Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [art] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | After 1910 the workers ' movement regathered momentum , and from 1912 the country was hit by wave upon wave of strikes , ever more political in motivation and ever more directly under Bolshevik leadership , culminating in a general strike in St Petersburg on the very eve of the war . |
| 2 | In 1872 , the CWS agreed to do so ; but in 1875 the employees ' right to a bonus was abrogated when delegates to a quarterly meeting of consumers ' societies ‘ swept away the entire bonus system after less than three years ’ trial , and at the same time abolished the United Employees ' Association and the privileges ' — that is , on the purchases of goods — ‘ attached to it , decreeing that employees should share and share alike with other members both as purchasers and as recipients of dividends on their purchases . ’ |
| 3 | In 1991 the Philippines ' Senate had refused to ratify a renegotiated bases treaty , and the US military had been given until the end of 1992 to effect a complete withdrawal . |
| 4 | In 1894 the Ladies ' National Association , veterans of the repeal movement , mounted a campaign to amend the 1885 act to criminalize incest . |
| 5 | In 1610–11 the Hospital , and in 1612 the Clothworkers ' Company , decided to obtain a comprehensive survey of their London estates . |
| 6 | In 1957 a girls ' secondary modern was opened , sharing a large site but not much else either with the boys ' secondary modern or ( still less ) with the Grammar School . |
| 7 | The idea re-emerged in 1972 but was again ( finally ? ) dropped , as too expensive , but at least in 1964 the Ladies ' exposed stairway was rebuilt with a covered staircase , and a new trolley room constructed under . |
| 8 | Central heating was again ( finally ? ) dropped , as too expensive , but at least in 1964 the Ladies ' exposed stairway was rebuilt with a covered staircase , and a new trolley room constructed under . |
| 9 | In 1981 the Readers ' Services Division of the National Library of Scotland conducted a Call-slip analysis and book condition survey . |
| 10 | In 1973 the Ladies ' Committee concerned itself with this seat reporting ‘ It was a pity to leave it in the wet even if only there for the time being ’ . |
| 11 | In 1855 the partners ' output of manufactured iron exceeded 120,000 tons ; they employed 4,000 people and consumed 600,000 tons of coal . |
| 12 | In 1901 the Congregationalists ' Western and Hackney Colleges had only fourteen and twenty-one students respectively while the Baptists ' Nottingham and Bristol colleges had only eleven and twenty-one . |
| 13 | In 1854 a contractors ' consortium , in which the Belgian contractors Parent & Schaecken joined Thomas Brassey [ q.v. ] and Buddicom , undertook to build the Bellegarde tunnel , two-and-a-half-miles long , for the Lyon–Geneva railway , and in 1860 Buddicom and Brassey undertook the conversion of the Rouen to Dieppe railway from single to double track . |
| 14 | Its early locomotives were unreliable , and in 1827 the owners ' committee authorized Hackworth to build a new one to his own design . |
| 15 | In 1988 the Consumers ' Association found that only 25 per cent of parents had attended a parent-teacher association meeting in the past twelve months and only 9 per cent had attended a school governors ' annual meeting . |
| 16 | Whatever the truth may be , it seems certain that for the decade 1900 to 1910 the Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union had little impact upon the living standards of its members on British ships . |
| 17 | Prior to 1968 the veterans ' organisation was called ‘ Fighters for Freedom' ’ which was really an umbrella organisation . |
| 18 | One by one the Parsons ' former friends and acquaintances found reasons not to accept our invitations , and although they claimed to be anxious that we should ‘ get together some time ’ , that time never came . |