Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Toulouse also , the steadily falling value of comital coins in the second half of the century made them relevant at last to the needs of the merchant classes . |
| 2 | The authors do not ask why the players adhered to and implemented these unnecessary checks in the first place . |
| 3 | The Searles , more than even Redgrave and Pinsent , became the heroes of millions of armchair TV viewers as they came from nowhere to win the coxed pairs in the last three strokes of the race . |
| 4 | With him came a young staff officer destined to become one of Germany 's greatest commanders in the Second World War ; Erich von Manstein . |
| 5 | The other part is having coherent policies in the first place . |
| 6 | They fought like wounded lions in the next game ; 20 ; 30 years on Swindon are showing the same spirit . |
| 7 | Laws without strong enforcement are words without deeds , and the tragic truth is that courts in both England and the United States have displayed a general unwillingness to mete out harsh punishment to those found guilty of cruelty to animals and an even greater reluctance to render guilty verdicts in the first place . |
| 8 | Take African sculpture , much admired by European artists in the twentieth century for its bold forms , not representational of the human figure in a Western sense . |
| 9 | During 1950 , as much as two thousand million dollars were contributed , and that amount was increased eight times in the next ten years . |
| 10 | I said that , as brewers never sell beer at a loss , why did not the brewers knock £30 or £40 off the price of a barrel to the tenants of their tied houses in the first place ? |
| 11 | Willie Sparkle can reverse recent form with Strong Views in the last ( 3.40 ) at the Scottish track . |
| 12 | Mind you , England should have been home and clear before that , but poor Barnes , the man who had won the Cup final at Twickenham with a last-minute magical goal kick , could not get a goal from eight attempts in the first half . |
| 13 | Nevertheless the rigidity of the traditional line tactics which dominated most European battlefields in the eighteenth century had been shaken , with important results for the future . |
| 14 | Witness , for example , the wildly discrepant assessments of the effectiveness of allied air-raids in the first days of the war or the ‘ classification error ’ which led to the deaths of hundreds of civilians in Baghdad . |
| 15 | It says that in the fourth quarter of 1991 , there was a threefold increase in the number of stolen cars in the second hand market compared with a year earlier . |
| 16 | There had been a total of eight candidates in the first round of voting on March 4 , after an agreement in December 1989 between the various political groupings to end the previous one-party system . |
| 17 | There is a concern to increase the independence of members and to devise institutional relationships to facilitate a balance of powers that would give the Commons a more effective checking , choosing , and legislating role of the kind it enjoyed prior to the extension of the franchise and the organising implications of political parties in the nineteenth century . |
| 18 | Portsmouth against Swindon … 13 goal Guy Whittingham … takes on 11 goal Craig Maskell … they 're the top scorers in the first division … what a head to head … |
| 19 | Form fancies Swindon , with 50 goals this season , they 're the top scorers in the 2nd division . |
| 20 | They correctly point out ‘ that the half-life of sumatriptan is 2 hours ’ and ‘ the intervals between drug administration and cerebral infarction of 1 week in the first case and 12 hours in the second , exonerate sumatriptan ’ , but they then go on to state ‘ no other risk factor for vascular disease was identified in our patients ’ . |
| 21 | It seemed obvious that the best form of organization for overseas trade was the one that was used first in exporting wool and then by the cloth traders , who still accounted for three-quarters of English exports in the first half of the century : all the merchants involved would sell together at a ‘ staple ’ town , usually in Belgium or the Netherlands , where they could avoid competing with each other and so increase their bargaining strength . |
| 22 | These magical attributes persisted through the ages and died out only with the rise of scientific investigations in the 16th century . |
| 23 | In England and parts of Wales these gave way to more sophisticated detached farmhouses as agriculture improved , coupled with more scientific improvements in the 18th and 19th centuries . |
| 24 | This belief gained wide currency among Sinhalese of all social strata in the twentieth century . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been back to London a few times in the last year , and I 've had some great times there , ’ she enthused . |
| 26 | This is helpful in pointing to long-term shifts in sexual norms in the last century ( though its dating is misleading ) , but it combines both an evolutionist teleology ( with the present appearing as little more than a culmination of ineluctable historical trends ) and a use of the metaphor of repression which in the end is emotive rather than analytical and obscures more than it reveals . |
| 27 | Following disturbances in October 1989 , major stock markets around the world remained strong at the end of the year , with some reaching historical peaks in the last week of 1989 and the first week of 1990 . |
| 28 | By late medieval times in the fourteenth century , British cattle had reached a low point , literally : the average height was about 106cm and they were still generally short-horned . |
| 29 | ‘ Direct taxes in the Third World are levied on those who earn salaries . |
| 30 | The government argued that ‘ if real progress is to be made in tackling some of the major concentrations of problems , special efforts must be focused on a few cities in the next few years ’ ( HMSO , 1977 , p. 16 ) . |