Example sentences of "[num] [adj] [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the second half of the eighteenth century some progress was made , but it was the invention of the bobbin net machine by John Heathcoat ( see Tiverton ) in 1808 that provided the foundation for mechanical lace-making . |
| 2 | Of the observers whom Pope John had decided to invite , there were some forty present when the Council began . |
| 3 | Its first two blast furnaces employing 50 men were upgraded within four years to employ 300 more than the population of the whole parish . |
| 4 | The exposure site was in mid Wales at an altitude of 346 m where the climate is habitually wet and windy ( Andrews , in preparation ) . |
| 5 | Chairman , back in nineteen eighty when the County Council 's original structure plan submission was examined , the panel who subsequently the Secretary of State rejected the proposal for a policy to control development in the open countryside outside the nationally designated areas , primarily to suggest that on the grounds that the agricultural policy in the plan were equally capable of achieving the objectives sort by the proposed open countryside policy . |
| 6 | David Sole extends his record as Scotland 's captain to 22 matches , three more than the figure set by British Lion Ian McLauchlan . |
| 7 | After 21 days growth , xenografts treated with a histamine concentration of 1 mgkg - 1 had significantly raised mean cross sectional areas ( 2.2 greater than the control , p<0.02 , Mann-Whitney ) . |
| 8 | The Home Office says that there are currently 351 staff working at Long Lartin ; 5 more than the level agreed upon with the Prison Officers Association back in may of last year . |
| 9 | At day 21 , histamine had significantly increased the basal growth of MKN45G to 1.6 more than the control , p<0.002 , Mann-Whitney ) and this was significantly reversed by coadministration of cimetidine ( p<0.02 , Mann-Whitney ) . |
| 10 | The village cross , in the Market Place , is believed to be the second cross , the current one being erected in 181 1 after the original was destroyed by workers on the Hull drainage scheme . |
| 11 | Withdrawals were down to £6.42 billion from £7.21 billion in the 1990–91 tax year and were £2.9 billion lower than the peak withdrawal year of 1989–90 . |
| 12 | And it 's all a situation that was predicted back in nineteen eighty eight when the government cut benefits for sixteen and seventeen year olds . |
| 13 | According to the Slovene Red Cross , 36 soldiers had been killed and 160 wounded since the declaration of independence , compared with 10 Slovene civilians and 10 foreigners killed , and 2,316 soldiers and 129 federal police had been captured . |
| 14 | Crawford , who had a bad second lap , lost 76 marks , 50 more than the winner former champion Jordi Tarres . |
| 15 | On 16 April the House Budget Committee reported out a budget resolution that incorporated $15.8 billion in cuts — $20 billion less than the administration had requested — and the battle was now joined for the votes of those who could make or break the president 's programme , the Gypsy Moths and the Boll Weevils . |
| 16 | More than 13,000 people turned up to watch , which is 10,000 more than the standard of play merited and the stadium had all the atmosphere of a crypt — a sad pass for a fixture which used to crackle with excitement and produce play of fire and skill . |
| 17 | This is £9 billion more than the Government forecast only six months ago . |
| 18 | The public sector repaid £3,834 million last month , almost £3 billion more than the City had expected and , after crediting privatisation proceeds of £6.3 billion , the shortfall in government revenue for the first ten months of the current financial year actually fell back to £21.6 billion at the end of January . |
| 19 | They continue then in bundle two from er mid October to mid August nineteen eighty six and the final bundle takes the picture up to the end of the relevant matters in this case er in the early part of nineteen eighty seven after the business was re-sold by the plaintiffs at a loss . |
| 20 | no , no , I was giving you an example to what would happen on the time scale , but let me go back to January nineteen eighty seven , if the brochure was printed in January nineteen eighty seven if the brochure was printed in January nineteen eighty seven and I went to buy in March , April , May nineteen eighty eight , the figures in the service charges would be out of date |
| 21 | I have been puzzling to establish and I have failed , whether on the fourteenth of January nineteen eighty seven when the Secretary of State wrote the notice of approval , which in confirms his view that forty three per hectare is right , whether the use classes order had then been amended . |
| 22 | South African rugby has really come to this : a game for 90 players from the Transvaal , Northern Transvaal , Western Province , Eastern Province , Orange Free State and Natal who get wonderfully reimbursed for the expense of now playing 23 or more first-class fixtures in a season against one another while the rest hardly get a look in . |
| 23 | At the same time this differentiation acts as agent of effective phrasing by tellingly setting off the two heterogeneous themes from one another provided the director is aware of Mozart 's signs and interprets them correctly with greater sharpness for the strokes . |
| 24 | Unlike the traditional software markets where a number of players grew alongside one another as the market expanded , in desktop publishing we have had many fewer successful products and those have tended to totally dominate the market . |
| 25 | The method is to select at least two comparison stars , one brighter than the variable and the other fainter . |
| 26 | In the dressage she lost only 25 points , 13 fewer than the runner-up . |
| 27 | He seemed to play that first nine better than the back nine every day . |
| 28 | Urgent demand for which I totally agree for millions more than the money is available er , as long as all the council says this is our priority of course you can have it . |
| 29 | Dutch farms produce 84 million tons of manure a year , 13 millions more than the land can absorb . |
| 30 | And Edwards ' ten-try haul is only one less than the Rugby League record set by George West for Hull KR against Brookland in 1905 . |