Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [adj] but [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rise in the oil price after 1979 was mainly responsible not only for the growth in the share of this group of products in total imports from 1979 to 1984 but also for its decline during the following three years . |
| 2 | We spent around £450,000 in 1991 on unconventional but highly selective media . |
| 3 | A higher proportion of the earlier generation did not attend university at all — 8 out of 35 in 1940 but only 8 out of 135 in 1970 . |
| 4 | The Serbs are first referred to as a distinct group in the Balkans in the writings of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII ( Porphyrogenitus , nominally emperor from 913 to 959 but effectively so from 945 ) His massive work De administrando imperio , written in the tenth century , refers to Serbs who were subjects of his predecessors and who were converted to Christianity in the ninth century . |
| 5 | Red shirts clashed with blue , sometimes one of each but occasionally in bunches . |
| 6 | Mr. W. E. Gladstone was Prime Minister from 1880 to 1885 but then that post alternated between the Marquess of Salisbury and Mr. Gladstone until the turn of the century , with a short interlude in 1894–1895 when the Earl of Rosebery was in that office . |