Example sentences of "[num] at [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He died in 1876 at the age of 93 , and his son John took up the duties . |
| 2 | In 1895 at the beginning of his work Beiträge zur Begründung der transfiniten Mengenlehre Georg Cantor * made the following definition : By a set we understand any collection M of definite , distinct objects m of our perception or of our thought ( which will be called the elements of M ) into a whole . |
| 3 | Williams ' goal lifted the Sky Blues to second place in the Premier League — and punters can get 1,000-1 on a Norwich-Coventry one-two at the end of the season . |
| 4 | ( ‘ Tempest ’ ) and some sureties , the landlord demised a factory unit on its industrial estate , known as Eley 's Estate , Eley Road , Enfield , to Tempest for a term of 20 years from 25 March 1972 at a rent of £3,850 for the first five years , with reviews at five-yearly intervals thereafter . |
| 5 | They start with his poverty-stricken beginnings in turn-of-the-century Lambeth — all cliched , flat-capped urchins and ‘ wotcha , cock ’ — running straight through to Chaplin 's ambivalent acceptance of a special Oscar in 1972 at the age of 83 . |
| 6 | W. J. Arkell , king of the Jurassic , had placed it in 1933 at the base of the Callovian Stage . |
| 7 | After the referendum results were announced , the rouble fell to 812 to the dollar , down from 415 at the beginning of the year . |
| 8 | They had one daughter , who died of typhoid in 1872 at the age of eight . |
| 9 | The numbers that I have given publicly hitherto are the best estimate that the senior chief inspector and I can make — about 175 at the end of the transitional period . |
| 10 | Warsaw police confirmed on April 24 that arsonists had been responsible for a fire on April 22 at the home of Jerzy Jachowicz , a journalist on Gazeta Wyborcza , in which his wife had been killed and his daughter injured . |
| 11 | According to the justice ministry , staff at 70 of the country 's 180 prisons are on strike , compared with 22 at the end of last week . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was built in 1802 at the expense of Mrs Charlotte Bethell , the wife of the then lord of the manor . |
| 14 | It was enclosed after 1767 at the behest of the Duke of Dorset who acquired 700 acres as a result . |
| 15 | While retaining an interest in the Artillery Company , he transferred to the Stationers ' Company in 1777 , becoming a liveryman in 1776 at the time of his move to 33 Leadenhall Street . |
| 16 | He won a £20,000 prize for the invention just a few years before he died in 1776 at the age of 83 . |
| 17 | King Hussein , who had resisted calls from Moslem Brotherhood members of parliament and leftists to boycott the conference , said in an emotional speech on Oct. 12 at a conference of 2,500 elected officials in Amman that he had been assured by the USA that it would " do its utmost " to see that a transitional period of Palestinian " autonomy " in the occupied territories would be negotiated within a year of the conference opening , and announced Jordan 's unconditional acceptance of US terms for the proposed Middle East peace conference . |
| 18 | The opening of Aspects of Love , on April 12 at the Prince of Wales theatre , will furnish a mere footnote in what has become a success story of remarkable almost tedious consistency . |
| 19 | Children under 12 at the time of departure are covered at 50% of the above stated premiums . |
| 20 | 6–9 At the end of a different ( random ) warp loop |
| 21 | It will be down to 37,000 at the end of this year . ’ |
| 22 | His brother Luke , whom Coleridge had come to know and revere in London , had died in 1790 at the age of twenty-five ; Nancy , loved ‘ most tenderly ’ , had succumbed to tuberculosis the following year at only twenty-one . |
| 23 | Such was the rapid rate of expansion that ensued that the workforce in Britain 's mines rose from a mere 50,000 at the beginning of the nineteenth century to over 1 million on the eve of the First World War . |
| 24 | For example , since , , , , , and are reduced forms of a/her , he , had/would , am , is and who , the short word parsings shown in Fig. 7.4 at the end of this chapter can be derived from associated and Missouri farms when the input utterances are matched against the lexicon . |
| 25 | The Widdicombe Committee was appointed in 1985 at a time of high political controversy about the activities of certain local authorities . |
| 26 | While the Consumer Credit Act licensing system imposed a restraint on credit traders and provided for criminal and financial sanctions against unlicensed trading , the Association was concerned in 1985 at the minority of creditors who were either unaware of , or careless of the existence of , the licensing system . |
| 27 | Thomson , for instance , was reported to have sold 400,000 1986 holidays in two weeks in November 1985 at the height of the price war , and other main operators probably did equally well . |
| 28 | Karl Carstens , who served as West German Federal President in 1979-84 , died in Meckenheim near Bonn on May 30 at the age of 77 . |
| 29 | It is assumed that , having married an Englishwoman , he returned to France in December 1788 at the end of his six months ' leave . |
| 30 | The project has now taken the population from 18 animals to more than 300 at the end of the 1991 breeding season . |