Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [num] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fairly serious outbreak occurred in 1928 at the workhouse . |
| 2 | The year saw a continuation in the upward trend in both the number , and the total value of , applications received by the Fund which rose to 2,207 at a potential cost of £58.5m ( 1991 : 1,337 , £33.3m ) . |
| 3 | The $489m loss for 1992 means that another 10,000 to 15,000 more jobs are going to have to go at the company as part of the continuing restructuring plan — its payroll actually rose to 252,000 at the end of 1992 from 240,000 in 1991 . |
| 4 | Shaun Devenney played off three at the beginning of last season and now plays to one , his year 's successes including the Leinster Boys ' and the Mark Ryder Under-22 championships and the Ulster Junior Foursomes . |
| 5 | It was 3-1 … they lost at Vetch Field , but banged in 3 at the Manor . |
| 6 | Humpbacks , sperms and rorquals formed the basis of an extensive antarctic whaling industry , which began in 1904 at a single whaling station on South Georgia and expanded enormously over the next three decades , making use of both shore stations and pelagic fleets . |
| 7 | The OSI , which they adopted , had been pioneered by several international bodies ; the initial work began in 1977 at the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ) on developing a seven-layer OSI reference model . |
| 8 | Nicolaus matriculated in 1632 at the University of Rostock and graduated magister philosophiae in 1641 . |
| 9 | They returned in 1976 at the height of their fame to pack the King 's Hall , Balmoral . |
| 10 | Ill health later led him to spend some time in the Bristol area , where he cemented his friendship with William Wordsworth [ q.v. ] , whom he met in 1795 at a gathering of radical friends ( who included George Dyer , William Frend , William Godwin , and John Horne Tooke , qq.v . ) . |
| 11 | It only called for eight at the most . |
| 12 | My second marriage collapsed in 1991 at the beginning of my last year of vocational training — and I still had dependants . |
| 13 | Tabley House is the 3,000-acre estate near Knutsford , which he inherited in 1770 at the age of eight . |
| 14 | A similar but more limited process of delegation ( centre de responsabilité ) started in 1991 at the Musée d'Orsay and will be introduced in a further five national museums . |
| 15 | Ballesteros starts today nine adrift in joint fifth place , but his first victory in America 15 years ago came after he trailed by ten at the same stage , and that in the 1986 Monte Carlo Open he was seven behind with only one round to go and still triumphed . |
| 16 | Queen Alexandra died in 1925 at the age of 81 . |
| 17 | Her older sister Catherine died in 1986 at the age of 104 and Dora , her younger sister last February , aged 95 . |
| 18 | His new wife was a Parisian and he spent the last eight years of his life in Paris , where he continued to practise until he died in 1843 at the age of eighty-eight . |
| 19 | She died in 1918 at the age of ninety-nine ; and she had a daughter , Dorothy , who married the explorer Henry Morton Stanley . |
| 20 | Another claim to fame by the village is that it is the birthplace of authoress Winifred Holtby , who sadly died in 1935 at the age of 37 and is buried in the churchyard here . |
| 21 | ‘ My grandfather died in 1935 at the age of eighty-eight . |
| 22 | Barclay 's son James , who died in 1771 at the age of twenty-four , was the youthful author of An Examination of Mr Kenrick 's Review of Mr Johnson 's Edition of Shakespeare ( 1766 ) . |
| 23 | Matthias did not reign long enough to consolidate his achievements for he died in 1490 at the age of fifty . |
| 24 | He retired to Hampshire and died in 1832 at the age of 76 . |
| 25 | When Jeremy Bentham , the radical jurist , philosopher and founder of University College , London , died in 1832 at the age of eighty-four he bequeathed his body to Dr Southwood Smith , an anatomist and author of Uses of the Dead to the Living , in which it was suggested that the difficulties experienced by medical schools in acquiring bodies for dissection could be alleviated if people chose to bequeath their bodies to them . |
| 26 | They had three sons ( one of whom died in 1938 at the age of fifteen ) and one daughter . |
| 27 | Hooker died in 1600 at the age of forty-six after catching cold on a passage by water between Gravesend and Greenwich . |
| 28 | John Mason died in 1899 at the early age of sixty-four . |
| 29 | George died in 1906 at the age of fifty-nine and Mary lived to be eighty-four . |
| 30 | This ceased in 1986 , when I left the Midlands to return to the family home to help my sister in caring for our father , who died in 1988 at the age of 99 . |