Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They abandoned as unrealistic the " 50 per cent gap reduction " formula for eleven zones with the most damaged soils , forest and lakes . |
| 2 | With West Indies 125 for 6 off fifty overs at the close of the first day , things looked good for England , but next morning Marshall and Dujon threw the bat and took the total to 178 , which in the conditions was not that bad . |
| 3 | This disenfranchising policy will be taken a stage further in the political domain , with the linking for the first time for fifty years of the right to vote with the payment of contributions to local government exchequers . |
| 4 | The proponents of the law had proposed a fee of 5% of the sale price of the object to be paid to artists or their survivors for fifty years after the artist 's death . |
| 5 | As a rule the right is first vested in the author , and continues for fifty years after his death ; but in the case of photographs and gramophone records the original owner of the negative or plate is treated as the author , and the right lasts for fifty years from the time when the negative or plate was made . |
| 6 | Copyright in a work lasts for fifty years from the end of the calendar year in which its author or composer dies . |
| 7 | The other discovery we are making is of that world cut off from us for fifty years by the Iron Curtain ; Simon Jervis 's otherwise excellent Penguin Dictionary of Design and Designers published in 1984 does not include a single one of the leading names in Czech Cubist design : Josef Gocar , Pavel Janak , Vlastislav Hofman , Josef Chochol and Otakar Novotny . |
| 8 | The waterfall , however , is a hundred yards downriver and is best reached by walking back along the road for fifty yards to the end of a wall , where a step down in the undergrowth discloses a good path high on the river bank above a deep gorge , the waterfall soon being seen through a canopy of foliage . |
| 9 | He was on the other side of the road , saw me watching him , stopped , turned and walked slowly for fifty yards in the direction he had come . |
| 10 | My reason for being there was that this particular bit of coast happens to be the northern end of the Offa 's Dyke footpath , which winds for 168 miles along the English/Welsh border to Chepstow . |
| 11 | Centre manager Malcolm Powton said he hoped for 500 visitors for the party day , including Durham County Council 's director of social services , Peter Kemp . |
| 12 | The original memorandum of understanding worked out after the Gulf war [ see p. 38598 ] had provided for 500 guards in the north and 600 relief workers . |
| 13 | A MAN was fighting for his life last night after being carried for 500 yards on the bonnet of a hit-and-run car . |
| 14 | However , 100% supervision , even of early solo flying , is impractical for 365 days in the year as there are bound to be moments when the instructor 's attention is diverted . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , we were unable to book a proposed two-day conference for 70 delegates within the next three months . |
| 16 | The court heard that when the Deputy County Engineer inspected the dump site on 15 April , he found four bags of pelleted asbestos exposed on the site , pellets scattered on part of the site and for 70 yards along the access road and one pellet at the entrance gate to the site . |
| 17 | Total vitamin C concentrations were determined by a modification of our original technique after reduction of dehydroascorbic acid to ascorbic acid at 45°C for 120 minutes in the presence of excess dithiothreitol . |
| 18 | It started about 500 feet above the ground and could have continued all the way up to the stratosphere , for all any one of us , peering hopefully upwards , could tell . |
| 19 | Final results for 498 seats in the Chamber of Deputies were as follows : PMDB 109 ( pre-election 130 ) ; PFL 92 ( 90 ) ; PDT 41 ( 31 ) ; PRN 41 ( 31 ) ; PDS 40 ( 32 ) ; Social Democratic Party of Brazil ( PSDB ) 37 ( 60 ) ; PT 34 ( 17 ) ; PTB 33 ( 28 ) ; Partido Democrata Cristao ( PDC ) 21 ( 15 ) ; Liberal Party ( PL ) 15 ( 13 ) ; Brazilian Socialist Party ( PSB ) 12 ( 8 ) ; Communist Party of Brazil ( PC do B ) five ( six ) ; Social Reform Party ( PRS ) 4 ( 7 ) ; Brazilian Communist Party ( PCB ) 3 ( 3 ) ; others 11 ( identified by acronyms as PSC 5 , PTR 2 , PST 2 , PMN 1 , PDS 1 ) . |
| 20 | Sue , of Baguley , of Greater Manchester , said : ‘ Our engagement was called off eight weeks before the blast . |
| 21 | Indeed , the average flow , as a percentage of GDP , for eight countries in the sample before 1914 was 3.25 per cent a year ; the average flow for ten countries post-1965 was only 1 per cent ( 2 ) . |
| 22 | CRAIG WHITEHEAD , a Nottingham City forward , was yesterday banned for eight matches for the elbow tackle which smashed Jason Ramshaw 's jaw , nose and cheekbone , and also may face a private prosecution on behalf of the 20-year-old Halifax player . |
| 23 | He waited with her for eight hours at the Northampton car park . |
| 24 | He waited with her for eight hours at the Northampton car park . |
| 25 | The proposed courses for the next term confirm that the college will be only using fifty percent of the available time and space for eight months of the year . |
| 26 | The day began with the men 's semi final , 28 qualifiers competing for eight places in the final . |
| 27 | In 1965 I came to work with Basil as an art adviser in the West Riding after lecturing for eight years at the Froebel Institute in Roehampton . |
| 28 | We have been negotiating for eight years with the Faroese authorities in an effort to get them to stop , without success . |
| 29 | Left wing Labour MP for Sheffield Brightside from 1974–87 , she had been a senior officer in the agricultural workers union and was chair for eight years of the Campaign Group of Labour Mps . |
| 30 | The house was built by an Edwardian doctor using only the best materials — oak cured for eight years for the lower rooms ' panelling , fine teak for the window frames and mahogany for the fireplace . |