Example sentences of "[noun sg] went [adv] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the wedding went ahead with two hundred or more of their Hollywood friends attending . |
| 2 | Average tax revenue went up from 34 p.c. of national income in 1979 to 40 p.c. in 1982 but this was necessary to eliminate public sector borrowing , which at some 6 p.c. of national income was an implicit ( deferred ) tax rate . |
| 3 | The rent went up to thirty pounds a week . |
| 4 | My mind went back to one particular Saturday evening . |
| 5 | I regret that the seasonally adjusted figure went up by 700 to 121,600 last month , but I remind the hon. Gentleman that in January 1986 , the figure was over 170,000 . |
| 6 | The figure went up from 178 in 1982 to 252 in 1991 . |
| 7 | Odette 's weight went up to 17½ stone before she found the strength she needed to tackle her eating problem . |
| 8 | Figures such as Margaret Thatcher and Edward Heath , on the other hand , have remained remarkably quiet , although the idea of the state visit and some signal honour went back to 1970 — 4 . |
| 9 | The take-off flare went up at 0440 hours and Colonel Seawell was the first away as Group Commander . |
| 10 | The spread of readily available and simple means of contraception has meant that the wife is less likely to spend much of her life in the bearing and rearing of children and is more likely to seek employment outside the home , thereby developing a source of income and interests outside her traditionally defined role : ‘ … in Britain the proportion of all wives in paid work went up from 10 per cent in 1911 ( as it remained in 1931 ) to 26 per cent in 1951 and 42 per cent in 1971 ’ ( Young and Willmott , 1975 , p. 101 ) . |
| 11 | In the present context , what is significant , if not altogether surprising , is that hardly a speech or publication went by between 1920 and 1922 without the most concentrated vitriol being poured upon the Jews . |
| 12 | The investiture went ahead on 1 July and was a splendid and dramatic piece of pageantry ; it was also strangely moving . |
| 13 | Maybe if I was on Sandøya when winter came , when the sun went in for two or three months , when all the water froze , when ice covered the ground and fishing was a risky business of frozen fingers and ears , on water in which survival was measured in seconds , I would be less romantic about it . |
| 14 | The curtain went up at 2 pm , so the children had to arrive at the theatre at about 1.15 to get ready . |
| 15 | A new industrial policy decree went further in 1988 , reflecting the growing opinion among Brazilian industrialists that some form of partnership with a foreign company was often the essential condition of attaining competitiveness abroad and even at home ( Fritsch and Franco , 1988 : pp. 82–4 ) . |
| 16 | For motorists , at six o' clock , the price of petrol and diesel went up by three pence per litre . |
| 17 | Lectures often began as early as 5 or 6 a.m. in the summer ( 7 a.m. in the winter ) , and sometimes the first lecture went on for three hours , no provision being made for any food before 10 a.m . |
| 18 | His handicap went up to six . |
| 19 | His handicap went up to six . |
| 20 | My handicap went up in twos the winters I spent with him . |
| 21 | Simpson , another big-money signing from Oxford , split the defence for Gabbiadini to take on Munday , and cross low , where the ball went in off one of three defenders supposedly guarding the near post . |
| 22 | The cost of bread , rice , flour and meat went up by 300 per cent , as did the prices of children 's clothing ; the cost of milk , eggs , cheese , sugar and tea , and adult clothing , went up by 200 per cent ; fares on public transport went up by between 70 and 140 per cent . |
| 23 | Both road traffic and the overall casualty rate per passenger mile went up by one per cent . |
| 24 | In state primary schools the pupil-teacher ratio went down by 7.5 per cent and in state secondary schools there was a fall of 9.5 per cent , but in the same ten year period the pupil-teacher ratio in independent schools came down by 17.7 per cent . |
| 25 | If that is doing nothing , what were the last Labour Government doing when inflation went up to 27 per cent ? |
| 26 | Police salaries adjusted for inflation went up from 983 million in 1979 when the Conservatives came to power , to 2,378 million by 1987 , a rise of some 47 per cent in real terms . |
| 27 | East Germany 's slender claim to legitimacy rests above all on the fraudulent implication that it is the good non-Nazi , never-Nazi Germany , any Nazi-supporters having joined the four million renegades whose Westward migration almost drained East Germany dry before the Wall went up on 13 August 1961 . |
| 28 | The total fertility rate went up from 2.22 to 2.94 — an increase of 32 per cent . |
| 29 | Septimus Coffin went home at four-fifteen . |
| 30 | The nitrate went down to 10–15 ppm , which is less than our local tapwater . |