Example sentences of "saw the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year saw the fifth staging of the Quadriathlon World Championships with competitors faced with a 5K swim , 20K kayak leg , 100K cycle ride and 21K ( half-marathon distance ) run . |
| 2 | The ‘ Let ’ rule has stood since 1880 without too much fuss and I think I might get annoyed if I saw the fifth set in a Wimbledon final decided by a serve which simply hit the net and ‘ died ’ on the receiver 's side . |
| 3 | Murat and the French Ambassador , La Forest , saw the 2nd of May as the opportunity for one of those severe lessons which had been so effective in Naples . |
| 4 | It 's significant , too , that while Herbert Tree was laying the foundations of drama training in England , the famous partnership of Stanislavsky and Danchenko in Russia was beginning , and saw the first developments towards the establishment of the Moscow Arts Theatre . |
| 5 | This week arguably saw the first real skirmishes of that impending struggle for succession : the sub-text of set-piece deliveries by Sir Geoffrey Howe , Kenneth Baker , Michael Heseltine et al . |
| 6 | Cargill Agriculture 's Cambridgeshire-based Philip Simpson saw the first sample of Torrent a week ago . |
| 7 | The presidential election of 1952 saw the first large-scale hiring of skilled advertising men to do the politicians ' persuading for them . |
| 8 | When asked what use it was , Franklin gave the same reply as when he saw the first balloon ascent in 1783 … ’ |
| 9 | As he saw the first men fall in the ambush , Lachlan 's shipmaster yelled for his men to fall back . |
| 10 | It saw the first public flotation of a building society , the first moves towards acquisition of a major bank , Girobank , by another society , some further widening of building society powers , a tendency for more societies to become ‘ tied agents ’ of insurance companies and further excursions by societies into the wider field of financial services . |
| 11 | Annual gate receipts rose during the period from £1,55 to £5,309 , and 1912 saw the first four-figure profit — just over £1,000 . |
| 12 | In the summer of the same year that saw the first air mail service across Western Canada I met Hollick-Kenyon by arrangement in New York . |
| 13 | JTR had chickened out and was travelling south - ‘ we saw the first snows fall before we left … ’ — to write up his chapter retrospectively on previous rambles in Skye , for some obscure reason . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's very early days — we only saw the first draft last month and it could be three years before it is implemented . |
| 15 | I know people imagined I was much older than I was when they saw the first film because some newspapers referred to me as ‘ the Old Lady of the Dales ’ . |
| 16 | The war brought , however , a number of naval victories and 1740 saw the first performance of Rule Britannia , which soon acquired the status of a second national anthem . |
| 17 | ‘ Last year saw the first Pro-am pairs competition which proved so popular with the riders . |
| 18 | OCTOBER 20th saw the first ever ‘ Academic Mass ’ held at the Cathedral in Lancaster and the fulfilment of a life long dream for a lady in Altrincham . |
| 19 | 1 May also saw the first operational sorties by the 21 Squadron Blenheims from Luqa , together with another claim for the Ju88 by the anti-aircraft defences . |
| 20 | 4 May also saw the first sortie by 69 Squadron 's latest addition — a photo-reconnaissance Hurricane . |
| 21 | Labourer Nick Stylianou , 26 , was repairing paving stones when he saw the first bomb explode . |
| 22 | A micro-second after he saw the first flash , the bullet which had come from it was embedding itself in his skull . |
| 23 | THE vote that gave the Democrats the White House and is expected to give them their tightest grip on Congress in decades also saw the first black woman elected to the Senate . |
| 24 | One survivor says : ‘ When I saw the first bomb fall , I knew that it was going to be a bad day for America ’ . |
| 25 | He moved as soon as he saw the first bead of sweat break on her pallid face , and then he was almost too late . |
| 26 | She was in her first-floor sitting room , secure in her easy chair , when she heard the first sirens , saw the first police cars turn into her street . |
| 27 | Sharpe twisted to look behind and saw the first Dragoons reach the skyline . |
| 28 | I only saw the first page which , in case you 've forgotten the system , shows the subject 's photograph , age , length of time spent in the employ of the company , when he — or she — joined us , when he — or she — left us . |
| 29 | Yesterday saw the first meeting of North Essex Health Authority , which replaces the consortium made up of the old north east , mid and west Essex district health authorities . |
| 30 | 1991 saw the first time that the Open School was able to run a summer holiday programme which culminated in the performance of dance , music and drama work done by the children . |