Example sentences of "[num] [coord] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disregarding the influx of early 1956 , which involved about 150 birds and appears quite exceptional , the average number seen per year rose from just over one to 14 between 1952 and 1962 , jumped to 70 or more per year between 1963 and 1972 , and rose to over 100 per year between 1973 and 1976 . |
| 2 | " After about and hour-and-a-half or so of questions etc " Macmillan spent the last hour summing up " the political and military situation ; the problems confronting the Field Marshal and HMG and the equivocal and uncertain attitude of the Americans " . |
| 3 | If all goes well , Beech Road will start at 2-1 or less at Cheltenham as there is no mistaking his superiority . |
| 4 | None at all were recorded in Worcestershire or Cornwall , although there had been forty or more in Bodmin alone which had been the most generous contributors to the rebuilding of the parish church . |
| 5 | Elections for a regional assembly in Kurdistan , intended to strengthen the cohesion of the eight-party Kurdistan Front , were postponed twice from April 3 to April 30 and then to May 17 . |
| 6 | It is used for entry into a holding pattern from sector 2 and also in approach patterns . |
| 7 | If you need a full featured word processor — and while you might like the idea of drawing and charting do you really need them within your word processor — and have the hardware to support it , I think it is a strong competitor to Word for Windows 2 and currently in advance of any others . |
| 8 | By comparing political choices for national and local elections as expressed in November 1985 and again in May 1986 , and contrasting those respondents who lived in areas with elections ( in May 1986 ) with those who lived in places without elections ( in May 1986 ) it was possible to unravel the complexities of the relationships |
| 9 | Any of the following tests would be regarded as suitable proof : Passes in the JMB Test in English ( Overseas ) at grade 3 or better up to June 1989 , the JMB Test in English for Speakers of Other Languages from March 1990 ; the AEB Test in English for Educational Purposes at grade III or better in listening , reading and writing ; the Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English at grade C or better ; the Oxford-Arels Examination ( Higher level ) at Credit or Distinction level ; the IELTS ( British Council/University of Cambridge ) , with an average score of 6 or better and for each component a score of 5 or better ; TOEFL with a score of 550 or better ; the London GCE O level Syllabus B in English Language at grade C or better or in an approved SCE or GCE syllabus in English are acceptable for this purpose . |
| 10 | Substantial flocks were also recorded elsewhere during the period , for example of 100 or more at Burton ponds , Knepp lake , Barcombe Reservoir , and Piddinghoe pond . |
| 11 | The fourth matter upon which the appellants rely , and this is a matter of considerable importance , is that they claim to have been misled by the solicitor who was acting for them during the course of 1991 and particularly in respect of these committal proceedings . |
| 12 | On June 26 and again on July 5 the Soviet military command in Berlin threatened to slow down the repatriation of Soviet soldiers because construction of accommodation for returnees had not yet begun . |
| 13 | Two guerrilla attacks carried out in La Paz , the capital , on Oct. 10 and early on Oct. 11 resulted respectively in an explosion at a United States Marines residence and the destruction of a monument to United States President John F. Kennedy . |
| 14 | The break-in happened between 6.30 and 10.30pm on Thursday night but so far no witnesses have come forward to give more information about the exact time of the raid . |
| 15 | On Oct. 11-13 and again on Oct. 25-27 Turkish forces mounted air and land attacks across the border into northern Iraq . |
| 16 | 310 , 338 and subsequently in Tate Access Floors Inc. v. Boswell [ 1991 ] Ch. 512 , 532 that urgent consideration should be given by Parliament to extending the provisions of section 31(1) of the Theft Act 1968 to other offences which might be committed in the course of financial fraud . |
| 17 | Ruth Hilali , who 's fifty and formerly from Worcester , but now of no fixed address , is charged with stealing more than six thousand pounds from the Kurdish Refugee Association and making a false statement to obtain a passport . |
| 18 | The court said that it was not intended in Seymour to cast doubt on Venna which had used the Cunningham definition ( but was pre-Caldwell ) , and Venna was approved in DPP v Majewski [ 1977 ] AC 443 and seemingly by Lord Diplock himself in Caldwell . |
| 19 | A powerful rivalry developed between them , and the conflicts , first with Louis VI and then with Louis VII , ended only when Joan of Navarre and Champagne , the heir to the countship of Blois-Champagne , married the future king of France , Philip Augustus . |
| 20 | six to eight and again of course it 's hard to say but er , when would the brochure , the sales brochure for that development be printed and available |
| 21 | This had normally been sufficient pretext for direct military intervention , and some action of this kind appears to have been under consideration in December 1980 and again in March 1981 . |
| 22 | HP pooh-poohs Sun 's programme for focusing solely on discounts and wanting to move Domain users to ‘ ageing members of Sun 's product family ’ then on to Sparcstation 10s in two step process that would require going first to Solaris 1.0 and then to Solaris 2.0 . |
| 23 | The organisation wants to increase its investments at the rate of a dozen or so per year . |
| 24 | From the dozen or so per week when the band is in the studio , there will be up to 100 per week as they go on the road . |
| 25 | All those working less than full-time hours ( generally 35 or more per week ) may find themselves barred from pension , profit-sharing and preferential company loan schemes . |
| 26 | The multiplier for manual staff might be unity but it increases with staff level and becomes three or more for management . |
| 27 | But he would have preferred Lord Halifax to Churchill as prime minister in 1940 and even in retrospect believed that the country would have fought the war better under Halifax and that the admirals and the generals would have had a less neurotic time . |
| 28 | We will say more about user involvement in Section 2.8 and further in Section 6.4 . |
| 29 | Having declined Penn 's offer of a lesser post as receiver-general of all proprietarial revenues in the colony , Blackwell returned to Massachusetts in 1690 and then to England in 1693 or 1694 . |
| 30 | In May eighty three and again in May eighty seven Margaret Thatcher chose to go to the country the month after those elections . |