Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What sort of programmes do we want to see in the nineties and beyond ? |
| 2 | During this briefing Mr Clayton said nothing about what medical evidence may exist relating to the nine children subject to Place of Safety warrants . |
| 3 | I intend to concentrate on the two subjects of today 's debate , education and employment . |
| 4 | But there was to be no repeat performance as the 2-5 favourite failed to sparkle in the two and a quarter mile Haldon Gold Cup . |
| 5 | 20 THINGS YOU NEED TO PRETEND TO KNOW ABOUT THE '70s |
| 6 | Meese had simply said , ‘ All right , we want to go through the 1985 shipment … well , how the initiative began … then talk to him about this memo of the diversion of funds . ’ |
| 7 | However , as interest in training , and co-ordinated training programmes has developed throughout the 70s and 80s , so has interest in co-operative training schemes . |
| 8 | Already another member of the nursing staff has enrolled in the 1993/94 course . |
| 9 | MINISTERS are bracing themselves for the release of unemployment figures on Thursday which are expected to go over the three million mark . |
| 10 | This pattern is expected to continue into the 1990s . |
| 11 | These are very substantial changes which are widely expected to continue in the 1990s . |
| 12 | The aquarium is a prime example of an out-of-date building which badly needs bringing into the 1990's . |
| 13 | Indeed the amount of oil spilt worldwide has fallen since the 1970s while the volume shipped has grown . |
| 14 | Some have argued that the rise of the Happy Days mob shows how far Hollywood has fallen since the Seventies , the era of the Movie Brats . |
| 15 | So much so , that it has fallen from the 50 per cent standard of the 1930s , to less than 15 per cent in the late 1970s — which is no better , and in some areas far worse , than the standard already achieved before the First World War when the Probation Act of 1907 had hardly consolidated itself . |
| 16 | Farm incomes are expected to fall in the 1990s and the Commission expects many farmers to participate in the scheme , despite initial protests that the payments are too low . |
| 17 | Yet here she was , on the top floor of the BBC 's Television Centre , being asked to shape a new serial designed to appeal to the one audience bracket of which she had no understanding . |
| 18 | They provide about 80 per cent of total lending for private house purchase , though this figure has fluctuated during the 1980s as banks entered , retreated from and then re-entered the mortgage market . |
| 19 | Now , however , I want to concentrate on the 15 years during which the two of them lived and worked together , and Pollock made a bid to change the course of what was then thought of as modern art . |
| 20 | Subject to approval by both Houses of the UK Parliament , the measure was expected to come before the 1994 General Synod for formal declaration . |
| 21 | Who tried to hide during the 1984–85 miners ' strike by wearing a bag over his head ? |
| 22 | Information is available from the Hospital In-Patient Enquiry ( HIPE ) on national bed-use rates by sex , age group and medical condition for non-psychiatric patients , where conditions are grouped according to the seventeen major Chapter headings of the International Classification of Diseases . |
| 23 | ‘ This whole Unit has grown from the one room originally set aside for road accidents some years ago . |
| 24 | Money invested in unit trusts has grown throughout the 1980's , particularly in 1986 , with funds under management growing by 63 per cent . |
| 25 | The death toll has risen into the 20s , an estimated 4,000 businesses are gutted . |
| 26 | Future Soviet ABM deployments are similarly expected to conform to the 1972 treaty and its protocols or any future renegotiations of the agreement . ’ |
| 27 | His first Classic victory came on Never Say Die in the 1954 Derby , his last on Shadeed , who beat Bairn by a head in the 1985 Two Thousand Guineas . |
| 28 | More than 200 others were reported injured among the 327 passengers and 13 crew . |
| 29 | With the spread of home ownership , a process that began in earnest during the inter-war years and has accelerated since the 1960s , the passing on of the family home will become an increasingly important aspect of defining who owns what , and confirming the advantages enjoyed by some groups of the population . |
| 30 | ‘ Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her ’ |