Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They still did n't want both openers out for ducks in the first two overs , nor Jones to follow for 5 . |
| 2 | The word ‘ object ’ amuses me because no-one talked about objects in the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | The Big Six are in an unassailable position and no new firm formed through mergers in the second tier will ever be able to catch up with them , according to former Arthur Andersen senior partner Ian Hay Davison . |
| 4 | The Dutchmen of New Amsterdam were the first community of any substance outside the British Isles to be absorbed into England 's possession by conquest but they were close enough to the English in religion — the line of really intense division between groups in the seventeenth century — for there to be no prolonged resistance . |
| 5 | Search unemployment can be seen as part of the annual turnover of the job market — firms rid themselves of workers who have proved to be unproductive or unsatisfactory in some way , and workers quit jobs which have failed to meet their expectations or which were intended only as stop-gaps in the first place . |
| 6 | Only David Platt can rival the Sheffield Wednesday pair for caps in the last three years . |
| 7 | The Royal Navy became a popular career for Scots in the eighteenth century , from about the period of the American Revolution onwards , and it was a particularly apt choice for a gentleman of small means for it was a less expensive profession than that of an army officer . |
| 8 | The Parliamentary Recruiting Committee ran the national campaign for recruits in the first eighteen months of the war , through party rather than national channels . |
| 9 | The 1936–37 season back home was Darling 's last , but it embraced three fine achievements at the MCG : centuries in the South Australia and Queensland matches , and a recall for the third Test match , in which Australia began their fightback after losses in the first two Tests . |
| 10 | Both the Britons ' and the IFL literature contained lurid tales of alleged Jewish responsibility for crime , the white slave traffic , for casualties in the First World War , for corrupting public life and for financial malpractices and banking irregularity . |
| 11 | Cakes , Easter gifts and toys contributed £75 to club funds , while the Traidcraft stall was making money for communities in the Third World . |
| 12 | I have discouraged the use of adjectives in the last two chapters but here you can see them used with superb skill . |
| 13 | Karsten foresees a mass culling of products in the next six months and a polarisation into four big brands : Guinness ' alcohol-free lager Kaliber , Bass ' low-alcohol market leader Tennents LA , Whitbread 's White Label low-alcohol bitter and his own Clausthaler as the ‘ premium imported ’ brand . |
| 14 | The Domesday Book gives a good indication of the status of certain places as caputs at the heads of estates in the eleventh century . |
| 15 | Slowly the exterior background settings for religious paintings , the major activity of artists in the seventeenth century , took on more detailed contours and established geographic as well as topographic influences that we still see in some forms of landscape painting today . |
| 16 | All this raises the question of why the Reagan administration wants to quit the business of satellites in the first place . |
| 17 | Similarly , responses to us in writing within six weeks of referral rose from 25% of cases in the first audit to 60% in the second . |
| 18 | The value of exports in the last three months was 13 per cent higher than at the corresponding stage last year , and volume alone was 11 per cent up , while imports were 20 per cent more in value and 15 per cent up by volume . |
| 19 | When , under the hail of bombs in the last phase of the war , some Nazi cranks and fanatics sent letters to the Propaganda Ministry , extraordinary even for the Third Reich in the depths of inhumanity they plumbed , suggesting the shooting or burning of Jews in retaliation for allied air raids , it was occasionally specifically requested that the ‘ suggestions ’ be sent on to Hitler . |
| 20 | Students have the opportunity to study a broad range of subjects in the first year including economics , law , accounting , information processing and statistics . |
| 21 | Despite losses in the fourth quarter marginally lower at $2.7m ( 1991 : $2.8m loss ) the deficit at the full year was up from $9.1m to $12.5m , largely reflecting adverse currency movements in Brazil . |
| 22 | The progressive dominance of print since the invention of the mechanised production of books in the fifteenth century has given us a very prosaic and flat image of the Bible that hides its true nature . |
| 23 | BRITISH National Party leaflets calling for the re-introduction of hanging and forced repatriation will be sent to thousands of homes in the next few weeks . |
| 24 | With a more than halving of losses in the second quarter to $48.7m ( 1992 : $100.2m loss ) , the worldwide underwriting deficit at the mid year was down by $106.2m from $235.2m ( representing 12.3% of premiums ) to $129.0m ( 6.1% of premiums ) , a reduction due largely to a substantial improvement in the UK result . |
| 25 | Following a doubling of losses in the fourth quarter to $8.8m ( 1991 : $4.4m loss ) , the deficit in European territories at the full year was up by almost a third from $27.7m to $36.7m . |
| 26 | COLONEL FRANK MORGAN , who has died aged 99 , served with the Imperial Camel Corps in the campaigns against the Turks in the First World War , and with the Royal Corps of Signals in the Second . |
| 27 | Whether or not his opinions actually percolated down to subordinate commanders many of them seemed to share his beliefs about keeping the French out , or at least , in an interesting reversal of roles in the First World War , treating France as an associated rather than an allied power . |
| 28 | She followed this advice and had no further attacks of herpes in the next six months . |
| 29 | Yet even by the standards of the day , it seems extraordinary that Joyce should have thought the British people at large would respond sympathetically to his shrill and truculent celebration of the fate of Jews in the first year of Hitler 's dictatorship . |
| 30 | In the first half we attacked the Kop end and hopes were high that Crewe would conceed a bagful of goals in the first half when Deane actually managed to score in the 17th minute . |