking the American Studies strand , a particular feature of the course is the intercalary year which is taken at a university in the United States between the second and final years .
24 Listen to the Ink Spots , watch Paris , Texas for the eighth or ninth time , shut the doors and lie back on those same damp pillows .
25 Of all the hundreds of trade pattern books issued by manufacturers during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it appears that not more than ten survive in public collections , and only one pre-Victorian priced catalogue relating to coffins and lining materials .
26 Cutlery for the first and main courses is placed on the outside , as for formal settings .
27 A particular form of abuse which was greatly resented was the levying of extra taxes to pay for imperial ceremonies — for example the assumption of power by a new sultan — and for the increasing costs of the wars which the empire was forced to fight as its power was challenged by its enemies , notably the Habsburgs during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries .
28 The details of the legend 's growth are obscure , but it is now known that it was developing steadily in northern Spain and southern France in the centuries between the eighth and the eleventh .
29 The 40-year gap between the First and Second Empires had in no way diminished the ability of these people to perform their functions properly and with dignity , and it should not be thought that the Court of Napoleon III had a sort of second-hand quality about it .
30 Considerations of this kind probably help to account for some interesting changes in the tenure of offices during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries .
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