Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [pers pn] [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the impressionable age of fourteen she spent twelve days in Geneva , and soon fell under Malan 's spell : |
| 2 | By the end of 1981 we had 310 collections and reckoned to have covered about three-quarters of the region . |
| 3 | During the summer of 1521 he produced one of his writings entitled ‘ In Defence of the Seven Sacraments , ’ exposing the heresies of the German Protestant , Martin Luther , and he dedicated the writing to Pope Leo X , from whence the King was known as ‘ The Defender of the Faith ’ . |
| 4 | In the sixth week of 1845 it held 260 people ; for the same week in 1846 the figure was 320 and in the last year of the Famine 893 . |
| 5 | and to make up the weight instead of five he sent six to make the weight up . |
| 6 | The Russia of 1880 lifted less than 1.5 per cent of Europe 's coal ; to the greatly enlarged production of 1900 she contributed 3.6 per cent — about four and a half times as much . |
| 7 | His weight increased rapidly from an early age — the result of a natural physical disorder , not over-indulgence — and at the age of 23 he weighed 32 stone . |
| 8 | Twelve shared out between three you get four . |
| 9 | During 1785 he made six more balloon flights , notably taking William Windham , MP [ q.v. ] , as a passenger on 5 May , but then gave up ballooning for twenty-five years . |
| 10 | In 1875 he gave four lectures on his discoveries at the Royal Institution , and 1877 saw the publication of his book , Discoveries at Ephesus ; a second book , Discoveries on the Site of Ancient Ephesus , published posthumously in 1890 , added little to the earlier work . |
| 11 | In 1736 he received two commissions from Graham : the construction of a nine-feet zenith sector ( the arc of which Graham divided himself ) for the French Académie des Sciences expedition to Lapland under Pierre de Maupertuis to measure the length of a degree of the meridian ; and preparing brass rods and scales for the Royal Society and the Académie for new standards to show the relation between the English yard and the French half-toise . |
| 12 | In 1838 they had 38 hand looms in use , as well as two power versions . |
| 13 | After retiring in 1971 he spent two very enjoyable years in an advisory position to the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur . |
| 14 | In 1986 it employed 670 people and shipped around US $500 million of systems . |
| 15 | In 1986 he bagged 118 first-class victims at 18 apiece and , as long as he can maintain a fair degree of fitness this season , a second 100-wicket tally looks very much on the cards . |
| 16 | When Everton 's title aspirations exploded at Oxford in 1986 he blamed two misses on a new pair of boots , switching back to his worn favourites and slamming a hat-trick past Southampton ! |
| 17 | In introducing a workshop on ‘ modularity and credit accumulation ’ in 1986 he identified two broad phases : |
| 18 | In 1886 it published two stout volumes by Edmund Gurney , Frederic Myers and Frank Podmore on Phantasms of the Living . |
| 19 | In 1799 he spent two days in what he called ‘ proud Gallio-like Portadown ’ . |
| 20 | ( In 1980 it averaged 28 per cent of family income . ) |
| 21 | Its original membership only included those hiring tools and equipment , but in 1980 it created two new divisions which allowed companies hiring catering and audio visual equipment to join . |
| 22 | After Thebes swallowed up Plataia in 427 she controlled four Boiotarchs and 240 councillors . |
| 23 | In 1903 he sold four sets of kites to the Admiralty ; in 1905 the army ordered kites , and engaged Cody to instruct the Royal Engineers in their operation . |
| 24 | In 1987-88 they received 7 per cent and in 1988-89 , 8.9 per cent ( or the rate of inflation plus 2.5 per cent ) . |
| 25 | On his death in 1985 he left two gold watches to his sons . |
| 26 | Yet , after becoming dean of York in 1406 he did one more reshuffle of his holdings , then never changed them again . |
| 27 | In 1828 he began five years as an apprentice apothecary with the Apothecaries ' Company of London . |
| 28 | In 1969 he scored four in an FA Cup game against Crystal Palace . |
| 29 | Then , setting up in practice on his own c .1806 , he was employed at Heaton Hall , Lancashire , where both James and Samuel had worked previously ; and on Samuel 's death in 1807 he completed two of his commissions , Tatton Park , Cheshire , and Hackwood Park , Hampshire , and in effect succeeded to his practice in the Cheshire area . |
| 30 | In 1990/1 it contributed 27 per cent of all tax receipts — not more , it is important to note . |