Example sentences of "and [adv] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The world has changed radically since the admission of individuals such as Marx and vastly in the 40 years since the 1951 convention was drawn up . |
| 2 | Rather it was one more step in the step by step approach to the reform of both local government and the politics and values of British society , which has been followed through consistently and vigorously throughout the 1980s . |
| 3 | No Bishop of Durham could ever forget , or was ever allowed to forget , how one of his predecessors Westcott mediated in a bitter strike ; how a vast crowd stood outside Auckland Castle , seeing the owners through the windows of one room and the miners through the windows of another , waiting for five hours as they watched the bishop go to and fro between the two rooms ; until he brought the parties to a happy agreement , and when he came out among the crowd he received an ovation . |
| 4 | He ran vigorously to and fro between the two kitchens . |
| 5 | Increased mobility has reduced the feeling of attachment to neighbourhoods ; the redevelopment of old housing estates in the 1950s and on into the 1970s broke up established communities . |
| 6 | From here I walked on to Men Scryfa , an iron age monument and on to the Nine Maidens prehistoric stone circle . |
| 7 | He opens with a history of homebuilts dating from Sir George Cayley ( who would have approved the sage advice to get an experienced hand to make the first test flight of your creation , though in his case the unfortunate man was more adept at handling a coach-and-four than a flying machine ) and proceeds through the Flying Flea era to the post-war rebirth in France and the USA , thence to Rutan and the foam/fibreglass revolution , and on to the 1980s emergence of IFR-capable alabaster-smooth hot-rod kitplanes that will blow the socks off anything Vero Beach and Wichita are ( or more accurately are n't ) building . |
| 8 | Palmer 's guess , recorded in his notebooks of 13 March , was that the rocks had catalysed the fusion , and so at the 7 April meeting the group discussed various metals that could be prime candidates for the process . |
| 9 | Many authorities responded reluctantly , some resisting the government 's wishes , and only in the 1970s did the number of pupils in comprehensive schools exceed the number attending selective schools . |
| 10 | Here January temperatures are below freezing point ( -0.5°C , 31°F ) and only in the three summer months does the average temperature rise above 15.5°C ( 60°F ) , July attaining 21°C ( 70°F ) . |
| 11 | It is one of the world 's fastest-growing industries which has burgeoned since the Second World War , and especially since the 1960s . |
| 12 | As Marx ( 1989 ) has discussed , the science of genetic engineering has been developed only since the 1940s and especially since the 1970s , but its origins really began with the efforts of Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel who , in the mid-nineteenth century , established the principles of heredity . |
| 13 | They are depicted on coins particularly of the period of the Roman empire , and especially for the two hundred years between AD 50 and 250 . |
| 14 | In this century , and especially in the 1950s , the inspectors ' functions became more concerned with giving professional advice and spreading good practice . |
| 15 | After World War One , and especially by the nineteen thirties , the , the purview of psychoanalysis , as it were , had , had enlarged to include the ego , as we saw , and so , so what happened then was , the structure of the ego was explored and not just the repressions . |
| 16 | it flies down their garden and in between the two houses it acts like a wind |
| 17 | Such a grant or renewal is a purpose under the Act of 1963 or the Act of 1968 and not of the 1976 Act . |
| 18 | After 1341 , however , the costs of war fell sharply from the levels they had reached between 1338 and 1341 , and not until the 1370s did they begin once again to approach those levels . |
| 19 | These factors probably explain the falling off of trade union activity among seamen in the north-east and elsewhere in the 1860s and early 1870s . |
| 20 | For the asymmetric T-section shown in figure 9.14(a) , the two iterative impedances are given by and which readily rearrange into the quadratic equations and Thus Of the two solutions to each of the equations ( 9.68 ) , those having positive components of iterative resistance are appropriate and these normally correspond to taking the positive root in each case . |
| 21 | Throughout the Harlem Renaissance of the twenties and through to the forties it was sustained by a few ambitious but poorly funded independent companies whose efforts received limited exposure . |
| 22 | As Duclaud-Williams ( 1978 ) suggests , the operation of rent rebates and other principles embodied in the Act tended at that time to swing the balance further in favour of home buyers and away from the two rented sectors . |
| 23 | In fact no permanent institutional reform came from the moves , and soon after the 1983 election Parsons and Jackling left , the latter returning to the Ministry of Defence . |
| 24 | Late in the 1370s and early in the 1380s the world order , already upset by long war , seemed set to suffer yet further disruption . |
| 25 | ‘ — and once in the seventies . |
| 26 | Germany , the cradle of the world 's pharmaceutical industry and home to the two largest firms , has some of Europe 's highest prices . |
| 27 | A particular variant of special deposits , used on and off during the 1970s , was supplementary special deposits ( ‘ the corset ’ ) . |
| 28 | I was trying to communicate between David and Tony , trying to get them to talk to each other , and as a result was going back and forth between the two of them which was a very frustrating experience , added to which I was tired from being on the road and I was very unhappy . |
| 29 | They were busy packing a basket with the things that Sigarup would need , talking quietly , moving back and forth between the two rooms : collecting blankets , cooking pots , a bag of wheat flour , salt and chilli , the cotton tarpaulin that they stretched across upright sticks to make a tent . |
| 30 | In between these two extremes comes the large mass of honourable and intelligent outdoor enthusiasts who listen to the frothings and bayings back and forth between the two factions with alarm , but without the detailed information from both sides which would enable them freely and democratically to make up their own minds , and if necessary bring their concerted pressure to bear on one side or the other to desist . |