Example sentences of "the [num] and [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last decade of the struggle was the 1680s and the period is known as ‘ The Killing Times ’ . |
| 2 | It is worth pointing out however that there is n't really much difference in speed ( or for that matter in fuel consumption ) between the 1.8 and the 2.0-litre . |
| 3 | There will then be 3n control areas per cylinder on the 3350 and no loss of performance will result from the transfer . |
| 4 | She then opened the second case and performed a similar ritual with the .357 and the Charter Arms .22 . |
| 5 | We survived the Thirties and the war , we sold successfully up to 1987 ( a flourish of porcelain animals and birds sold out 90 per cent before the opening party , immediately after Black Monday in the City ) ; even in 1991 we had secured a collection which made the first half of the year look profitable . |
| 6 | The movement could never be separated from political questions whatever its leaders wanted , for the question of non-conforming raised the question of establishment , itself a political question dating to the anti-church rate campaigns of the 1830s and the creation of the British Anti-State Church Society by Edward Miall in 1844 . |
| 7 | As always with KEF , the installation booklets for both the 103/4 and the KUBE are exemplary , models of clarity and good , sensible advice on such topics as positioning , amplifier requirements , wiring up , system fine-tuning and so on . |
| 8 | After the depression of the 1890s and the dilapidation of many of the lines , the companies were able to make a remarkable resurgence in the early decades of the twentieth century before their terminal decline . |
| 9 | Despite sore feet and blisters , they completed the 26 and a bit miles to raise thousands of pounds for charity . |
| 10 | The first was the division of Western Europe after 1957 into the European Economic Community of the Six and the rest . |
| 11 | It is certainly true that one strand at least in a Northumbrian view of the past seems to have thought of Nechtanesmere as destroying the position of military dominance originally achieved by Eadwine in the first half of the seventh century ( HE II , 5 ) , whereas Eadwine 's ascendancy over the Britons in Wales had disappeared by the mid-630s and an overlordship of the southern English kingdoms , restored only temporarily in the late 650s , was lost long before 685 ( see above , p. 85 ) . |
| 12 | This is excess male mortality in humans as a function of age and you can see that it peaks in the mid-twenties and the peak is mainly accounted for by violence and accidents and er things like that , risky behaviour on the part of males and er , as you 'll see , throughout the life span there 's a , there 's a positive percentage excess in male mortality . |
| 13 | But the Scots have always had a deep-rooted sense of inferiority about the English : it was born out of the defeat of the '45 and the surrender of 1707 and , as Boswell and others had observed with chagrin and sometimes rage , the condescension and contempt of the English towards the Scots and their impossible tongue . |
| 14 | Coke died in the 1840s and a monument was erected to him at Holkham , guarded by a cudding Devon cow carved in stone . |
| 15 | A. V. Dicey 's Law and Public Opinion in England , first published in 1905 with a second edition in 1914 , was a distinguished lawyer 's analysis of the growth of ‘ state collectivisim ’ since the 1870s and a warning ( more insistent in the 1914 edition , after the Liberal reforms ) that these developments were incompatible with democracy . |
| 16 | As he told county councillors , the service had not been comprehensively reviewed since the Seventies and the job it is required to do has altered considerably with time notably , more of the work is to do with helping at road traffic accidents . |
| 17 | Using ADS. air traffic controllers will be able to monitor movements of suitably equipped aircraft automatically , building up a radar-like picture of their positions in areas beyond the range of radar cover , ADS is likely to be introduced into routine service over the North Atlantic between the mid-1990s and the turn of the century . |
| 18 | The sacrifice of TWW and the merger of ABC and Rediffusion into Thames were acts of some courage and panache , in which the ebullient personality of ITA chairman , Lord Hill , a former broadcasting star as the Radio Doctor in the 1940s and a cabinet minister under Harold Macmillan , were an important factor . |
| 19 | The sixteen and a half foot long great white shark matched the description of one that killed diver John Ford on Wednesday off the resort town of Byron |
| 20 | The other three parties to contest the 1989 elections were the SWAPO-Democrats ( SWAPO-D , founded by SWAPO dissidents in the 1970s and a participant from 1985 in the transitional government , Andreas Shipanga , l. ; on Aug. 13 SWAPO-D announced that it would disband and join the NPF ) ; Christian Democratic Action ( CDA , Rev. Peter Kalangula , l. ) ; and the Namibia National Democratic Party ( NNDP , Paul Helmuth , l . ) . |
| 21 | It gained ground as a result of the election results of the 1970s and the development of the adversary politics thesis . |
| 22 | However , even Iran 's interest in CENTO dwindled in the 1970s and the Pact finally collapsed at the end of the decade when both Iran and Pakistan withdrew . |
| 23 | Carey explains that the ICI upstream strategy has changed in recent years with the collapse of the oil price from its post-crisis peak in the 1970s and the removal of worries that oil might run out — at any rate in the foreseeable future . |
| 24 | They also claim that these discontinuities were aggravated by the more frequent turnover of party control in the government in the 1970s and the influence exercised in both parties by its more partisan groups . |
| 25 | But the party has also lost out because of the salience of race ( which encouraged the white south to defect to the Republicans ) , embourgeoisement of the working class , and the Social Issue ( concern about the rise of the anti-Vietnam war protest movement in the 1970s and the assertiveness and challenges to traditional values by various minority groups ) . |
| 26 | The Boston economy expanded rapidly during the 1970s and the shift from a manufacturing to a service base accelerated during that time . |
| 27 | Under the chairmanship of Sir Peter Parker the concept of the commercial railway and the social railway was developed at the end of the 1970s and the start of the 1980s . |
| 28 | Jeff Jukes managed Camel in the 1970s and the Fixx in the 1980s . |
| 29 | This follows on from the 1970s and the health conscious 80s when increasing numbers of people were becoming more responsible towards themselves and their lifestyle . |
| 30 | It 's a whirlwind ride which rarely lingers for more than a minute on individual songs until we reach the '90s and the Zoo TV extravaganza . |