Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [adj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the seventeenth century Russia and the Ottoman empire had seemed to many European observers not altogether dissimilar ; and of the two the latter appeared until the 1680s or 1690s clearly the more powerful . |
| 2 | Well he , if he co if he 'd have come down my wa he come down at eight or nine o'clock the shops would have been shut . |
| 3 | These policies had little effect on the Italian birth rate in the period 1930-1932 , and between 1933 and 1937 not a single department showed a rise in fertility ( Glass ) . |
| 4 | Between 1985 and 1990 alone the sculpture index climbed 270% . |
| 5 | A couple of grand prix wins came in 1963 and two more the following year before another highly successful season in 1965 saw three victories and a string of second places for Jackie Stewart and Hill . |
| 6 | Further steps forward were taken in 1875 and 1879 when the ‘ Cross Acts ’ were passed . |
| 7 | Between 1838 and 1859 over a dozen important books were published on the subject as well as a host of articles . |
| 8 | At times ( for example , under Mr Heath ) governments have abandoned economic pricing as part of an anti-inflation programme ; at other times , notably over the price increases in gas between 1980 and 1982 when the Thatcher government each year raised prices 30 per cent above the current rate of inflation , above ‘ economic ’ pricing levels and what the board wished . |
| 9 | Between 1932 and 1939 when the bank rate was 2 per cent , a building society 's advance was normally around 80 per cent of the value of the house spread over fifteen to twenty years at 4 to 6 per cent interest . |
| 10 | Sometimes , Henry thought , it would be kindness itself to rise one night between three and four when the suburb slept and drag a sharp stone across the Mitsubishi 's flanks . |
| 11 | ’ The policy of containment ’ refers to a period between 1946 and 1949 when the Western powers had decided that a stalemate had been reached , with the Soviet Union and that the power of communism had ceased to grow and expand . |
| 12 | Detailed breakdown on wealth figures in Australia are set out in a series of tables in Australian Society include comparative figures for 1984 and 1986 where the total wealth of the richest 118 has increased by 250 per cent — over A$5,000 million — at a time when the total wealth has increased by 20 per cent . |
| 13 | Er but is my honourable aware that employment prospects in Amber valley were devastated by pit closures mainly in the nineteen seventies but that now the area , but that now the area has some of the lowest unemployment in Europe , certainly lower than in Germany and the reason is mainly due to the success of new manufacturing businesses . |
| 14 | Between 1976 and 1986 when the total number of one parent families increased by 35 per cent , families headed by women increased more than families headed by men — almost 40 per cent compared to just over 10 per cent . |
| 15 | On Oct. 17 and 18 respectively the German and Polish lower houses of parliament ( the Bundestag and the Sejm ) ratified the border treaty signed on Nov. 14 , 1990 [ see p. 37867 ] , and the friendship treaty signed on June 17 , 1991 [ see p. 38306 ] . |
| 16 | We shall see how useful this is in Chapters 4 , 5 and 6 where the Chart is used to identify word strings from various kinds of phonemic input . |
| 17 | The foreign ministry which took its place in that year had fifty-one in 1895 , ninety-two in 1911 and 146 when the monarchy collapsed in 1918 . |
| 18 | On Nov. 6 and 7 respectively the House and Senate approved the conference-reconciled version of the human services appropriations bills which they had enacted in September [ see p. 38428 ] . |
| 19 | Until the franchise process is complete for both Channel 3 and 5 even a preliminary sketch is difficult . |
| 20 | In 1978 and 1983 when the UK was in surplus with the rest of the world , a significant deficit was registered with the EC . |
| 21 | In her own words : ‘ I left home on the 9.30 a.m. train to attend a Medau class in London , travelled across to Balham in time for music , followed by the evening of training , then still in track suit back to Paddington for the 10.30 p.m. train , arriving home at 1 or 2 a.m. the next day . |
| 22 | " Even at one or two a.m. the night before , we were not sure we could go there , " said the Queen later . |
| 23 | Between 1871 and 1901 alone the number of towns with populations over 50,000 doubled . |
| 24 | There are early mentions of the Portadown district in Latin documents about Papal taxation in 1296 and 1302 where the references are to Plebs Varren ( or , more familiarly , Ballyoran ) and the name ‘ Ballywarren al' Portadowne ’ is in the Ulster Inquisitions of 1609 but Portadown as a village only came into existence at the Plantation of Ulster . |
| 25 | Run-off elections were held in a second round of voting on Feb. 16 and 23 where no candidate had obtained a simple majority in the first round . |
| 26 | Winter visitors disperse quite rapidly in April and May , and little through passage in spring is shown by the counts in Fig. 2 , except in 1973 and 1974 when a marked movement occurred in the second half of February . |
| 27 | For 1986 , each of the three index futures was underpriced , while for 1987 and 1988 only the MMI was significantly underpriced . |
| 28 | An extreme example was the sharp decline in competitiveness of Japanese industry between 1970 and 1973 when a rising yen pushed up Japanese relative labour costs by one-third . |
| 29 | On Nov. 13 and 17 respectively the court ruled that Stoph , who had not been well enough to attend the previous day and had heart problems , and Mielke were too ill stand trial . |
| 30 | It is illustrated in Figs. 13 and 15 where the overlying acoustically ‘ dead ’ character of the Barren Measures can be distinguished from the subcropping high-frequency reflections of the ‘ Grey ’ Coal Measures . |