Example sentences of "in [num] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | While there was no record of the outcome in eight of the cases , seventeen men received prison sentences of two years or more and one other was sent to a psychiatric hospital . |
| 32 | The age of the victim was not always clear , but about one in eight of the cases involved children under the age of 10 . |
| 33 | By 1940 , unemployment was nearly 50% less than in 1932 ; but even in the best pre-war year ( 1937 ) one in eight of the labour force was out of work . |
| 34 | One in eight of the population over 65 is severely disabled , and twice that number moderately disabled ( Phillipson and Walker , 1986 , p. 6 ) . |
| 35 | During the 1980s the participation of 18-year-olds in higher education doubled from one in eight of the population to one in four . |
| 36 | Instead of an obsession with Germany 's position , should we not be obsessed with what is happening in Croatia , where one in eight of the population has been displaced , we have provided only £77,000 in humanitarian aid and the people are being pounded into the ground ? |
| 37 | Full thickness intestinal biopsy specimens were obtained in eight of the children . |
| 38 | A young care-leaver 's chances of being made a housing priority vary from one in three in Scotland to one in four in a London borough or metropolitan authority , to only one in eight in the South of England . |
| 39 | Edward Bohun , a younger brother of the Earl of Hereford , received 400 marks , worth of land and was granted the office of Constable in view of the infirmity of the earl himself ; John Neville of Hornby and Robert de Ufford , a knight of Suffolk who had served in Gascony in 1324–5 with the Earl of Rent , were given 200 marks for ‘ helping in the same enterprise ’ . |
| 40 | The workhouse , erected with its fine boardroom in 1838 at a cost of £2,000 , was built to accommodate 170 inmates . |
| 41 | The Elizabethan World Picture appeared in 1943 during a period when many feared for the collapse of western civilisation . |
| 42 | In the wartime agreement on pooling brains and resources for the original work on the atomic bomb , which was signed at Quebec in 1943 between the United States and Britain in association with Canada , there were five clauses : the signatories would not use atomic weapons against each other ; they would not use them against third parties without the others ' consent ; no information would be given to third parties without mutual consent ; Britain disclaimed any interest in commercial and industrial exploitation , because the heavy burden of production would fall on the United States ; and a Combined Policy Committee would be set up to ensure full and effective collaboration . |
| 43 | Charles Whiteside , of Tivoli Cottages , Moresby , joined Sekers in 1943 as an apprentice overlooker before becoming shift manager and later production manager . |
| 44 | Tsar Simeon II , who had succeeded to the throne in 1943 at the age of seven , had been forced into exile by the 1946 referendum result and currently lived in Madrid . |
| 45 | Regular post natal classes were started by Kent County Council Health Department at Sidcup , KENT in 1943 on the recommendation of Dr. Anni Knoll ; it was here that Molly was persuaded to teach again in 1947 , starting the snowball which led eventually to nationwide representation . |
| 46 | The new service was introduced in 1635 on the roads between London and Edinburgh , Plymouth , and Chester and Holyhead ( for Ireland ) , and on by-roads off these major routes . |
| 47 | Among the traditional agricultural tools and implements which remain today , you can see in common use the enchada , a cross between a pick and a hoe which first came to Madeira in 1440 from the Algarve , and also a serrated sickle ( fouce ) for grass-cutting and a kind of pruning hook ( podão ) . |
| 48 | In a collection of essays published in 1948 under the title Linguistics and Literary History , Spitzer defined his method by the term ‘ philological circle ’ . |
| 49 | The National Health Service ( NHS ) was created in 1948 as a service designed to provide every citizen in post-war Britain with ‘ whatever medical treatment he requires , in whatever form he requires it ’ ( Sir William Beveridge ) . |
| 50 | In 1949 , the Soviet Union organized the Council for Mutual Economic Aid ( Comecon ) , paralleling the Organization for European Economic Cooperation , which had been formed in 1948 as a framework within which the United States could distribute aid to rebuild the warshattered West European economies . |
| 51 | Mr Billy Baker is the longest serving Engine Driver , having started in the Depot in 1948 as a fireman on the old steam engines , becoming a Driver when the diesel locomotives were introduced into Donnington . |
| 52 | The state of Israel itself was set up in 1948 as a homeland for the Jewish people . |
| 53 | It was Hassan Zamzam , Fatima Zamzam 's son , the same Hassan who as a 40-day-old baby had been carried by his mother out of Um Al-Farajh in 1948 on the family 's road to exile . |
| 54 | This picture of a hot early stage of the universe was first put forward by the scientist George Gamow in a famous paper written in 1948 with a student of his , Ralph Alpher . |
| 55 | No 15 , a 2-6-2T loco built in Nivelles , Belgium in 1948 for the Jokioisten Railway in Finland stands stored in Llanfair station yard . |
| 56 | Palatinate of Durham Within the Department of Palaeography of the University of Durham , established in 1948 for the promotion of the study of manuscript material mainly from the northern counties , there are major collections dating from the eleventh to the nineteenth centuries . |
| 57 | Formed in 1948 at a meeting at the Jolly Blacksmith in Twickenham , ESCA runs school competitions at all ages from under-11 to under-19 . |
| 58 | Truman owed a personal debt of loyalty to Louis Johnson , who had served as treasurer of Truman 's re-election committee in 1948 at a time when most commentators had consigned the President to ignominious defeat at the hands of Governor Dewey . |
| 59 | One especial favourite was David Mitchell who had joined the Navy in 1948 at the age of fifteen . |
| 60 | As I said at the beginning , the National Health Services was born in 1948 through the efforts of the Labour Party , the first comprehensive free health service in the world . |