Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are twelve miles from the border agreed to in 1925 between the British and the Irish . |
| 2 | He retired from practice at the bar in the summer of 1802 at the age of fifty after a long and painful illness , having made a fortune . |
| 3 | Forsbrand came home in 30 for a 66 that put him on ten under par 134 but said : ‘ I 've never shot 29 for nine holes and I missed a four footer on the last . ’ |
| 4 | The only modifications to the logic discussed above are that the code for ‘ square occupied ’ is no longer 1 , but is the actual stream number ( 1 for the first stream , 2 for the second and so on ) . |
| 5 | Even as Davies Gilbert spoke , discussions were beginning which led to the setting up in 1808 of the British and Foreign School Society . |
| 6 | This involves a radical restructuring of the organisation , with devolution into local authority or private management of up to 203 of the 350 or so historic sites now in English Heritage 's care ; the eventual redundancy of nearly 500 staff ( more than one quarter of the total ) ; and the handover of powers to influence decisions on Grade II listed buildings in London , powers inherited in 1986 from the now defunct Greater London Council . |
| 7 | Forming the impedances Z 1 and Z 2 of the inverting or noninverting configuration from more complicated combinations of reactances and resistances yields more intricate filtering . |
| 8 | Thus in 1676 an estimated 300 of the 3,000 or so communicants in the industrial parish of Sheffield were said to be Dissenters . |
| 9 | As they passed her table , she heard the older woman counting one-two-three , one-two-three like a jolly and exasperated gym teacher . |
| 10 | St Mark 's is of particular architectural interest , being a Regency church of 1825 with a spectacular and highly ornate Victorian interior by Blomfield , dating from the 1870s . |
| 11 | In addition to the 35,000 UK personnel already in the Gulf area by the outbreak of hostilities — comprising the main 1st Armoured Division and support , naval and air units — extra servicemen and servicewomen and equipment were deployed to the area during the latter half of January ( including three battalions to guard Iraqi prisoners of war who might be taken ) , bringing the total , when all such forces were in place , to about 42,000 ; there were also another 7,500 in the Mediterranean and in the near east . |
| 12 | 2 In the ancient and medieval worlds coins were made by hand . |
| 13 | This assumption allows Lucas to measure as the deviation of actual real output , from the value predicted from a regression of on a constant and time ( where time might take the value of 1 in the first year of the data period , 2 in the second and so on ) . |
| 14 | He dominated the tie-break 7–2 and after allowing seventh-seeded Chang to hold his first service game of the third set , Sampras went on an amazing burst , running off 11 games in a row to lead 5–0 in the fourth before Chang won another game . |
| 15 | The keeper of Natural History was Ramsay Traquair , an authority on fossil fishes from the 1890s to the 1920s and the museum became a Mecca for Stan always hungry to learn more . |
| 16 | The reference in Article 2 to the judicial or other adjudicatory authority before which proceedings are held would seem , by a similar process of reasoning , not to cover all the courts and official tribunals of the state of origin . |
| 17 | A charter of Hlothhere , however , refers to 1 April 675 as ‘ in the first year of our reign ’ ( CS 36 : S 7 ) , which means that he became king in 674 at the earliest and 17 September in his seventh year can have fallen no earlier than 680 . |
| 18 | Hamilton took a 2 at the first and then stole a single . |
| 19 | He had gone 3 , 2 at the 11th and 12th , then followed it with a three at the 14th , where he hit an eight-iron to a yard . |
| 20 | I refer to your letter of 11 March 1993 concerning the above and the use of Media Action to organise an information type campaign over a period of possibly one week . |
| 21 | I refer to your memorandum of 13 May 1993 concerning the above and have set out below my comments on the recent campaign undertaken by Media Action . |
| 22 | Eleven of the working-class and fourteen of the middle-class housewives had washing machines : use of a machine in one 's own home lightens the task . |
| 23 | This commemorates the creation in 1829 of a political and military post to govern the islands . |
| 24 | The diversity of munition products is exemplified by , on the one hand , the gun and aperture sights for the American Lewis guns , high precision work ( they had to be correct to less than a thousandth part of an inch ) of which 27 , 900 were produced , and on the other hand the unpacking and assembly of the American-manufactured Mercer and Hyster Mobile Cranes , 169 of the former and 207 of the latter being dealt with in addition to 37 Elwell Parker Lift Trucks . |
| 25 | Worcester 's population doubled from 4,000 to 8,000 between the mid-sixteenth and the mid-seventeenth century , a rise that is explained equally by natural increase and by immigration . |
| 26 | Hundreds of the fittest and fastest athletes tuned up for one of the most gruelling events on the sporting calander . |
| 27 | Six of the best or pieces of eight ? |
| 28 | She was sitting by the food tray , and had ordered six of the older and more sensible nomes to stand guard around it to keep children away . |
| 29 | No further away than this morning The Times printed an advertisement from 209 of the great and the good who are calling for the legalisation of cannabis . |
| 30 | Among the poor , 0.391 of the young and 0.172 of the old are prepared to break the law — a difference of +0.219 . |