Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , we have made great progress in bringing inflation under control and we shall soon have a lower rate of inflation than Germany for the first time in a generation . |
| 2 | Many university professors were paid less than labourers in the eighteenth century ; if not clerics , they were forced , as were academics throughout the nineteenth century , to seek outside work to gain a living . |
| 3 | Egypt announced that its earnings from tourism fell by more than 50% in the first four months of the year , following a terrorism campaign by Islamic fundamentalists . |
| 4 | Small investors will pay less than institutions for the first instalment though how much less will not be known until June 29 after the international offer closes . |
| 5 | Small investors will pay less than institutions for the first instalment , although how much less will not be known until June 29 after the international offer closes . |
| 6 | Bureaucratic co-operations probably more likely to be available than money in the next few years ! |
| 7 | The West began to see aid to Eastern Europe as more important than aid to the Third World — ‘ charity begins at home ’ . |
| 8 | Little more than $200,000,000 for the first year was pledged , however , with some $60,000,000 of this on concessional terms ; further pledges of $150,000,000 were forthcoming for the 1991-93 period . |
| 9 | With a smothered curse he pulled her into his arms and began to kiss her , using a more powerful argument than words as the first touch of his mouth on hers sent everything out of Leonora 's head other than the fact that she loved and wanted this man to the point where she was almost ready to believe that she 'd been mistaken . |
| 10 | The Welsh FA have signed a sponsorship deal with Welsh Brewers Ltd which could net them more than £100,000 over the next three years . |
| 11 | And sports participation throughout Wales has fallen by more than 5pc since the last SCW survey in 1989-90 . |
| 12 | The expectation of an exclusively cash wage was developing rather than established , particular rather than general in the eighteenth century . |
| 13 | They might also , and in a perverse way , quite sensibly believe that if US farmers can produce grain ‘ cheaper ’ than farmers in the Third World then it will also be in the interests of the Third World to participate in such a global food system . |
| 14 | Navies had changed much more than armies during the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | In the real world , the safe world of the present , with nothing harder to handle than Ralph in the next room , the phone began to ring . |
| 16 | Deposits can be made by regular savings or by lump sum deposits subject to a maximum of £9,000 over the five year period but you may not deposit more than £3,000 in the first year or £1,800 in any succeeding year . |
| 17 | Philip Gould nudged stony-faced Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega out of army fatigues and into cowboy boots ; the same Philip Gould was described by The Times as having ‘ helped save the Labour Party more than £500,000 at the last election ’ . |
| 18 | Sunderland made a profit of more than £500,000 in the last financial year , which finished with a Wembley final appearance . |
| 19 | Stronger than expected demand is the main reason : the International Energy Agency reckons that OECD oil consumption climbed by more than 5% from the last quarter of 1987 to the same period of 1988 . |
| 20 | Virgin had shown a profit of more than £11m in the last year . |
| 21 | It was a large basement , with no street-level exposure , and although sales for the first two days were excitingly high , the next few months were a disaster . |
| 22 | Thus although items from the second half of the 20th Century did appear to suffer from less serious deterioration than those from its first half ( with no post-1950 material being considered ‘ Fragile ’ ) , of all defective 20th Century publications noted , 7% were ‘ Fragile ’ , whereas the comparable figure for 19th Century publications was only 2% , and even if the proportion of defective items placed in the category of least deterioration — ‘ Poor ’ — was smaller for 19th Century items than for those of the 20th Century ( 76% as opposed to 80% ) , the difference was extremely slight . |
| 23 | The decision to put the technology division up for sale marks an about-turn for Chrysler which has spent more than $1billion in the last four years on its policy of diversifying out of cars into related areas . |
| 24 | THE GOVERNMENT will spend more than £1bn before the next general election to take the sting out of the poll tax . |
| 25 | At that meeting he will be able to announce to clubs that ITV has agreed to pay more than £7m over the next four years , an extension of a contract in which it paid £10.5m over five years . |
| 26 | The shop in Station Road , Liphook , has a staff of more than 40 voluntary helpers who have raised more than £41,000 in the first year . |
| 27 | from its low point of 106cm in the fourteenth century , it had climbed rapidly to more than 120cm in the seventeenth and was well on its way to the twentieth-century average of about 137cm at the withers . |
| 28 | Both BBC-TV and ITV , both early and main evening news , all followed the same trend : they all screened more presentation than controversy until the third week ; then they screened between two and four times as much controversy as presentation in the third week , before reverting to more presentation at the end of the campaign . |
| 29 | Average milk yields nationally have increased by more than 1,000kg in the last 25 years as the result of a very high usage of artificial insemination and milk recording nationwide , and more recently an increasing interest in embryo transfer as well . |
| 30 | COSTAIN 'S profits were never less than £55m during the second half of the booming 1980s and they peaked at nearly £90m . |