Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] in the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had not altered overmuch in the twelve months since she was covering cars with eggs and flour and ringing doorbells with her giggling friends . |
| 2 | It does not seem to matter if these are mixed together in the one preparation whereas in classical homoeopathy it is held that remedies should not be mixed . |
| 3 | This axiomatising process was carried further in the 1920s and 1930s by Emmy Noether , the greatest of all women algebraists . |
| 4 | I think it 's the worse example of pure political self-indulgence that I have ever come across in the eight ye nearly eight years on this Council |
| 5 | This is easily done if the point cams are not placed exactly in the 24 stitch placings . |
| 6 | Rubber was first grown commercially in the 1890s . |
| 7 | However , this sector of the Environment Services Division has expanded greatly in the ten years that it has been operating |
| 8 | A little further on , the small compact settlement of Lea Yeat ( Gate ) is reached , its tranquillity disturbed only in the 1870s when the railway was being constructed across the hillside above . |
| 9 | Therefore , comparisons of bowel function and transit time were made separately in the two age groups . |
| 10 | The sales were organized separately in the two republics for the first time . |
| 11 | However , civil protest was pushed underground in the 1960s after the Sharpeville massacre and the banning of the African National Congress ( ANC ) and other anti-apartheid organizations . |
| 12 | The venture capital industry has grown rapidly in the 1980 's and into the 1990's , from around twelve in the mid 1970's to approximately 124 at the present time . |
| 13 | For me , a highlight of this time was a weekend visit from a college friend , whom I 've only seen once in the forty-three years since we left college . |
| 14 | The four essential action parts — the key , the hammer , the escapement and the check — are organized differently in the two actions . |
| 15 | Their influence on the JCT can be seen clearly in the 1980 edition of the JCT standard form of building contract . |
| 16 | These few lines , written probably in the 450s , illustrate how much of Sicily 's wealth was in private ownership and how much was expected of its possessors . |
| 17 | The numbers of single mothers have risen dramatically in the 1980s ( from 130,000 in 1976 to 360,000 in 1989 ) but they nevertheless remain in the minority among lone mothers . |
| 18 | It replaced three older small stations which had been built there in the 1860s and 1870s . |
| 19 | In the British case , Champion ( 1987 ) has argued that explanations for decentralization and counterurbanization should be sought chiefly in the 1960s and that the circumstances of the 1970s should be used to explain the resurgence of growth in the more urban regions in the 1980s . |
| 20 | World food output had grown steadily in the fifties and sixties ( except in 1965 and 1967 , after Indian droughts ) . |
| 21 | The Committee 's arguments and recommendations were accepted by the government and higher education was expanded considerably in the 1960s and early 1970s . |
| 22 | The concept of Partnership was first developed formally in the 1977 white paper . |
| 23 | GaAs was first used successfully in the 1960s for instrument applications such as light-emitting diodes , lasers , visual display units and audio disc players . |
| 24 | There was no representation for either of the two dominant political groups in the Hong Kong Legislative Council ( Legco ) — the liberal United Democrats of Hong Kong and the conservative Co-operative Resource Centre — whereas the pro-Chinese New Hong Kong Alliance and Liberal Democratic Federation , both of which had performed badly in the 1991 Legco elections , enjoyed significant representation . |
| 25 | Making fathers pay the poll tax for their under-age children , he said , hindered the growth of population , which had advanced less in the twenty years since the mid-1830s than it had in the twenty years before that . |
| 26 | The North-East 100 and 200 metres champion won the long jump with a leap of 5.65 metres and was prevented from completing a sprint double when City of Hull 's Karen Buck just got home in the 100 metres . |
| 27 | Vanguard had performed well in the 1974 elections but , as Sarah Nelson notes , ‘ The VUP 's future was bound to be in doubt once it shed its two distinctive Vanguard features : militant opposition to British domination and alliance with workers and paramilitants . ’ |
| 28 | The two Flemish groups , the separatist Vlaams Bloc and the " ultra-liberal " ROSSEM , which had both performed well in the 1991 elections , were not invited to participate . |
| 29 | The 1920s in Europe , at least , had seen some of the same romanticism about leaving technically advanced civilization as occurred again in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 30 | Two A-320s had crashed previously in the four years since the aircraft went into operation . |