Example sentences of "and [prep] the [num ord] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His left hand rested on the desk a silver ring set with a large brown stone on the little finger , and between the first and second fingers a cigarette with a thin blue tape of smoke rising steadily from it . |
| 2 | What some writers now term the ‘ widening gap ’ between the rich and the poor , both within countries and between the First and the Third Worlds , might tempt us to subscribe pessimistically to the view that the countries of the Third World are passive victims of the exercise of First World hegemon countries ' power . |
| 3 | Around the 4th , and between the 10th and 14th , events could radically alter the existing pattern of your experience . |
| 4 | By the eighth century the eastward drift of shingle along the coast had given natural protection to the spread of the salt marsh , and during the 12th and 13th centuries Pevensey Levels gradually changed from saltmarsh to reed and sedge meadows and ultimately pasture . |
| 5 | Late on the 14th and during the 15th and 16th a further series of Atlantic troughs brought extremely changeable and , at times , very windy weather back to all parts . |
| 6 | For the next two years after that , it increased at 2s a year , and during the seventh and last year of apprenticeship it moved more quickly , so that at the end of the seventh year , the by now 21-year-old man could be earning more than double his wage of a year before . |
| 7 | The charter was for the buying and selling of horses , and during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the feast was largely attended by gypsies engaged in horse dealing . |
| 8 | A Thursday market had been established in 1662 and during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries many local families had prospered through their involvement not only in farming but in the lead smelting and millstone trades . |
| 9 | London was the greatest town in England , and during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries its economic resources increased more markedly than those of most other parts of the country . |
| 10 | East Germany shows a sharp fall in the birth rate during the First World War and after the Second and the effect of the Second World War on the males of fighting age . |
| 11 | The foundations of modern archaeology were laid down in the 17th century , and throughout the 17th and 18th centuries emphasis was put on the recording of archaeological monuments , initially as part of general topographical works , but eventually as part of a study of the monuments themselves . |
| 12 | The growth of population and the urbanisation of western and central Europe , which occurred during the Age of Discovery and throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , created a growing demand for the importation of basic foodstuffs and agriculturally derived raw materials such as cotton , wool and hides . |
| 13 | In earlier times and into the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , many of the basic administrative and judicial activities were carried out through the arrangement of hundreds , hundred courts , and hundredal manors courts being held at hundred meeting places , where three men for every tithing or vill had to attend at three-weekly intervals . |
| 14 | Yet the tradition of the Germanic tribes was that judgement should be pronounced by the whole body of freemen , by all the ‘ suitors ’ , all those who had the right and duty of regular attendance at the court ; and the jurisdiction of the old royal and popular courts was cut across here , there and everywhere by the numerous feudal courts erected in increasing numbers on the basis of royal grant or mere usurpation from the ninth century onwards , and in the eleventh and twelfth by the appearance of borough courts and town courts of various kinds and courts which merchants set up to handle their own problems , which could hardly be handled by the warrior president or the yokel suitors of a popular court . |
| 15 | With thoughts of conservation I can understand this but then one must understand the times when these were being worked and in the 19th and early 20th century this chalk gave a great many people employment and allowed families to be brought up in reasonably comfortable conditions and many of us now owe our very existance to these cement factories , our fathers and grandfathers earning their livings working on them . |
| 16 | In later centuries the rate of clearance may have slowed , and in the 17th and 18th centuries a great deal of replanting was carried out in the formation of the large parklands . |
| 17 | There was a tendency for the highly born to be preferred to the prince bishoprics of Germany ; and in the tenth and early eleventh centuries training to knightly pursuits had been almost a necessary qualification for a successful German bishop . |
| 18 | If he makes a will , as most men do , it is almost certain that he will set apart a considerable proportion for the saying of masses ; if he should neglect to do so , and in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries it is regarded as almost a sin to die without making a will , the Church ought to make the provision which he has failed to make for his soul . |
| 19 | Students will need to be piloted through the maze of attainment targets , and in the fourth and fifth years particularly they will need advice on which core and foundation subjects to follow to GCSE and which to follow for what the Act coyly describes as ‘ a reasonable time ’ . |
| 20 | Each year of the cycle the first tithe was paid to the Levites ( with the exception of the Sabbath ) and on the third and sixth year of the cycle the second tithe was a poor tithe . |