Example sentences of "[prep] [prep] [adv] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another key advantage is insulation , say Potton , who claim that their product can yield heat savings of at least a third over a comparable brick home . |
| 2 | It was performance that drew applause from a press corps relieved to be approaching the end of at least the first election campaign this year , and brought smiles to previously glum ministerial faces . |
| 3 | The poor or null stabilizing effect of GpU indicated that , as it had been shown for the E.coli rrnB P 1 promoter ( 8 ) , the appearance of a complex stable to heparin challenge requires the formation of at least the first phosphodiester bond . |
| 4 | Probably a majority would recommend treatment of the female sexual partner(s) with at least the first attack of NSU , but , as with gonorrhoea where up to one third of female gonorrhoea contacts can be shown not to have the disease , such a policy of treatment without diagnosis is bound to lead to a certain amount of overtreatment . |
| 5 | One tape unit will be required to run this procedure , together with at least the next sequential NEWOED tape . |
| 6 | Indeed , it is the implications of the changing age structure of the population of pensionable age and the likelihood of a continuation of that trend into at least the first decade of the twenty-first century which have been the chief concern of social planners and welfare economists , rather than the proportion of the total population entitled to draw retirement pensions . |
| 7 | Nonconformity persisted in the Nicholls dynasty into at least the third generation . |
| 8 | The historical year , now in general use in England for all everyday purposes and many official and ecclesiastical , begins on 1 January , and thus coincides with the Roman civil year which was widely used until at least the seventh century . |
| 9 | From the information in Table 3 find that recall is fairly stable until at least the 14th word when recall is immediate . |
| 10 | There is some evidence of ribbon development along Watling Street on the Strood side of the Medway , but this suburb was probably not large enough to account for the size of the cemeteries , which date from the middle of the first century until at least the third . |
| 11 | In at least the last three types of valid cluster the motivation is to overcome or exploit some kind of market failure . |
| 12 | Cypress Semiconductor Corp is disappointed with its Sparc business , which is falling and impacted its earnings in at least the last quarter : but now it reckons its Pinnacle Sparc shot ( UX No 381 ) will save the day in the second half . |
| 13 | Since the late 1960s most women have had sex before marriage — increasing from at least a third of women who were married in the late 1950s to three-quarters of women married in the early 1970s ( Dunnell 1979 ) . |
| 14 | The idea that there was a golden age of family obligations in the past was born out of a desire to ensure that increasing numbers of elderly people ( and other dependent groups ) in the population did not become too heavy a burden financially upon the wealthier classes ; hence the anxieties about whether working-class people had an adequate sense of ‘ filial affection ’ , which can be documented from at least the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | It is now realised that lesser landowners , or gentry , played a crucial role in all aspects of medieval English history from at least the mid-thirteenth century . |
| 16 | We have evidence from at least the seventeenth century of restraint of births , and there is clear evidence of a planned decline of working-class family size from the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 17 | In fact conflict between Franks and Alamans was probably endemic from at least the fourth century until Clovis 's reign . |
| 18 | I think the er the Home Secretary will be becoming increasingly concerned er if there is n't a a conclusion by mid April but I think maybe er honourable friends on both sides of the house may want to onto when the last date should be . |
| 19 | Such an orientation to problem-solving has been a distinctive feature of English political culture for many centuries , discernible , I would suggest , since at least the thirteenth century . |
| 20 | Although industrialization has tended to eliminate traditional crafts , the non-agricultural element of the rural economy has increased in importance since at least the nineteenth century . |
| 21 | Britain , France , Belgium and Holland had been engaged in the process of capital accumulation from the formation of overseas empires and from the slave trade since at least the sixteenth century . |
| 22 | ( BH ) RIGHT : Churchend Mill formerly stood on a site in use since at least the 14th century . |
| 23 | ( c. 1235–1296 ) , judge , was probably born in or before 1235 in Shropshire , perhaps at Hopton Castle , which his family had held since at least the mid-twelfth century as major knightly tenants of the honour of Clun . |
| 24 | Jeff was obviously on at least a second drink . |
| 25 | Crowfield has appeared quite clearly on at least the last two editions of half mill Sheet 2171CD ( Southern England & Wales ) but does n't appear on the latest Sheet 14 ( East Anglia — Edition 12 ) quarter mill . |
| 26 | A history of attempted suicide is a particular risk factor ( Roy 1982 ; Fernando and Storm 1984 ) , although , as noted above , this applies to at least a third of hospital patients . |
| 27 | ‘ You 've a right to at least a third , maybe more . |
| 28 | It dates back to at least the fifth century BC and is still carried out today at the roadside in parts of Asia . |
| 29 | Such reclining figures , clasping either a cornucopia or an urn ( and sometimes both ) , date back to at least the mid-sixteenth century ( for example at the Villa Lante at Bagnaia in Italy ) and were a commonplace in late seventeenth-century Baroque gardens ( for example at Vaux-le-Vicomte , Versailles and Het Loo ) . |
| 30 | By the time of the French revolution three main classes of diplomat were generally recognised : the ambassador , with or without the title of " extraordinary " ; the envoy or envoy extraordinary , often with the additional designation of " minister plenipotentiary " ; and the resident , or now more commonly minister resident ( the term " minister " as a somewhat vague diplomatic title went back to at least the mid-sixteenth century ) . |