Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] from the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Istvan Gyulai , the secretary-general of the International Amateur Athletics Federation said that an official report was expected soon from the DLV and did not want to comment until then . |
| 2 | Yesterday Acting Detective Inspector Colin Gibson , of Darlington CID , said the teenager suffered a slight cut to his face after trying to struggle away from the two . |
| 3 | The estimate meant that , if no agreement was reached between congress and the president , $104,800 million would be sequestrated automatically from the 1991 budget , under the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit reduction legislation ( the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act ) which provided a statutory obligation to reduce the deficit to $64,000 million by 1991 and to achieve its complete elimination by 1993 . |
| 4 | He moved confidently from the two charming putti who supported the tablet to Major the Honourable Clement Braithwaite , fallen at Peshawar in 1840 , to that of the religious and virtuous Clarissa , relict of Bertrand Hardy of this county . |
| 5 | This mode is carried forward from the 1954 Convention , and it is expressly provided that ‘ if exceptional circumstances so require ’ diplomatic channels may be used for the same purpose . |
| 6 | He twisted away from the two men . |
| 7 | Easily Accessible : Bathford is an attractive stone-built village dating mainly from the 1700s . |
| 8 | The single biggest boost came in 1987 ( ahead of the 19th October 1987 stock market meltdown ) , when the portfolio profited hugely from the two takeovers of Associated Book Publishers and the Octopus Group . |
| 9 | Run away from the two old women . |
| 10 | Sizes vary enormously from the 5 litre domestic model and the professional version of the same capacity that can be back-pack mounted for use in awkward areas to giants capable of holding 200 litres or more . |
| 11 | he hangs apart from the two strong women , |
| 12 | She kept pushing at it with all those millions of invisible little arms and hands that were reaching out from her eyes , feeling the power that was flashing straight from the two little black dots in the very centres of her eyeballs . |
| 13 | In university laboratories and research institutes , studies of nerve cells , and particularly of the transmission of impulses from one nerve to another , developed widely from the 1920s onward ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 14 | The number of items prescribed differed across the age bands ( table I ) with a small peak in patients under 5 years old and rising rapidly from the 5–16 to 75–84 age groups . |
| 15 | Accordingly it became a relatively more important cause of death than scarlet fever , which declined fast from the 1860s ( the two diseases have some symptoms in common and were not separated in death certification until 1858 ) . |
| 16 | Contrasting the brutal murder of a taxi driver with the subsequent execution of the accused , A Short Film About Killing forms the first part of Kieslowski 's Decalogue cycle — ten separate parables which draw thematically from the Ten Commandments and are linked by a common setting , an anonymous Warsaw housing estate . |
| 17 | I am trying , within the context of the debate , to identify how we can move forward from the 1990s to the 21st century , the problems that we as a nation will have to face , our relationship with Europe and how we can learn from the nations that we have said are the best , such as Germany , and develop a sound strategic regional policy . |
| 18 | Fertility declined steadily from the 1870s to a new low in the 1930s . |
| 19 | Data General Corp is now saying its long-promised Motorola Inc 88110-based systems wo n't be announced until well into next year ( UX No 394 ) , but reckons this does n't indicate any plans to switch away from the 88000 CPU line . |
| 20 | These varying forms of state intervention , rather clumsily described as ‘ bureaucracy-led , mass-inclusionary pluralism ’ worked well from the 1950s into the 1980s . |
| 21 | In order to fit the result of selecting two decimal digits ( a maximum value of 99 ) into a range of twenty storage positions , 20 is subtracted repetitively from the two digits until the result is less than 20 . |
| 22 | The other important feature of the room is the series of geographical and astrological globes , made here from the 1570s to the 1670s . |
| 23 | At the Essex Forest Eyre held at Waltham Holy Cross in 1489 , juries attended only from the hundreds of Becontree and Waltham Holy Cross and the half hundred of Waltham , plus four men and the reeve from only seventeen forest townships , all in the south-western corner of Essex : that is to say , the forest of Essex had been reduced , roughly speaking , to the bounds laid down by the hotly contested perambulations of 1300 . |
| 24 | The population grew rapidly from the 1770s , doubled in the half century after 1780 , and doubled again between 1841 and 1901 . |
| 25 | Its ancestors served abroad from the 1630s onwards , and the tradition of foreign service continues today . |
| 26 | The houses date mostly from the 1910–20 era , and are in poor condition . |
| 27 | A PLEA was issued yesterday for people to stay away from the six sperm whales which appear to be trapped at Scapa Flow in Orkney . |
| 28 | Analysts had been bullish on the indicator ahead of the announcement , but in the event , the US Semiconductor Industry Association 's book-to-bill ratio for February fell to a still very healthy 1.18 , from 1.20 in January , the latter figure revised upwards from the 1.19 reported at the time . |
| 29 | Not least because there are n't any left apart from the two you can get through this column by answering the question : Which role did Alan Rickman play in the film Robin Hood , Prince of Thieves ? |
| 30 | Their use increased considerably from the 1880s when the familiar skeletal iron-framed hay barn with a curved corrugated-iron roof began to appear in all parts of the country . |