Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] it [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul Bedworth , 19 , now studying artificial intelligence at Edinburgh University , allegedly brought the Brussels computer system to a halt after commanding it to make 50,000 phone calls . |
| 2 | In the sixth week of 1845 it held 260 people ; for the same week in 1846 the figure was 320 and in the last year of the Famine 893 . |
| 3 | The canton of Glarus lies between this mountain barrier in the south and , in the north , the Walensee ( lake ) and the Linth Canal which in the short northern plain links Walensee with the eastern extension of Lake Zurich which is known as the Obersee , ( ie , Upper Lake ) The canal also drains former marshland between these two lakes Glarus , though one of the smallest cantons , is often described as an epitomy of Switzerland as a whole in that it has three geographical sectors : a vast area of mountain country , a moderate stretch of rolling upland plateau capable of settlement what the Swiss call Mittel-land ( literally , middle-land ) and a small area of real lowland . |
| 4 | Example ( 3 ) falls down in this respect in that it includes two different activities and outcomes : ‘ to draw up a plan ’ , and ‘ to execute it ’ . |
| 5 | In 1986 it employed 670 people and shipped around US $500 million of systems . |
| 6 | In 1886 it published two stout volumes by Edmund Gurney , Frederic Myers and Frank Podmore on Phantasms of the Living . |
| 7 | ( In 1980 it averaged 28 per cent of family income . ) |
| 8 | Its original membership only included those hiring tools and equipment , but in 1980 it created two new divisions which allowed companies hiring catering and audio visual equipment to join . |
| 9 | In 1990/1 it contributed 27 per cent of all tax receipts — not more , it is important to note . |
| 10 | The entire cycle of wealth and waste , consumption and status buying , accompanied by the deep roar of the capitalist engine turning over ever faster , needed a name by which to handle its concepts and in 1957 it got one . |
| 11 | Operating from one room above Bishopsgate Fire Station from 1968 , by the time Silverman sold out in 1976 it occupied five floors in High Holborn , employed nearly 100 staff and was earning nearly £1m. annually . |
| 12 | In all it received three performances , though because father and son were together at the time their own account of its success was not preserved . |
| 13 | All in all it took two-and-a-half hours to get home . |
| 14 | In 1764 it housed four fulling stocks and two gig mills . |
| 15 | In 1981 it launched one of Japan 's most precise assembly robots , capable of inserting objects into 0.5 mm-diameter holes and of performing delicate laser welding . |
| 16 | In 1987 it had 16 sites and 15,000 workers ; now it has 11 sites and 11,000 workers . |
| 17 | We can see from the annual average figures that sterling 's effective exchange rate has fallen since 1975 ( 1975 = 100 ) and in 1987 it averaged 72.6 — depreciation of 27 per cent . |
| 18 | In 1987 it won 27 per cent of the Birzeit student vote , 85 per cent of the Hebron University vote , and over 40 per cent of the vote at al Najah , where the threat of violence between secular and religious students provoked the voluntary closure of the university until feelings had sufficiently abated . |
| 19 | Where the town in 1440 has 13 churches , in 1840 it has 7 , all new-built , for in nineteenth century England more churches were erected than in any other century since the middle ages . |
| 20 | In 1900 it had nine ! |
| 21 | In particular it distinguished two forms of such training and education : We stress the range of educational provision that is relevant to vocational training in the broadest sense and to the developing needs of young people . |
| 22 | Furthermore , it gave valuable information about the Permian sequence ; in particular it penetrated 370 ft of Upper Permian salt , and the 1800 ft of lavas and tuffs believed to be Lower Permian . |
| 23 | In 1950 the USA produced seven times as many manufactures as Germany and over 20 times as many as Japan ; in 1953 it exported five times as many manufactures as Germany and 17 times as many as Japan . |
| 24 | In 1563 it killed one in every five Londoners . |
| 25 | In 1982 it arrived five months early and , in addition , was one of the strongest events of this kind observed in the present century . |
| 26 | In 1983 it acquired 3,965 hectares in 549 parcels throughout the Auvergne ( half of them under 1 hectare each ) ; 2,439 hectares in 315 parcels was within the LFA Zone de Montagne . |
| 27 | In 1988 it allowed thirteen very small parties to secure 41 of the Knesset 's 120 seats . |
| 28 | The government 's budgetary deficit went up six- or seven-fold , its ability to back paper money with gold went down by more than 50 per cent , and in 1856 it spent 84 per cent of its income on debt repayments and the armed forces , but the private sector suffered less severely than the Treasury and people who engaged in industry or commerce positively benefited . |
| 29 | By 1737 it included 33 ships of the line . |
| 30 | The success of BEFIEX can be judged by the fact that by 1985 it covered 40 per cent of all manufactures , with a significant increase of the net trade generated ( Fritsch and Franco , 1988 : p. 116 ) . |