Example sentences of "[num] in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using the most fundamental measure of poverty , the " breadline " , Professor Hay has estimated that over the years 1760 to 1802 in a normal year around 10 per cent of Staffordshire families would have been unable to buy sufficient bread over the year even if they had spent their whole earnings on it . |
| 2 | But England coach Kevin Cadle left his side to provide the perfect answer as they thrashed the Danes 80–63 in the second leg . |
| 3 | CHRIS WILKINSON gave both himself and Jeremy Bates a massive pre-Wimbledon lift when he beat Argentinian left-hander Javier Frana 7–5 6–4 in the first round of the Direct Line Insurance Manchester Open at Didsbury . |
| 4 | Boris Becker was surprisingly beaten by Spain 's Jordi Burillo , ranked 230th in the world , 1–6 , 7–6 , 6–4 in the second round of the Spanish Open at Barcelona . |
| 5 | Over the last five years , the number of centres entering candidates for National Certificate has grown steadily and , over the same period , the number of modules in the catalogue has risen from around 700 in the first year of operation to around 2500 this year . |
| 6 | From an initial 700 in the first season , bookings rose rapidly to 26,000 by 1931 . |
| 7 | This was built in 1885 in the Czech Renaissance style after a plan by A. Wiehl , and is decorated with marvellous sgraffiato depicting the battle with the Swedes on Charles Bridge in 1648 . |
| 8 | The 305 , 310 and 320 will ship this quarter and the 10 , 35 , 45 and 330 in the fourth quarter . |
| 9 | Indexing the average of the twelve members as 100 , the national distribution of per capita GDP in PPSs in 1988 ranged from 121 in Luxembourg and 113 in the Federal Republic of Germany to 55 in Greece and 54 in Portugal . |
| 10 | The cumulative probability of maintaining remission at six months was 0.67 after treatment with prednisolone compared with 0.28 after treatment with elemental diet , and at one year the probability of maintaining remission was 0.35 in the prednisolone group and 0.09 in the elemental diet treated group ( p<0.05 ; log rank test ) . |
| 11 | IBM is promising to come up with a cost-efficient CMOS microprocessor-based 390 in the second half of the year . |
| 12 | Combining powerful smashes with deft drop-shots , Hall , from Chingford , Essex , beat Steve Baddeley , the left-handed Sussex player , 15-18 , 15-4 , 15-4 in a 66-minute final . |
| 13 | Combining powerful smashes with deft drop-shots , Hall beat Steve Baddeley 15-18 , 15-4 , 15-4 in a 66-minute final . |
| 14 | Both the taxpayer and the Crown expressed dissatisfaction with the Special Commissioner 's determination of an assessment for 1985/86 in a reduced amount . |
| 15 | Fiji 's team was a second strength team but they were still too good , running away 22–10 victors over Australia Green after trailing 10–0 in the first half . |
| 16 | Of the respondents , 393 ( 45% ; 41.8% to 48.3% ) gave an occupation other than housewife for their mother , whereas 69% of women aged 45–60 in the general population are employed . |
| 17 | Strikes and protests were called off by the nationalists pending the outcome of the discussions , which ended on Jan. 12 in an apparent climb-down by the nationalists , all participants in the " public council " endorsing a draft declaration which upheld the Dec. 29 decisions on minority rights . |
| 18 | ICI will be able to stop manufacturing CFCs 11 and 12 in the first quarter of next year , having secured supplies for its remaining customers through a deal with Akzo . |
| 19 | Encouraged by the success of the publication , CD collected together other pieces previously published in periodicals but not included in the First Series and Sketches by Boz Second Series was published in one volume by Macrone in 1837 ( but bearing the date 1836 ) , uniform with the previous 2 volumes , and including 10 illustrations ( 12 in the second edition ) by Cruikshank . |
| 20 | Canada , Mexico and the United States began negotiations on June 12 in the Canadian city of Toronto on an ambitious free trade treaty . |
| 21 | Thirty three of the 36 patients in the study had died at the end of the study period , 21 ( 87% ) in the chemotherapy group , and all 12 in the supportive care group . |
| 22 | Despite strong government denials , local media sources were agreed that an attack on the presidential motorcade had been an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate President Carlos Andrés Pérez on Oct. 12 in the western border town of Paraguaipoa , in the state of Zulia . |
| 23 | A meeting on April 12 in the Hungarian capital , Budapest , between the Foreign Ministers of the Group of Rio countries ( comprising Argentina , Uruguay , Venezuela , Brazil , Peru , Mexico , Colombia ) and their East European counterparts ( representing the Soviet Union , Czechoslovakia , East Germany , Poland , Hungary , Bulgaria , and Yugoslavia ) resulted in joint agreements to increase political , economic , cultural , scientific and technological exchanges between the two regions . |
| 24 | The British navy which had 76,000 sailors at the end of the Seven Years War in 1763 , for example , had only 17,500 in the following year . |
| 25 | In what some believed to be a dummy run of tomorrow 's final , Jackie Lockhart 's team beat Christine Cannon 's Stranraer 8-7 in the third round . |
| 26 | Gloucestershire already have their sights on this year 's Daily Telegraph Channel League title after beating Dorset , last summer 's champions , 8-7 in an exciting encounter . |
| 27 | FSO sold just 99 cars compared with 480 in the same month last year . |
| 28 | A John Thomas hat-trick enabled Albion to take the aggregate score to six apiece with a 5-3 win at Bradford , while Palace won 3-2 having lost 2-1 in the first leg of their clash with second division basement dwellers , Leicester City . |
| 29 | Dragon Pallets ( Ian Fullerton , Dave Pearce ) won 2-1 in the first division against Light of India and Wing Half ( John Farrell , Ritchie Martin ) defeated MSC Eastham 2-0 . |
| 30 | GREAT BRITAIN 'S team of Mark Petchey and Chris Wilkinson yesterday beat Czechoslovakia 2-1 in the first round of the European men 's team tennis championships in Trieste , Italy . |