Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the late 1989 and 1990 West German elections for the state legislatures , the Republicans ' support sank below the 5 per cent hurdle necessary for parliamentary representation . |
| 2 | If two such solutions were displayed as in Fig. 24.2(b) , the overall impression given would be the same ; however , sufficiently long after initiation , the times at which the changes of level occurred in the two solutions would be totally uncorrelated . |
| 3 | The concept of a Common Market is not new , the term arose in the 1950s , to describe an area where there exists free movement of goods , services , capital and labour . |
| 4 | The research now available shows that crime tripled between the two world wars , particularly at the time of the great depression . |
| 5 | A notable example among many of government intervention to avoid strike action occurred in the 1954 pay negotiations . |
| 6 | Most talk occurred among the four non-Wesleyan groups although in 1886 Hughes and his Methodist Times began urging a total reunion which would create one church . |
| 7 | Do you think there 's a danger that the West could undermine Gorbachev 's position particularly with the delicate situation over Lithuania , if it 's not prepared to support moves to try and get tension reduced between the two blocks ? |
| 8 | The main thrust for use of videos as an aid came from the three Welsh areas — just under three-quarters seeing it as an aid that could improve training . |
| 9 | In the UNIP contest for the 1979 presidential nomination , when both Kapwepwe and Nkumbula challenged him , Kaunda showed that he was not prepared to tolerate any real alternative to himself , even when the bid came from the two most experienced politicians in the country . |
| 10 | Dusky light came from the two small front windows between the toothed leaves of nettles . |
| 11 | It will be evident from the dates of most of these references that this kind of training and the supporting research flourished in the 1960s . |
| 12 | The mockery consisted of the one major taunt : that Jesus should save himself because he was ( i ) the Messiah , the Chosen One ; and ( ii ) the King of the Jews . |
| 13 | Labour began in the 1890s because the Liberal Party failed to respond to social change . |
| 14 | It has been overtaken by local practices and informal agreements — and that has been the case since mechanisation of the industry began in the 1950s . |
| 15 | Chartering aircraft for pleasure began in the 1920s . |
| 16 | During the early part of this century , the major fishery was for sardines , but local stocks suffered and the industry collapsed in the 1940s . |
| 17 | BELOW : Savery 's pin manufactory ; the water wheel survived until the 1960s . |
| 18 | The Club proceeded in the mid-60 's with what is its most recent major course alteration , the re-arrangement of four holes . |
| 19 | Both the Express and the Mail went into the 1970s with an ageing readership , for they failed to replace their old readers with young new ones in the same numbers . |
| 20 | In the end the European side went into the 12 singles matches with a two point lead ( 9-7 ) but only after two Yorkshiremen had produced a rearguard action at the end of the day which even General Custer would have been proud of . |
| 21 | Frank Card went to the 1991 Conference of the Consumer Credit Association of the UK in October |
| 22 | The catalogue includes individual articles on goldsmiths ' work , ceramics , coins , textiles , gardens , literary and theatrical culture , and , most importantly , case studies of the families whose patronage resulted in the two palaces housing the exhibitions , the Grimaldi , the Spinola , the Balbi and the Durazzo . |
| 23 | The ‘ enhanced Programme resulted from the 1978 Inner Urban Areas Act , based on a White Paper , published the previous year , on Policy for the Inner Cities ( DoE , 1977 ) , the first comprehensive policy statement on the subject to acknowledge it as a definable and cohesive problem . |
| 24 | The Harman study looked at the ninety-six cases which had been decided by the Registered Homes Tribunal between 1985 and 1989 . |
| 25 | Perhaps the most difficult of all was Poland where , as a French secret agent complained in the 1670s , the court " ran about like a troop of gipsies " . |
| 26 | The friendship continued between the two men , and indeed lasted until the Emperor 's death in 1873 , through all Louis-Napoleon 's changes in fortune , providing Malmesbury with an entrée to French government circles whether in office or out of it . |
| 27 | In the nineteenth century the Gunton Park was essentially a dairy herd and here the emphasis on a good milk yield at 4 per cent butterfat continued into the 1930s and 1940s , when the rest of the breeders were changing from dairy to dual-purpose types . |
| 28 | The industry lasted until the 1870s when more efficient technology elsewhere replaced it ; the great millstones now form part of the garage walls and garden decorations of Powdermill House and Peppering Eye Farm , south-west of the town . |
| 29 | The fighting spread from the two helpless ships to the third rammed behind them , now cramped fast with a grappling-iron and rocking with incomers from the two dying vessels ahead . |
| 30 | In the twentieth century a combination of economic change and government regulations reduced the profitability of cattle stealing , and when the crime revived in the 1930s there was little the authorities could do in face of nationalist feeling and the economic pressures of the depression . |