Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] in the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What sort of programmes do we want to see in the nineties and beyond ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Already another member of the nursing staff has enrolled in the 1993/94 course . |
| 4 | These are very substantial changes which are widely expected to continue in the 1990s . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Adultery has been a hanging matter — both in this and in the usual sense of the phrase — for the literature of the past , and perhaps it could be suggested that both senses may at times be presented to the mind by what Amis does with the subject , and that there is no striking difference in this respect between what he did in the Sixties and what he has done in the Eighties . |
| 8 | It was a goal of the highest class , reflecting the progress the 29-year-old striker has made in the five years since he left Blundell Park to earn fame and fortune with Norwich City and Rangers . |
| 9 | Simultaneously with the preparation of the new housing benefit scheme , the Government began operating a policy of significantly increasing the level of council house rents , and a threefold increase has occurred in the nine years since 1979 ( House of Commons Library Note , 19 July 1988 ) . |
| 10 | The West has simply ‘ rediscovered ’ in Africa ( despite the diversity and complexity of that continent 's cultures ) fundamental values that we imagine were lost or repressed in the high noon of civilization and progress : values like ‘ natural ’ well-being , spontaneity , conviviality , uninhibitedness , everything we long for and want to relearn in the 1980s . |
| 11 | Poor countries , rather than banning imports of hazardous waste — as the Organisation of African Unity tried to do in the 1989 Bamako convention — should accept it and legalise it . |
| 12 | Golf , from nothing , has become in the Eighties the most successful sport , internationally , practised in these islands . |
| 13 | This trend has persisted in the 1980s ; by 1989 the mean age at marriage stood at 24.8 for women and 26.9 for men . |
| 14 | Since the table began on the current basis 22 years ago , Clerical Medical has appeared in the top-ten no fewer than 51 times out of a possible 66 . |
| 15 | Thus although poverty among lone mothers has increased in the 1980s , as a group they have long been vulnerable to poverty . |
| 16 | The dolphin is practically extinct in the Punjab , where only 60 to 70 are reported to survive in the thousands of kilometres of river which were until recent times the home of many more animals . |
| 17 | A lot has happened in the seven months since Ford unveiled its new Escort range — and not much of it in accordance with its £1 billion master plan . |
| 18 | Among serious writers and readers in the United States ( as distinct from shallow and modish Anglophiles mostly around New York ) , it is taken for granted that Pound 's caustic dismissal of us in 1929 was justified , and that nothing has happened in the forty-five years since to alter that picture significantly . |
| 19 | So what has happened in the three decades that have passed ? |
| 20 | Economic inequality is a subject that has thrived in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 21 | The number of air passengers had risen to 1,100 million ( 49 per cent higher than in 1980 ) and was expected to double in the 1990s . |
| 22 | The new exhibition comprises thirty-eight paintings with particular emphasis being placed upon those works which Caulfield has created in the eleven years since his retrospective held at the Walker Art Gallery , Liverpool , and the Tate Gallery , in 1981–82 . |
| 23 | However , the UCTA is so intimately connected with the process of negotiation and drafting in the areas covered by the next four chapters that , as a preliminary to detailed analysis of the precedents , it was felt essential to lay out the principles contained in the UCTA and discuss their application in the light of the case law that has evolved in the 15 years or so since the UCTA came into effect . |
| 24 | Some marketing commentators also take the view that the objective of successful marketing has changed in the 1980s . |
| 25 | That is what we want to achieve in the 1990s . |
| 26 | That is hardly surprising , as the crime rate has doubled in the 12 years since the Conservative party was elected on a promise of law and order . |
| 27 | The technological breakthrough allowing primitive versions of such chips to be made came in the 1960s , and it was in 1969 that M. E. Hoff at the Intel Corp. in California developed the idea of a computer on a chip . |
| 28 | He was selected to run in the 100 and 200 metres in the 1924 Olympics in Paris , but declined to run in the 100 metres on religious grounds , because the heats were to be run on a Sunday . |
| 29 | The World Cup triple jump bronze medallist has decided to run in the 100 metres at the Cleveland County Stadium on Saturday instead of going through the motions in what would have been a practice trial in his specialist event . |
| 30 | Indeed , the differences in ideology between the USA and the USSR are often said to result in the two sets of decision-makers seeing different worlds . |