Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as interest in training , and co-ordinated training programmes has developed throughout the 70s and 80s , so has interest in co-operative training schemes . |
| 2 | Already another member of the nursing staff has enrolled in the 1993/94 course . |
| 3 | The aquarium is a prime example of an out-of-date building which badly needs bringing into the 1990's . |
| 4 | Indeed the amount of oil spilt worldwide has fallen since the 1970s while the volume shipped has grown . |
| 5 | Some have argued that the rise of the Happy Days mob shows how far Hollywood has fallen since the Seventies , the era of the Movie Brats . |
| 6 | So much so , that it has fallen from the 50 per cent standard of the 1930s , to less than 15 per cent in the late 1970s — which is no better , and in some areas far worse , than the standard already achieved before the First World War when the Probation Act of 1907 had hardly consolidated itself . |
| 7 | They provide about 80 per cent of total lending for private house purchase , though this figure has fluctuated during the 1980s as banks entered , retreated from and then re-entered the mortgage market . |
| 8 | ‘ This whole Unit has grown from the one room originally set aside for road accidents some years ago . |
| 9 | Money invested in unit trusts has grown throughout the 1980's , particularly in 1986 , with funds under management growing by 63 per cent . |
| 10 | The death toll has risen into the 20s , an estimated 4,000 businesses are gutted . |
| 11 | With the spread of home ownership , a process that began in earnest during the inter-war years and has accelerated since the 1960s , the passing on of the family home will become an increasingly important aspect of defining who owns what , and confirming the advantages enjoyed by some groups of the population . |
| 12 | ‘ Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her ’ |
| 13 | Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her . |
| 14 | Adultery has been a hanging matter — both in this and in the usual sense of the phrase — for the literature of the past , and perhaps it could be suggested that both senses may at times be presented to the mind by what Amis does with the subject , and that there is no striking difference in this respect between what he did in the Sixties and what he has done in the Eighties . |
| 15 | It was a goal of the highest class , reflecting the progress the 29-year-old striker has made in the five years since he left Blundell Park to earn fame and fortune with Norwich City and Rangers . |
| 16 | What the figure does not reveal is the shift in the balance that has occurred during the 1980s towards overseas securities , prompted initially by the relaxation of exchange controls in 1979 and encouraged subsequently by the strong performance of some overseas economies and stock-markets . |
| 17 | The decline has occurred since the 1950s , but little of the mistletoe on sale came from British sources . |
| 18 | Simultaneously with the preparation of the new housing benefit scheme , the Government began operating a policy of significantly increasing the level of council house rents , and a threefold increase has occurred in the nine years since 1979 ( House of Commons Library Note , 19 July 1988 ) . |
| 19 | An even greater sustained impact on productivity has occurred amongst the thousands of small farmers in the former reserve areas of Zimbabwe . |
| 20 | This principle in Hinduism is called ‘ Pancha Bhootas ’ and has to do with the five states of creative substances and their relationship to the five sensory faculties . |
| 21 | Golf , from nothing , has become in the Eighties the most successful sport , internationally , practised in these islands . |
| 22 | In addition to seeking a long overdue first global hurdles title , Jackson wants to qualify for the 100 metres and compete alongside his great pal , Linford Christie . |
| 23 | In addition to seeking a long-overdue first global hurdles title , Jackson wants to qualify for the 100 metres and compete alongside his great pal , Linford Christie . |
| 24 | This trend has persisted in the 1980s ; by 1989 the mean age at marriage stood at 24.8 for women and 26.9 for men . |
| 25 | The Secretary of State wrote : ’ I can assure you that the action the company has taken has not been forced on it by any of the measures the Government has introduced following the MMC's report on the brewing industry . ’ |
| 26 | Some are looking to sell their practices or merge their way out of problems that have been brought on by the severest recession the UK has experienced since the 1930s . |
| 27 | A revelation of beauty has entered into the one person , but not the other . |
| 28 | Despite all this , a pervasive lack of confidence has settled over the two institutions . |
| 29 | Most recent geographical research work has concentrated on the three related problems of declining public transport , centralization and reduction of rural services , and increased rural deprivation . |
| 30 | Our preceding discussion has concentrated upon the two major views of the importance of money , and this section intends to clarify their implication for the direction and significance of monetary policy . |