Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , childbearing is concentrated within the first decade of married life ( 84 per cent of births within marriage in 1956–60 , 92 per cent in 1976 ) , and especially in the second half of the decade — 33 per cent of births occurred in the fifth to the ninth years of marriage in 1976 compared to 26 per cent in 1951–5 ( figure 4.11 ) . |
| 2 | Figure 5 shows their distribution with time ; 49% occurred in the first four seconds after the onset of the common cavity episode and 34% were scattered over the 5th to the 27th second after the onset of the common cavity . |
| 3 | Earnings crashed by a third to 41p . |
| 4 | Profits have dropped by a fifth to £34.8 million in the first half of this year , and he 's not expecting an early recovery . |
| 5 | The dividend is lifted by a fifth to 12.74p , with a final 8.92p covered by normal earnings of 34.4p , up almost 4p a share . |
| 6 | The dividend is lifted by a fifth to 12.74p , with a final 8.92p covered by normal earnings of 34.4p , up almost 4p a share . |
| 7 | The Austrian pulled away further with a third to Hunt 's fifth in Sweden to stretch hi lead to a mammoth 47 points . |
| 8 | The view that the Lord 's Day is essentially the Jewish Sabbath — a ‘ taboo ’ day — transferred from the seventh to the first day of the week found expression from time to time in medieval law and theology . |
| 9 | The collection totals approximately 150 items comprising an historical survey of first-class material ranging from the first to the nineteenth century AD . |
| 10 | All the music played was written by composers who were chemists ( or almost so ) , ranging from the seventeenth to the twentieth century , from Campion to Elgar . |
| 11 | On offer are paintings , drawings and works of art ranging from the seventeenth to the 20th centuries . |
| 12 | 31 Italian Old Master paintings ranging from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries are to be sold by the J.Paul Getty Museum . |
| 13 | Todedo 's 168 pieces of Roman mould-blown glass , dating from the first to sixth centuries AD , constitute the world 's largest and finest collection of examples of this technique . |
| 14 | The exhibition spans the period from 3,000 BC to the sixteenth century , with most of the exhibits dating from the first to the third century AD . |
| 15 | Palatinate of Durham Within the Department of Palaeography of the University of Durham , established in 1948 for the promotion of the study of manuscript material mainly from the northern counties , there are major collections dating from the eleventh to the nineteenth centuries . |
| 16 | More than 120 paintings dating from the fifteenth to the twentieth century have been loaned from The State Museum of Ukrainian Art , Kiev , the majority nineteenth-century portraits and genre scenes but also some fine icons such as ‘ The Miracle of Saint George ’ , second half of the fifteenth century , from the Church of the Elevation of the Holy Cross , Zvyzhen ( Galicia ) , and a group of avant-garde works from the private collection of the Kiev collector Ihor Dyehenko . |
| 17 | Other lots include a seventeenth-century Florentine bronze pacing stallion from the workshops of Antonio Susini ( est. £40,000–60,000 ; $61,200–92,000 ) , and a collection of about seventy ivories dating from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries , comprising French gothic reliefs , South German concentric turned goblets , several statuettes and a number of tankards . |
| 18 | The Perls Collection is a recent gift to the Metropolitan Museum ; this is the catalogue of the exhibition of 149 sculptures and other items from Southern Nigeria , including the Yoruba kingdoms of Owo and Ijebu , dating from the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries , many of great beauty , which closed 13 September . |
| 19 | Item No 5 : is a sandwich-type buckle-plate , dating from the 14th to 15th century . |
| 20 | Bishops were unlikely to help them , for " Whatever the cost , even if it means the destruction of the church , [ bishops ] try to preserve that power and significance which prelates possessed in the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries " . |
| 21 | The next type of planned town includes those which are reasonably well dated to the tenth to thirteenth centuries and which were clearly new planned urban centres added on to existing villages by their owners as attempts to encourage trade . |
| 22 | Item No 4 : the large loop would normally be attached to a belt as this is a purse frame dating to the 15th to 16th century . |
| 23 | In writings about the Renaissance , its beginning may be seen to waver from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century . |
| 24 | ‘ But for clubs going from the fourth to the third sums between £50,000 and £100,000 are about the going rate so £200,000 from the second to the Premier does n't seem unlikely , ’ he said . |
| 25 | As with a number of shafted weapons , it was used from the eleventh to the seventeenth century . |
| 26 | The land was sold to the second to fourth defendants on 21 July 1988 , and by order dated 16 December 1988 they were added as defendants and the action stayed against the first defendants . |
| 27 | The architecture of the Grossmunster ranges from the eleventh to eighteenth centuries , and once more there is some Giacometti stained glass . |
| 28 | Nearly one million people have been JOBLESS for more than a year and personal BANKRUPTCIES soared by a third to more than 16,000 in the six months to June . |
| 29 | The main reason for this is that the simple plan and elevation of the original cathedral have become obscured by later work , for the cathedral was being continuously added to , altered and developed from the eleventh to the sixteenth century . |
| 30 | The American Museum in Britain shows , through a series of completely furnished rooms with original panelling brought from the United States , how the Americans lived from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries . |