Example sentences of "[prep] [num] come the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then in the spring of 1980 came the disaster of the rescue mission , with agonising pictures of wrecked helicopters and charred bodies across the pages of every newspaper and on every television channel . |
| 2 | In 1891 came the publication of the encyclical Rerum Novarum . |
| 3 | In 1891 came the publication of African Aphorisms , or Saws from Swahililand , an annotated collection of some 600 proverbs ; the work ( reissued in 1924 ) provided an outlet for his immense erudition , and became recognized as a classic in the domain of Swahili studies . |
| 4 | In 1971 came the details of the My Lai Massacre , when American troops had killed over 100 civilians in one village . |
| 5 | Then in 1986 came the opportunity to set up independently with Tim Hely Hutchinson and Sue Fletcher . |
| 6 | In 1963 came the signing of the Anglo-French agreement to build Concorde ( or ‘ Concord ’ as it was at first spelled in Britain ) , and the video faithfully traces it right back to the earliest days of its conception . |
| 7 | In 1933 , Parker brought out the Vacumatic , a fountain pen without an ink sac , and in 1941 came the Parker 51 , the most famous pen in the world — so streamlined it was advertised as the ‘ pen from another planet ’ . |
| 8 | Then in 1981 came the bombshell . |
| 9 | In 1951 came the excitement of the MEdaus ' visit ; the next year Hilda became the Society 's first reassurer ; then in preparation for her move to Weston-Super-Mare in 1961 , she took the leaders ' training . |
| 10 | In 1989 came the opening of the Windsor Link connection in the Manchester area . |