Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Van Dyck had a hand in exporting his style to England in the 17th century ; the allure of the full-length formal portrait endured for the following 300 years . |
| 2 | She also lived through the appalling 1982 massacres in the Sabra and Shatila camps . |
| 3 | Although Il Moro led for the first two legs , New Zealand showed her fearsome ability to climb to windward when she squeezed up from underneath Il Moro to take the lead at the third mark . |
| 4 | The European market for acetate filament yarn is expected to shrink slightly during 1993 — disappointing but not such a blow as that experienced during the last two years which saw the market in Europe tumble from 40,000 tons to 30,000 . |
| 5 | It probably failed for the Mixed Fours were re-introduced as a trial in 1960 and reintroduced yet again in 1974 largely on the initiative of Valerie Wormwald the then Ladies ' Captain . |
| 6 | Blue eyeshadow , much reviled for the past five years , is back at Chanel , Lancôme and Rubinstein and has never been out at Lauder — Mrs Lauder is a firm believer in the power of blue . |
| 7 | The story of how Meehan and his advisors tried and failed during the next seven years to obtain justice for him in the light of increasing evidence of his innocence and Waddell 's guilt makes sorry reading . |
| 8 | Here we lived for the next fifteen years , with the eighteenth-century kirk across the road , and from my study window at the front a clear thirty-mile view across the Tweed valley to the distant Cheviots . |
| 9 | A movement was born that provided for the next four years the reference point for the left , and for artists and what passed for Britain 's Beats . |
| 10 | Early in 1989 his book , A Brief History of Time , toppled my autobiography from No 1 to No 2 on the best-seller list , which positions we retained for the next 13 weeks . |
| 11 | It rose during the early 1980s but has fallen 9% since 1986 and is now about the same level as in the mid 1960s . |
| 12 | The share of income paid in taxes was more or less proportional to income for most families ( about 20–5 per cent of income ) and then rose for the top 10 per cent of highest income earners . |
| 13 | The change in gastric acid secretion , between basal acid secretion and stimulated acid secretion , that occurred during the first 30 minutes after sham feeding was compared with the change in urine acid output ( DUAO ) over the same period . |
| 14 | The profound learning experience which occurred during the early 1980s has established a style of operation and a mutual receptivity to change which Pilkingtons believe will transform the company from a reactive to a proactive organization capable of dealing with market uncertainty . |
| 15 | He was at once promoted to lance-corporal but although Travis [ Commander Edward Travis who was chief administrator at B.P. ] tried for the next six months to find a suitable military unit to which Harold could be attached as an officer , he had no luck . |
| 16 | The real evidence of successful integration occurred after the first two weeks . |
| 17 | Episodes of intestinal obstruction usually occurred in the first year of operation but in seven patients admission to hospital with obstruction occurred after the first 12 months . |
| 18 | As he [ Mr Field ] was elected and then reselected under the old 1985 procedure and he accepted those victories with a certain amount of good grace , I would hope he would accept that procedure . |
| 19 | And those countries already in on the act surged ahead — notably South Korea , which moved into the top ten richest countries in the world . |
| 20 | Jim Bob and Fruitbat , whose ‘ The Only Living Boy In New Cross ’ single crashed into the Top Ten last week , will release 5,000 balloons from Sheep 's Green in Cambridge . |
| 21 | Petr Korda crashed into the top ten for this year with puzzled frowns asking : ‘ Petr Who ? ’ |
| 22 | A busy day on the financial front , at one point the FTSE index of the top one hundred companies rose above the twenty-five hundred mark to suffer later losses . |
| 23 | A busy day on the financial front , at one point the FTSE index of the top one hundred companies rose above the twenty-five hundred mark to suffer later losses . |
| 24 | The closer we allow ourselves to get to another , the more we are affected and influences both consciously and unconsciously through the projective system or defence we described in the last two chapters . |
| 25 | The monumental Portland Building rose in the early 1950s and teaching and residential accommodation space grew rapidly in the 1960s and 70s to keep pace with the growing demand for university places . |
| 26 | Following disagreements with the Genevan authorities , he moved in the later 1960s , first to London and then to Banbury , where he died 10 November 1976 , having arranged with the University of Oxford for the bequest of his scholarly research interests ( the Voltaire Foundation ) to the Taylor Institution there . |
| 27 | But within a few weeks of William 's appointment she had applied to three different London boroughs for a job — any job — in social work , taken the first one she 'd been offered , fixed up the flat , put the cottage on the market , found a school for Edwin , and fled from the last five years of her life with almost indecent haste . |
| 28 | The idea of road pricing first surfaced in the early Sixties . |
| 29 | Alternative plans to neutralise Afghanistan surfaced in the early 1980s in the West and the Third World among academics and diplomats . |
| 30 | This year 's films will include footage of the refitting and return to the Mersey of the tug Applegarth , which sank in the late 50s . |