Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shortly after that , Ramsey took over as England 's manager , and for the next 12 years the fortunes of the two men were inextricably intertwined . |
| 2 | At 0800 hrs the contents of 0.410 had been passed on as AC/188 [ KP 96 ] , to 15th Army Group , with a copy for information to Gen Morgan , the Chief of Staff at AFHQ . |
| 3 | In all three cases the changes in the host , if we accept that they are Darwinian adaptations for the benefit of the parasite , must be seen as extended phenotypic effects of parasite genes . |
| 4 | Every three years the villagers of Barwick-in-Elmet lower their maypole on Easter Monday and raise it , newly painted and decorated , at Spring Bank Holiday using traditional methods — that is , ropes , ladders and a lot of manpower . |
| 5 | In the preceding three chapters the styles of work and the surviving examples discussed came from different parts of Europe , but , in Volume I , only one basic source of inspiration and culture was affecting building design and function . |
| 6 | The advantage for the butterfly is that if a bird seizes it by the wings , and is reminded of some earlier unpleasant experience with the species and its toxin , it will release the insect unharmed : a bluejay that has never seen a monarch butterfly will readily catch and eat it ; but within 15–30 minutes the toxins in the butterfly 's body cause the bird to vomit , and one such encounter is sufficient to make a bluejay avoid monarchs thereafter . |
| 7 | President Bush took over from the 78-year-old Ronald Reagan at the age of 64 but within 11 days the rigours of office had taken their toll . |
| 8 | During the 11 years the numbers of residents in NHS geriatric and psychiatric beds fell by 41% ; this fall was partly compensated for by a 37% rise in the number of patients in acute beds . |
| 9 | Gradually , over the next twenty-five years the terms of the Treaty were eroded as the Free State became a Republic in all but name . |
| 10 | Over the past ten years the excavations at the church have yielded some remarkable discoveries . |
| 11 | The parish register from 1 January 1813 to 31 December 1817 records the occupations of 74 men , of whom 51 ( that is nearly 70 per cent ) were framework knitters ; the rest comprised 12 labourers , 2 woolcombers , 2 blacksmiths , a framesmith , a farmer and grazier , a publican , a gardener , a tailor , a brick mason and a soldier . |
| 12 | Within 15 miles of Llanwenarth there are some thirty waymarked walks and within 3 miles the mountains of Blorenge , Tyla and Sugarloaf can be approached . |
| 13 | Arthur Young noted of one in Sheffield in 1771 that its employees were chiefly women and children , with the former earning 5-6s ( 25-30p ) a week , five times the earnings of the latter.60 |
| 14 | For 13 years the forces of Hooraydom have stalked the land , set free by a government that slashed their taxes and showered them with Bollinger , BMWs and bijou terraced houses in the smarter parts of South London . |
| 15 | The May play , Tea For Two , was performed for five nights the proceeds from the extra performance going to the Whiston Hospital cancer day- care ward a cheque for three hundred pounds being gratefully received by the hospital . |
| 16 | With a number of solids the interatomic forces are stronger and stiffer than they are in common liquids and so the surface energies are higher , often ten or twenty times the values for ordinary liquids . |
| 17 | The draft budget cut by 15,000 units the plans for public housing construction in 1992 , but the Housing Ministry on Sept. 7 publicized details of a major housing construction plan for 1992 which would see the creation of a new belt of housing around Jerusalem and 12 new Jewish towns inside Israel , along the border with the West Bank . |
| 18 | In two cases the relatives of a client asked to have the support worker withdrawn . |
| 19 | Right next question is the one where you 're given these two complex numbers , and you 're asked to show the , the modules of Z one squared is two times the modules of Z two squared . |
| 20 | BBC2 settled down with about 10 per cent of the total TV audience and heavily subsidized by BBC1 , which had four times the viewers at only twice the cost . |
| 21 | Great changes were in prospect in the way in which for four centuries the states of Europe had been formally linked together . |
| 22 | For about four centuries the rulers of England had been trying to conquer and rule France , Scotland , and Ireland , but they had just lost their last foothold in France at Calais , their position in Ireland was as insecure as it had ever been , and the Scottish problem had taken an altogether new turn because Mary the Queen of Scotland could present a good claim to the English throne . |
| 23 | Yet by the end of the 1960s , institutions had once again become places of last resort , and over the past thirty years the numbers of youngsters admitted to institutions has declined sharply in all three countries ( Lammertyn and Antoons , 1990 ; Ploeg , 1986 ) . |
| 24 | Over the last thirty years the achievements of physiologists and psychologists in studying dreaming have received a good deal of attention in the media , much of it sensationalist , so one might expect some of this information to have percolated through to become common knowledge . |
| 25 | I think if you go back a hundred years the problems in British culture were much worse , but nonetheless I do think there 's a tremendous arrogance around in modern so-called civilized Britain , and particularly when they talk about the ancient civilization of Israel , I just think that they were a far more humane nation than we are . |
| 26 | Over the next two years the powers of the papacy were gradually whittled away by successive parliamentary statutes ; all papal financial exactions were withheld ; papal dispensations were invalidated ; and papal consecration of bishops and the right of appeal to Rome were both declared unnecessary . |
| 27 | Because for two years for two years the intentions of the Conservative group , which have been the intentions of ourselves have delivered on the Moat Highfield questions , delivered nothing . |
| 28 | As a result the German frontier was broken , and for the next two years the provinces of Germany and Gaul were plundered by the invaders . |
| 29 | For the past two years the trustees of the Marriott Bequest have funded a scheme aimed at giving young members of the RSC a taste of scientific publishing . |
| 30 | Over the past four years the companies with the highest annual average growth in pre-tax profits per share ( excluding property and other capital items ) are Joseph Holt 17% , Morland 16% , Mansfield 16% , Adnams 14% , Hardys & Hansons 14% , Wolverhampton & Dudley 12% and Greenalls 11% . |