Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The note destroyed the intimacy between the two . |
| 2 | The response of the 1960s and 70s to this failure to capture the essence of the traditional pub was the ruthlessly-applied corporate image and the proliferation of ‘ fun ’ theme-pubs . |
| 3 | Given that it was impossible to predict the response to the three post-dissolution treatment regimens , some degree of imbalance between the groups was almost inevitable . |
| 4 | But the response in the 1970s was very different from the response in the 1980s . |
| 5 | But the response in the 1970s was very different from the response in the 1980s . |
| 6 | With the income from the three films he had completed in eighteen months , he had stretched himself to buy a house in Beverly Hills . |
| 7 | Other controversial topics during the next year include a restructuring of the county programme , the state of pitches , the height and durability of the seam and a continuing inquest into the inability of the 17 county clubs to produce Test-class players . |
| 8 | With the addition of the two seats held by Moledet , the coalition now held 66 seats in the 120-member Knesset [ see p. 37872 for addition of four-member Agudat Yisrael to the coalition in November 1990 ] . |
| 9 | As soon as these figures are written down , you will know that the answer to the addition of the three rows of figures will be 11977 . |
| 10 | Further indications of the use of other material in C are the addition to the 1030 annal of the death of Earl Hakon , and the 1023 entry on Cnut 's reconciliation with Thorkell ; but maybe this stood in the common original and a precursor of D and E left it out . |
| 11 | A spokesman for PT Astra has however gone on record as saying that the majority of the 6,000 jobs to be created will go to incomers from Java , settling in Irian Jaya under the Indonesian government 's Transmigration Programme . |
| 12 | It has been argued , for example , that the majority of the 30,000 government employees in the reafforestation programme in two of the poorest regions of southern Italy are uneconomically employed . |
| 13 | The majority of the 850 former workers were asked for their opinions after a suggestion that they revert to a festive dinner — the original idea when the tradition was established in 1963 . |
| 14 | Amnesty claimed that Moslem fundamentalists made up the majority of the 8,000 people arrested for political reasons in 1989 . |
| 15 | These were the Jews who helped maintain the camp and who , like Wolski , had by luck and chance avoided the death that fell upon the majority of the 250,000 Jews who came to Sobibor . |
| 16 | For example , the balance switched from Labour to Conservative in the majority of the thirty-two boroughs between 1974 and 1978 . |
| 17 | An official closure date for the yard has not been announced , but the majority of the 500 workers are expected to have left towards the end of July , with the bulk going after this month 's commissioning ceremony . |
| 18 | THE APPROACH of the Eden Park Test initially was viewed with trepidation , and the majority of the five changes to the home team were seen as signs of disarray rather than as providing fresh blood . |
| 19 | Equally , not all the big Healeys were Alpine Rally competitors or howling club racers , and British as the car was , the majority of the 17,700 or so MkIIIs that completed the series also went to the US , where the sun shone a bit more often . |
| 20 | Eurotunnel , the company financing and overseeing the construction of the rail tunnel between France and the UK [ see p. 35469 ] , announced on May 28 , 1990 , that it had secured additional finance from the European Investment Bank , which had agreed to an increase in the project 's borrowing commitment from £1,000 million to £1,300 million , and that the majority of the 210 international banks supporting the tunnel project had agreed to allow the project to continue to borrow on its prevailing £5,000 million funding capacity . |
| 21 | They are behind the majority of the dozen new channels that will soon start broadcasting in Latin America . |
| 22 | The majority of the 64 communist deputies were expelled from the session , and 40 deputies walked out because of a vote to exclude television coverage . |
| 23 | Of the approximately 3,409,000 eligible voters , 10 per cent were overseas residents and 394,000 were Israeli Arabs ( although the majority of the 150,000 East Jerusalem Arabs had refused Israeli citizenship and the 1,750,000 West Bank and Gaza strip Palestinians remained unenfranchised ) . |
| 24 | It is as inadequate to argue , for example , that the PCF was simply the institutional terrain in which Nizan pursued a carefully orchestrated campaign of political and literary self-advancement and careerism , as it is to argue that for the majority of the ten years that he spent in the PCF Nizan remained unaware of the imperfections of Stalinist Soviet communism . |
| 25 | The appalling conditions in which the majority of the 15,000 gypsies live in England and Wales were portrayed in the 1967 report of the DoE 's Sociological Research Section , Gypsies and Other Travellers . |
| 26 | The majority of the 440 workers were Asians . |
| 27 | Among the longterm users , the majority of the 1989–90 applications were for H 2 -receptor blockers ( 88% ) . |
| 28 | The bill provoked outrage from the opposition , principally because the majority of the 35 urban communities benefiting most under the legislation were governed by left-wing councils , whereas only one of the 30 scheduled to make the largest contribution to redistribution ( a group includng Paris , Lyon , Bordeaux , Cannes , Nancy and Versailles ) had a Socialist council . |
| 29 | I do not speak for the Philippine health movement , rather these are my attempts to understand how both small-scale local initiatives and a national effort can alter the historical process which to date has left the majority of the 60 million Filipino people living in dire poverty in a land of plenty . |
| 30 | The roots of all this , it was agreed , lay deep in British history — perhaps in the moral nihilism of the 1960s , perhaps in the collectivism of the 1940s , perhaps in the decline of the entrepreneurial spirit in the late Victorian period , perhaps even in the many centuries of geographical isolation and freedom from foreign occupation behind the barrier of sea power . |