Example sentences of "[det] [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The first point is that , of the five people generally named in any discussion of the generation gap theory , four are Free Presbyterians , which is a similar concentration to that found in the first generation of Paisley activists . |
| 3 | The age distribution of known opioid users was similar to that found in the first survey , with 69 per cent being aged between 16 and 24 years ( compared to 75 per cent in 1984–5 ) . |
| 4 | This led to the second phase of the emergence of headhunting , in which management consultants , and with them accountancy firms , developed their own in-house headhunting functions . |
| 5 | The first evidence of this surfaced on the second trip that I made to Rhodesia , in April 1971 . |
| 6 | All this occurred during the first months of the Awlad Amira administration , while Mannaia still smarted from electoral defeat ; and at that time some lineages did not exclude the possibility of further Tibbu reprisals after the earlier fighting and homicides . |
| 7 | When this occurred in the first organisms on earth , evolution began , for such mistakes in copying are the source of variations from which natural selection can produce evolutionary change . |
| 8 | This came from the sixth form . |
| 9 | This instigated for the first time the right of appellation in the form of the Appellation d'Origine Controlée ( AOC ) and regulations were imposed including a cunning proviso which dumped the entire issue of the Aube wines and the controversial ‘ Champagne Deuxième Zone ’ firmly in the lap of the judiciary . |
| 10 | Already in the 1950s the core was losing heavily , and this worsened in the next decade . |
| 11 | This began on the 14th of September 1824 . |
| 12 | This started on the second day with the women 's quarter and semi finals and the men 's semi final . |
| 13 | The recovery of later fourth-century coins and pottery in the town centre itself certainly also attests continued activity , but it is hard to determine how long this survived into the fifth century , given the cessation of both coinage and pottery supplies and the consequent problem of dating post-Roman levels . |
| 14 | Aegean civilization , as this appeared during the first half of the second millennium B.C. , was sufficiently sure of its own identity to engage in traffic with the older ones of south-west Asia and the Nile Valley . |
| 15 | In 1724 Peter I ordered that all papers relating to foreign policy should be brought together in the college archive ; and work on this continued for the next two decades . |
| 16 | This continued throughout the Second World War and until 1949 , when the mill finally came into the hands of a new owner , a Mr Carr . |
| 17 | The judge in the later case finds some relevant fact in that case of sufficient importance to justify a different approach from that adopted in the first decision . |
| 18 | That came with the last lot that I got . |
| 19 | That came at the 7th tee . |
| 20 | ‘ The Collector ’ is arranged in three parts , each told in the first person by Clegg , Miranda , then Clegg again . |
| 21 | At the same time he was pursuing his preference for bilateral meetings : these culminated during the first two months of 1961 with his meeting first with the British premier , Harold Macmillan , and then with Konrad Adenauer . |
| 22 | After 12 months , the recurrence rate was significantly ( p<0.001 ) lower than that observed during the first six months . |
| 23 | They all met for the first time on the show . |
| 24 | Th you know it was just the sort of it , it all changed after the First World War and completely changed after the Second World War . |
| 25 | Our four hypertension related male deaths all occurred in the first 12 years of the 21 years of follow up , suggesting their treatment was probably begun too late . |
| 26 | The album is preceded by the single ‘ Rain ’ , with a demonic American preacher , a Gambian thunderstorm and the bells of Oxford 's Merton college all segued in the first 20 seconds . |
| 27 | It all happened at the 15th , which is now Birkdale 's 16th . |
| 28 | He knew he was n't going to regret the move from the moment they all assembled for the first rehearsal . |
| 29 | I expect they all went in the Second World War . |
| 30 | Twenty-seven of those came in the first match , against Pontypridd ; Bedford took a similar caning and Coventry only four points less . |