Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [noun] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peggy has been a member of the union for twenty three years been a shop steward for eleven years the last nine at K P Foods and also branch quality officer , been a branch committee member and a member of the Midland and East Coast regional council member of the regional Labour women 's conference and she 's been to G M B congress , congress on a number of occasions . |
| 2 | But after 40 minutes the first wave of the military action ended and as dawn broke over the capital there was no sign of a ground operation . |
| 3 | Mixing after 20 seconds the next sequence is also a piece of film on a second playback machine , recorded from Waris Hussein 's last episode : a recapitulation of the previous episode 's cliff-hanger as the TARDIS 's radiation counter edges into the Danger Zone . |
| 4 | By the end of 12 months the first group recorded 20 per cent lower medical claims than the other two , and the savings amounted to six times the cost of the health promotion package they had received . |
| 5 | Five days later the snow melted , and on the morning of 11 February the second massive flood in seven months overtook them ; it was all very well for the town directory to speak in glowing terms of the River Frome teeming with trout , eels , and all manner of fine fish — but to the inhabitants of Pig Street that wretched river too often spelt disaster and despoliation . |
| 6 | By the end of the fifth of seven laps the first two groups had come together and at this stage Albert Shaw ( CB Hire/Kings Moss ) and veteran Eddie Crory ( Whirline West Down ) broke away and opened up a 40-second lead . |
| 7 | It looks like one Henry the Eighth might have discarded for reasons of vanity . |
| 8 | Paragraph 6 of the council 's statement of claim asserts that in the issue of ‘ The Sunday Times ’ for 17 September the third and fourth defendants wrote , and the first and second defendants published : |
| 9 | In 30 cases the first biopsy was taken using a fibreoptic endoscope . |
| 10 | Within 45 minutes the first targets had been seized . |
| 11 | Jackson lived up to Christie 's description of him as ‘ pound for pound perhaps the best athlete in the world ’ as he scorched to victory in the Heysel Stadium in 12.99 secs the seventh fastest of all-time . |
| 12 | Since 7 January the 2nd Shock Army , the southernmost element of the Front , had been playing its part in the general Soviet counter-offensive by pushing northwards north-east of Novgorod , trying to pinch off the deep German salient across the Lovat River between Lake Ladoga and Lake Ilmen , and thus to help relieve Leningrad . |
| 13 | This passed and on 6 August the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima , killing outright some 80 000 people and exposing many thousands more to the longer-term but not less deadly effects of radiation . |
| 14 | On 1 June the first eight-page issue was finally published . |
| 15 | On 15 September the first tanks went into action on the Fourth Army 's front between Combles and Martinpuich . |
| 16 | On 23 April the second defendant took a letter to the plaintiff containing particulars of this offer by Mr. Perot for Caliban . |
| 17 | The ceremony at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum was for the presentation of an old Spitfire that had been hauled out of an English lake and identified as belonging to 71 Squadron the first of the Eagle squadrons formed from American volunteers back in 1940 . |
| 18 | BNP will offer high income multiples of up to four times the first income ( which has to be that of the professional ) plus three times the second . |
| 19 | On 24 May the first batch of 1,000 Serbs had been moved from Viktring , and further lorry loads were leaving the camp during McCreery 's visit . |
| 20 | For 249 Squadron the first introduction to real action on Malta came as something of a shock . |
| 21 | On Feb. 9 the fundamentalist Hindu movement Vishwa Hindu Parishad ( VHP ) agreed to requests from V. P. Singh to delay for four months the next stage of construction of the so-called " Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi " shrine at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh . |
| 22 | At 0630 hours the first of the early risers entered the cookhouse for breakfast . |
| 23 | If everything tumbled into place there was just a chance that they could be on the same ferry as the Renault , at 1330 hours the next day . |
| 24 | I put my name on the list with everyone else , but was absolutely dumbfounded when I was told one day that it had come up , along with that of one of the other Waafs , and if we wanted to go we were to report to RAF Wyton at 10.00 hours the next day . |
| 25 | They lost out unless their cheques arrived in Glasgow by 12 noon the NEXT day . |
| 26 | Indeed , the first Advertisements Regulation Act of 1907 antedated by two years the first Planning Act . |
| 27 | The wind has moderated by 2100 hrs so we start Where we left off , completing the job by 0200 hrs the next morning . |