Example sentences of "[adj] [art] [noun sg] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1943 the group of three full-time and three part-time workers were dealing with 2,000 requests a year from hospital almoners , social workers and individuals , placing 523 and advising 986 , besides visiting homes to see if they were suitable . |
| 2 | Another consequence of the boom in opposition to nuclear weapons was the eclipse of the campaign against nuclear power , which was a bit odd given that the whole of 1982 was a run up to the inquiry , which begins later this month , into the plans to build Britain 's first pressurised-water reactor . |
| 3 | It was held in the circumstances that the defendant was negligent in not completely extinguishing the fire and that the Act of 1774 provided no defence . |
| 4 | Given that the proportion of over-75 's in the population will rise by 14 per cent in the 30 years from 1 98 1 , the needs of the traffic vulnerable will inevitably become more insistent . |
| 5 | Some survived as works cars and snow ploughs , making possible the preservation of one of each type in working museums today , as seen on these pages . |
| 6 | In 1953–54 the figure of 2,982 , down from 3,151 in the previous year , dismayed the District Secretary , especially since branches had been asked to make a drive to recruit new members in Jubilee Year , 1953 . |
| 7 | If so , could was that price , sorry the cost of two pound , include their meal ? |
| 8 | Well when you walked in my porch when those blokes were doing it , you walked in there , I mean it 's nice , it 's a wrong suite for the for the room , too narrow the room for one of those |
| 9 | On the weekend of Dec. 28-29 the budget for 1992 received final approval in the Senate . |
| 10 | His authority in dealings with the government — and , indeed , rapport with de Klerk — is vital in guiding the country through one of its most difficult phases . |
| 11 | The number has increased gradually from 1,087,000 in 1968 , though natural increase ( excess of births over death ) accounted for more than half the rise in 1979-1980 , the last year for which figures are available . |
| 12 | It has been estimated that the pope was compulsorily absent for more than half the century between 1099 and 1198 and for a total of 67 years in the next century ( 1198 – 1304 ) . |
| 13 | The budgets for the two movies ( $11 million versus $28 million ) were roughly comparable , allowing for inflation ; but unlike Star Wars ( $9.5 million , less than half the cost of 2001 , allowing for inflation ) , Alien and others , shot mainly in England for economy , 2010 stuck to MGM 's home base in Culver City and did not economize on actors , except by avoiding superstars . |
| 14 | But last year housebuilding bottomed out at about half the level of 1988 and analysts predict a slow upturn in 1992 . |
| 15 | Botham may find himself having to bowl rather more than his contract anticipated , and with nearly half the team aged 35 or more they will need a fit physio-therapist . |
| 16 | Still , by the end of the decade , state per capita expenditure was half the value of 1980 ( Noormahomed et al , 1990 ) . |
| 17 | But I think the number that went back , you know because of the small workforce the fact that eight or nine returned to work , you know that was virtually half the workforce in one quarry , it made it quite awkward then . |
| 18 | The red second hand was coming up to six-thirty , 14 January , and I was counting thirty-eight beats a minute , slower than ever , half the rate of two years ago . |
| 19 | The final option is splitting the party into two houses — the unions with half the vote on one side and constituency parties on the other . |
| 20 | MORTGAGES NOW The housing market is running at half the volume of four years ago , but borrowers need to look carefully at what 's on offer from lenders |
| 21 | In the Calder Valley district , the Yorkshire Water Authority 's data showed the EC limits were met less than half the time in 1988 . |
| 22 | The £5m bid is twice as much as the offer from Argyll which owns the Presto and Safeway chains for half the ground in 1987 . |
| 23 | This agrees with the observation that human marathons are won at about half the speed of 100 m sprints . |
| 24 | This is half the estimate for 1901 . |
| 25 | For some the holding of one of these posts was just one stage in their careers , for others a succession of such posts appears to have become a career in itself , though one must be careful to emphasize that there is not enough evidence to suggest that there was in the case of the muderris/muftis anything like as clearly defined a career structure as in the case of the muderrises and the kadis , that there was , in effect , a comparable to the and the . |
| 26 | On March 2 the trial of 21 police and Securitate officers began in Timisoara . |
| 27 | On Dec. 30 the budget for 1992 was approved , with 45 of the 80 deputies voting in favour . |
| 28 | In a statement issued on Sept. 22 the Group of 24 ( G-24 ) developing countries called on the international community to recognize the scale of the problems posed by the Gulf crisis . |
| 29 | W.H. Chaloner writes that during eight years between '58 & '67 a total of 904 tons of ore were made ready for smelting ; Sir Michael le Fleming , the new Lord , receiving dues amounting to £376 : 15s. : 0d. it is not known where the main ore dressing floor was located but it was probably on the site of the 19th century floors — near the present youth hostel . |
| 30 | A repetition of the same sin under similarly testing circumstances does not make this a duplicate of 12:10–20 . |