Example sentences of "[num] [coord] [adj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | On Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday August 30 and 31 the vintage transport weekend — modelled on the highly popular Enthusiasts ' Weekend in April this year . |
2 | As a result of the cut-back in production by the steel industry 's customers and the ‘ dumping ’ of subsidized special steel imports , the numbers of people employed in metal manufacture have declined enormously in recent years : between mid-1979 and mid-1983 the reduction in the numbers employed in this sector was greater than in any other sector of the economy ( Department of Employment 1983 : 511 ) . |
3 | Between 1916–17 and 1927 the setting for this particular drama was the bourgeois educational system of the Third Republic . |
4 | Between 1965/6 and 1976/6 the number of students in higher education increased by 71 per cent : an 89 per cent increase in the universities and a 58 per cent increase in the polytechnics and colleges . |
5 | Possible dissonances ( tones ) are well separated , and by becoming sevenths and ninths the strength of conflict is reduced . |
6 | BP and Conoco each have a 50 per cent share in Viking which has been in production since 1972 and all the gas was sold to British Gas for a fairly low price in present terms . |
7 | While the proportion of the population aged 65 + receiving community nursing doubled between 1972 and 1985 the situation for health visiting remained constant . |
8 | Between 1972 and 1984 the Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) provided financial assistance to industry for mineral exploration in Great Britain through the Mineral Exploration and Investment Grants Act 1972 ( MEG ) . |
9 | In France , where between 1801 and 1881 the population grew by 40 per cent , the population of Paris grew by 134 per cent . |
10 | Between 1801 and 1851 the area 's population doubled and it doubled again from 1851 to 1921 , the year that saw the culmination of the first phase of the town 's development as a capitalist urban locality . |
11 | During 1963–83 and 1984–90 the incidence of malignant disease , particularly lymphoid leukaemia and non-Hodgkin lymphomas , in young people aged 0–24 in Seascale was higher than would be expected on the basis of either national rates or those for the surrounding areas . |
12 | As in the 1830s and 1840s the discourse of social investigation , circulated by novelists and journalists , social scientists and government commissioners , represented working-class immorality as a major source of anxiety . |
13 | In lanes 9,10 and 12 the input probe only is seen while in lane 11 a new double stranded product can be seen and is indicated by the arrow . |
14 | Between 1985 and 2025 the number of pensioners was set to rise from 9 million to over 12 million ; and the total cost of pensions for the public would rise from £17 billion a year to almost £36 billion if pensions were linked with prices and to a colossal £50 billion if they were linked , as Labour wanted , to the higher of either prices or earnings . |
15 | Between 1985 and 2025 the population of the developing world is expected to increase from 3.7 billion to 6.8 billion , of whom well over half will live in those hotbeds of aspiration and discontent , the cities . |
16 | But between 1985 and 1989 the holiday accommodation on the Algarve doubled , cramming resorts such as Vilamoura and Quarteira with highrise apartment blocks still shadowed by cranes from building sites . |
17 | Between 1985 and 1989 the dollar value of exports more than doubled ; planners excitedly began to talk about Korea becoming a creditor nation . |
18 | Certainly it is one of the few areas of growth : between 1985 and 1990 the advertising spend in Britain grew 75 per cent , but the spend on direct mail grew 101 per cent . |
19 | Between 1403 and 1502 the number of new foundations fell to 120 and the downward trend continued into the sixteenth century with only thirteen new foundations between 1503 and 1547 , the year of the Chantries Act . |
20 | Between 1982/83 and 1984/85 the level of taxation remained relatively stable . |
21 | Central to child-rearing from the cultural point of view , as we have seen , is that by the time he is six or seven the child should have been able to recapitulate within his own personal psychological development the development history of his culture . |
22 | Between 1979 and 1987 the proportion of unemployed men who received supplementary benefit alone increased from 43 per cent to 61.4 per cent . |
23 | Between 1979 and 1987 the number of inpatients treated in English hospitals went up by a quarter and day cases by almost 60 per cent . |
24 | Between 1979 and 1986 the UK 's portfolio investments overseas rose as the annual outflow increased . |
25 | Between 1979 and 1986 the number of private residential homes in Great Britain increased by an average of 18.1 per cent a year . |
26 | Between 1979 and 1989 the reduction in public-sector employment , extension of private home-ownership ( up from 55 per cent to 65 per cent ) and share-ownership ( up from 7 per cent to 22 per cent ) , increasing scope for private provision of services , and run-down of trade union membership ( down from 54 per cent to 46 per cent of the workforce ) have all been government objectives . |
27 | The stockbrokers Phillips and Drew estimated that between 1979 and 1989 the proportion of shares in private hands fell from 33% to 18% . |
28 | Between 1979 and 1999 the number increased from 55,300 to 97,900 , a rise of over 70 per cent . |
29 | Between 1979 and 1985 the proportion of wealth , held by the most wealthy 1 per cent fell by only 2 per cent . |
30 | Whereas in 1660 and 1688 the alternative to the existing regime seemed positively attractive to a wide range of people , the same simply was not the case in 1715 . |