Example sentences of "[subord] [num] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nationally the Home Office would provide no more than 1,000 officers in this financial year and no more than 500 in the next year , which would give Cheshire six to seven new officers on a pro-rata basis . |
| 2 | In reply , Boycott and Brearley put on no less than 129 for the first wicket — jolly good in a Test , but they took thirty-eight overs about it , with Boycott not getting into double figures until the seventeenth over . |
| 3 | Sotheby 's paid dearly for this error of judgment with no less than six of the first nine lots in its evening sale failing to find buyers . |
| 4 | By the end of the second day 's fighting , over 3,000 of its men had surrendered ; more than 1,200 from the 211th Regiment alone . |
| 5 | Mr Lamont said this measure should reduce ‘ overhang ’ of empty properties by more than 20,000 over the next few months . |
| 6 | Vacancies for chief executives and managing directors have risen by more than one-third in the last year , while senior managerial vacancies have increased by 17.4 p.c . |
| 7 | Technology chairman Derek Lewis expects sales in the hundreds rather than thousands in the first year , but is aiming for between 5% and 10% of the UK Unix market thereafter . |
| 8 | It had always distressed him that the West and the Eastern bloc could both budget so generously for what he considered to be the evils of the nuclear industry while millions in the Third World were left wanting for food . |
| 9 | Ninety four people were arrested some as young as fifteen in the first month … |
| 10 | And remember , you will have a wider role to play in the working of your ship , as one of a first aid party , or a member of a gun crew , for instance . |
| 11 | REAR-ADMIRAL GARTH WATSON , who has died aged 78 , had three distinguished careers : as an Admiralty engineer ; as one of the first officers of the newly formed Naval Electrical Branch ; and as an outstanding secretary of the Institution of Civil Engineers . |
| 12 | As one of the first members recalled , ‘ When we reached thirteen most of us felt we were too big for the Sunday School , and there was a gap of a few years until we were able to join the YMCA at seventeen … |
| 13 | How can I communicate that auditory shock , that dumbstruck astonishment I experienced as one of the first privileged listeners … |
| 14 | When the new Institution for the Deaf and Dumb was opened in Edinburgh in 1810 with John Braidwood , grandson of Thomas Braidwood , as Principal , Walter Geikie was enrolled as one of the first students . |
| 15 | Seventeen years later , then Flight Lieutenant Reif , he flew as one of the first navigators in 2 Squadron Canberras when that unit deployed to South Vietnam in April 1967 . |
| 16 | While the rediscovery of women 's experiences has been seen as one of the first tasks , the problem is not just one of ‘ bringing women back in ’ but involves a struggle to upend traditional theories , concepts and methods so that women 's experiences , their relationships to each other , to children and to men become part of the mainstream . |
| 17 | For an established and successful brand , the objectives might well be , to a large extent , ‘ maintenance ’ objectives : to keep a high level of awareness of the brand , ideally as one of the first two in its field spontaneously named by respondents to a regular survey ( something often described in the US as ‘ share of mind ’ ) ; to maintain a high level of belief in the brand 's superiority over its main competitor on certain key attributes of the product type ; to encourage people to offer the product to their visitors . |
| 18 | Richard Elliott , the Headmaster , chose Francis as one of the first pupil teachers , and in due course promoted him to the position of junior teacher at the Margate branch of the Asylum . |
| 19 | By 1568 they were incorporated as one of the first two English joint-stock companies , the Society of the Mines Royal , with some important royal servants and London merchants as members . |
| 20 | In 1903 he went to Merton College , Oxford , as one of the first Rhodes scholars and in 1906 he gained a second-class degree in modern history . |
| 21 | Although it is modest compared with the major producing fields , it has great significance as one of the first of a new generation of small fields to use the processing facilities offered by another field operator . |
| 22 | There has long been the counting of people as one of the first activities of states ( as we shall see in Chapter 4 ) . |
| 23 | He confirmed that the East coast main line from Edinburgh to London King 's Cross — which the Government has selected as one of the first to be privatised — was very profitable . |
| 24 | As one of the last prime ministers of the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev , Mr Ryzhkov went on to do even worse damage to the Russian economy . |
| 25 | His second reputation as one of the 20th century 's most important poets was achieved gradually over 30 years and nearly a thousand poems . |
| 26 | Swami Muktananda , regarded as one of the 20th century 's great Indian meditation masters , says in his book , ‘ Where are you going ? ’ |
| 27 | Now consider what happens when two of the first generation tall peas are crossed . |