Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | According to government figures in the first nine months of 1991 the number of immigrants of German origin ( Aussiedler ) fell to 166,786 from 337,394 for the same period of 1990 , but the number of asylum-seekers rose from 143,826 to 169,785 . |
2 | In spite of the decline in the number of average basic hours per week for manual workers from 46 in 1946 to 40 in 1970 , the number of average actual hours which include overtime , declined only by one hour from 47½ to 46½ during the same period . |
3 | The total was 109,373 compared with 101,107 for the same period last year , said the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders . |
4 | The resulting set of lists — which are , in effect , indexes — is shown in Fig. 8.2 for the same records in a data file that have already been shown in Fig.8.1 . |
5 | The shrew 's heart beats almost 1000 times a minute , while the elephant uses up only 30 during the same period . |
6 | or 3,500 MN/m 2 after a few hours . |
7 | I also have ticket No. 1747 of the same batch dated 24th October 1934 , suggesting that they sold 40 of these tickets between those dates . |
8 | We sat on a tree that had been felled and ate some very tasty ham sandwiches -one of the few picnics I have ever been to . |
9 | Similarly , the halt and lame , vividly portrayed in Les invalides in book 2 of the same collection ( 1716–17 ) , are surely destined to proceed slowly rather than at the ‘ fast triple time ’ suggested by Geoffrey Chew in the article ‘ Notation ’ ( 111 , 4 ) in New Grove , where the opening bars of this piece are reproduced in facsimile ( xiii , p.376 ) . |
10 | The real meaning of his ‘ Phillies Blunt ’ cap was revealed on p 30 of the same issue |
11 | It is also assumed that all complex carbohydrate malabsorbed are converted to H 2 with the same degree of rapidity as is the case with lactulose . |
12 | Within the 4 quadrants , there are 2 angles which have the same cosine , 2 with the same sine and 2 with the same tangent . |
13 | Within the 4 quadrants , there are 2 angles which have the same cosine , 2 with the same sine and 2 with the same tangent . |
14 | FSO sold just 99 cars compared with 480 in the same month last year . |
15 | Hers is one of 419 complaints lodged against Thames Valley officers so far this year , up from 300 in the same period last year . |
16 | Towards the end of the 3-day FFA meeting , the Japanese , ‘ in a spirit of goodwill and co-operation' ’ , offered to hold the drift-net fleet for 1989–90 to the same level as the previous season — 60 vessels . |
17 | ‘ If agencies wind up in 1993 at the same level as in 1992 , they 'll be doing well , ’ states Martin Larkin , managing director , Irish International Advertising . |
18 | The May meeting will be on Wednesday 26 May 1993 at the same time in Glasgow Polytechnic . |
19 | Earlier this month the under-16 soccer team reached the last 32 of the All England and Wales Schoolboys competition , playing on the same Bamber Bridge pitch visited by Mr Calvin . |
20 | A court in Pune ( Maharashtra ) on Oct. 24 convicted and sentenced to death two militant Sikh separatists , Harjinda Singh and Sukhdev Singh , for the assassination in Pune in August 1986 of a former Army Chief of Staff Gen. Arun Vaidya [ see p. 35249 ] . |
21 | Latest figures showed a 2.6% fall from 381,969 thefts of and from vehicles between April and June 1991 to 372,081 during the same period this year . |
22 | In the first six months of this year , nineteen people were killed , compared to twenty six during the same period last year . |
23 | Community regulations and certain provisions of the founding treaties ( such as Article 30 of the EEC Treaty on free movement of goods and Article 85 of the same treaty on competition ) have direct effect , which means that they may be relied on directly by any citizen without the need for any intervening national measures to ‘ receive ’ them and indeed without any possibility for national measures to exclude or modify them . |
24 | Moving from a four to a six of the same capacity means smoother running , as individual cylinder explosions are less powerful and a six is inherently better balanced . |
25 | Now an appeal has gone out for more than 100 of the former workers to lodge applications for payment , no matter the circumstances of their claim . |
26 | P&O said that their tourist vehicle trade had rocketed to 45,680 in the first quarter compared to 24,000 in the same period last year . |
27 | Thus in so far as the provisions of the Act of 1987 are ambiguous , guidance can be sought from the Order of 1991 in the same way as guidance can be sought from a later enactment for the construction of an earlier one : Kirkness v. John Hudson & Co . Ltd . |
28 | Could you look also please at page fifty six in the same tag which is home which was forty nine , it carries on to fifty six , we can see there you 've got the same thing but you 've got a drawing there and not a photograph of something that 's in the area , Court Castle in Dorset |
29 | It was one of six in the same building , but because the conversion had been done without planning permission , it did n't officially exist , and they 're saddled with a mortgage of £39,000 . |
30 | The bottom 10 over the same period were , in descending order : Save & Prosper Scotyields ; Henderson High Income ; Scottish Mutual Managed Income ; Fleming European Fledgling ; Save & Prosper High Return ; Prosperity Income & Growth ; Britannia Life Income Growth ; Fidelity Income Plus ; Guardian Royal Exchange Income ; and Scottish National Capital shares . |