Example sentences of "[num] in [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through merging and going bust , the number of independent banks fell from 13,400 in the mid-1960s to 12,700 in 1980 and to the 10,000 today . |
| 2 | STEVE DAVIS fought back brilliantly to beat old adversary Jimmy White 9-5 in the quarter-finals of the Coalite World Matchplay in Doncaster last night . |
| 3 | Spain 's brother-and-sister team of Emilio and Arantxa Sanchez beat Austria 2-1 in the quarter-finals of the Hopman Cup in Perth , while Yannick Noah lost to Petr Korda during Czechoslovakia 's 3-0 defeat of France . |
| 4 | Newcomers Undercover have stormed to No. 2 in the charts with their dance version of the track after 40,000 Mirror readers voted the original their fifth favourite song of all time . |
| 5 | Mezzadri , a Swiss coming back from a knee injury that dropped him from No 26 to 305 in the rankings in 1989 , overpowered Korda with a steady flow of crushing forehands and big serves . |
| 6 | Initial work has focused on general SVQs at levels II and III in the areas of business administration , care , hospitality , leisure and tourism , and technology . |
| 7 | Perhaps it was inevitable that when the Auditing Practices Board was set up in 1991 in the ashes of the old Auditing Practices Committee , Mr Morrison 's name should spring to mind as its first chairman . |
| 8 | Britain has been muttering that if it perceives a ‘ consensus for democracy ’ in Hong Kong , it will start ‘ talking tough ’ to Peking at a diplomatic level , and perhaps even adopt the Legislative Council proposals for 1995 in the teeth of Chinese opposition and without regard to ‘ convergence ’ with the Basic Law . |
| 9 | He none the less played a prominent part in 1520 in the preparations at Calais for the ‘ Field of the Cloth of Gold ’ , continued to supervise the works at Eton , and seems to have been the architect of St Stephen 's cloister in Westminster Palace . |
| 10 | He had been employed before 1917 in the archives of the foreign ministry and one of his ancestors on his mother 's side had been Russian ambassador in Vienna during the 1814 – 15 congress . |
| 11 | According to C. F. C. Beeson , the earliest European record of a clock with a mechanical escapement is that of 1283 in the Annals of Dunstable Priory in Bedfordshire . |
| 12 | Five Doric capitals and bases were recorded in the nineteenth century , while several re-used blocks were found in 1957 in the foundations of the northwest tower ; these blocks displayed cramp holes unrelated to the adjacent stones , and one at least was an elaborately moulded part of a plinth . |
| 13 | Which former Conservative minister 's daughter reached Number 5 in the charts in 1975 ? |
| 14 | On fairly conservative criteria this parliamentary force numbered perhaps thirty-five in the first half of the 1790s , twenty in 1806 and between thirty-five and sixty in the parliaments from 1812 to 1831 , dropping to about thirty in the reformed parliament of 1832 . |
| 15 | These include relative isolation , taken as more than 20 km from urban areas ; social class , defined as the proportion of the population in the registrar general 's classes I and II ; density of children , taken crudely as the number of enumeration districts in a given sector having 100 or more children ( postcode sectors are fairly large , and acreages of enumeration districts are not available ) ; and increases from 1971 to 1981 in the numbers of men working away from home in the construction and energy industries ( ‘ recent oil impact measure ’ ) . |
| 16 | Significant changes were made by the Supreme Court Act 1981 in the arrangements for the management of the business of the civil division of the Court of Appeal . |
| 17 | ( An appreciable increase had also occurred in the late 1970s in the numbers of US servicemen and their families in the area . ) |
| 18 | The marsupial 's population is believed to have fallen from 400,000 in the mid-1980s to around 200,000 today , and the rapid decline is continuing . |
| 19 | These data will be discussed further in Chapters 3 and 4 in the descriptions of the bone modifications produced by predators . |
| 20 | Registration was made compulsory under the Act of 1897 in the Counties of London and Middlesex — now Greater London , as provided by the London Government Act 1963 . |
| 21 | The modus vivendi was not signed , but it was promulgated in January 1948 in the minutes of the Combined Policy Committee so as to avoid reference to Congress or to the United Nations , which would have been necessary for a formal international agreement . |
| 22 | We have lived in a wonderful variety of houses , including one normally occupied by a pit deputy in South Yorkshire ; a leaking gothic horror of a Victorian rectory in deepest Sussex that was literally falling to pieces while administrative matters blocked efforts to replace it and our present one near Lewes built in 1934 in the days of live-in maids , recently modernised but still half as big again as any built these days and with a double-size garden . |
| 23 | According to work done in the 1970s and 1980s , there could have been up to 32 in the rocks of Burgess shale alone , including many never seen anywhere else . |
| 24 | There is little trace of his activities from then until his participation during 1659 in the debates of the Rota Club formed by James Harrington [ q.v . ] . |
| 25 | Our findings demonstrate for the first time increased expression of ET-1 in the lungs of patients with CFA compared with the lungs of subjects without CFA . |
| 26 | Nicholson writes in 1861 in the Annals of Kendal of ‘ hosiers attending Markets to collect stockings and give out worsted . ’ |
| 27 | Says the shaven-haired star , at No. 29 in the charts with Daydream : ‘ I think my nose is too big . ’ |
| 28 | These conspiracies were broken by the government , inefficient though it was , leaving the initiative in 1820 in the hands of the military Masonry . |
| 29 | It is perhaps not by chance that the first Greek book to speak extensively about the Jews was written by an adviser of Ptolemy I in the years in which he was campaigning for the conquest of Palestine . |
| 30 | A survey of Manchester in 1840 ( Flinn 1965 ) shows that crude death-rates varied from 16 in the suburbs to 35 in the poor urban areas . |