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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | It is one of the world 's fastest-growing industries which has burgeoned since the Second World War , and especially since the 1960s . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In this century , and especially in the 1950s , the inspectors ' functions became more concerned with giving professional advice and spreading good practice . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Late in the 1370s and early in the 1380s the world order , already upset by long war , seemed set to suffer yet further disruption . |
| 18 | ‘ — and once in the seventies . |
| 19 | Germany , the cradle of the world 's pharmaceutical industry and home to the two largest firms , has some of Europe 's highest prices . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He had been drifting back and forth between the two ever since . |
| 24 | Actually , it 's a very pleasant way to work — I 've set up one room for word processing and another for screenshot manipulation , so I can switch back and forth between the two whilst I 'm writing captions . |
| 25 | Apart from whether the weak transmissions from a pair of £25-sets operating on the American Citizens ' Band FM frequency could have penetrated the thick walls of Blake 's cell , which were reinforced with cast-iron segments , with no external aerial and close to the 17 feet-high perimeter wall , there is also the question of how Blake managed to keep a radio in his cell without it once being noticed over six months during which he and his cell were regularly searched . |
| 26 | This momentum throughout the industry was difficult to halt and later in the 1970s with the second oil shock and over capacity of 40 per cent , an added pressure element came from a weak US dollar which allowed relatively cheap American products on to the market on this side of the Atlantic . |
| 27 | In Upper Halling we see how Monarch Hill has been derived , on the 1634 map and also on the 1731 tithe map it is written Mannock Hill . |
| 28 | when I was sixteen because it 's then I started to get these free passes and I had a sister then who lived at Rye and I had never been across London so the next door neighbour came with me to see me across London er because I was so young you see and I said right as long as you show me across London I can come back alone , you see , and so I came back alone and I , that 's when I started , so from sixteen and er and as I say I went to Cambridge in the nineteen thirty one , it was the last day of well say nineteen thirty two , you see , and , and also in the twenties I was going on holiday alone and I went to once er to the Isle of Man and when I was er I , I sat next , well being by myself , you see , they put me in , to a little table near the wall . |
| 29 | A full list of projects will appear in JFIT News and also in the 1991 JFIT Annual report due to be published in October . |
| 30 | Brighton 1989 was the most smoothly achieving conference Labour has held since 1963 , and probably since the 1940s . |