Example sentences of "to [adj] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within marriage the most important change experienced by women was the steady decline in the fertility rate until after World War II ( Table 2 ) , while in the 1870s there were over 295 legitimate live births per 1000 married women aged 15–44 , this figure had dropped to 222 by the first decade of the twentieth century and to only 111 by the 1930s . |
| 2 | Some traders expect it to fall to 3,100 within the next few weeks . |
| 3 | More than 680 homes were sold in January , rising to 750 for the first three weeks of this month . |
| 4 | The sole legal political party , the National Union for Independence and the Revolution ( Union nationale pour l'independance et la revolution-UNIR ) , was set up by Habre in 1984 ; in line with Habre 's " national reconciliation " policy , several former opponents of his regime were brought into the UNIR central committee when the membership of this body was expanded from 80 to 120 at the second UNIR national congress on Nov. 23-26 , 1988 . |
| 5 | The irony is , however , that the economic crisis which might clinch their switch to Labour at the next election — with continuing balance-of-payments problems , punishing interest rates , a sinking pound , inflation and recession — would by definition preclude the heavy public investment required to implement the Kinnock programme . |
| 6 | There was a drop of about six feet to the top of the window beneath , and an equal drop to that on the first floor . |
| 7 | Further , the evidence for the late Merovingian period is not comparable to that for the sixth century . |
| 8 | The 5th Battalion white metal badge was similar to that of the 4th . |
| 9 | With trading in the first quarter similar to that of the second half of last year , the company is continuing to exercise tight control of the business . |
| 10 | This year their net first half contribution was negative which will strongly exaggerate the seasonal bias towards the second half er , conditions will still be far from ideal but with the Gulf factor out of the way and some visible improvement in our overseas markets , particularly North America we think the trading environment will be broadly equivalent to that of the second half of last year . |
| 11 | If the latter 's optical axis is parallel to that of the first crystal than the beam is totally transmitted , if it is perpendicular to the first optical axis none of the beam gets through . |
| 12 | This is perhaps the main contribution of the sexual economy of the nineteenth century to that of the twentieth . |
| 13 | On the whole , with certain exceptions — such as Egyptian cotton and Indian jute — these economic specialisations did not prove to be permanent , or else , where permanent , they did not develop on any scale comparable to that of the twentieth century . |
| 14 | If more than 30 module names match the wild card search string then you will have to reinvoke the cache with the start string set to that of the 30th module name if you wish to view the other module names . |
| 15 | We understand that offence was caused by our slogan ‘ Strengthen the Christian Aid Poor ’ and that the general feeling was that poverty in UK/I is minimal in comparison to that of the Third World . |
| 16 | When there is more than one stressed syllable in the head there is usually a slight change in pitch from the level of one stressed syllable to that of the next , the change being in the direction of the beginning pitch of the tone on the tonic syllable . |
| 17 | Women with their womb-smelling warmth , their talcum powder and milky breasts had seen to that in the first four weeks of life . |
| 18 | Hereford united travelled north to Rochdale , only to slip to 17th in the 4th division . |
| 19 | Sutton Coldfield fought back to 2–2 in the 57th minute , but England striker Tina Cullen made the game safe . |
| 20 | A pair of bottles of wine will be awarded to each of the first 2,500 entrants whose names are drawn on 5.11.90 . |
| 21 | Terence believes that every hairdresser should have two pairs of scissors , if they are truly professional , and is offering a free pair to each of the first five orders received from Hairflair readers . |
| 22 | The HyperCard is based on the above outline of document preparation systems , with tutorials corresponding to each of the third level of headings ( e.g. the computer industry , publishing industry , hardware , software ) . |
| 23 | Ernst and Young has cut its annual graduate recruitment by 110 to 540 over the last two years but generally the big firms , some with workforces of over 7,000 , have been slow to react to the downturn . |
| 24 | A good victory was secured at Allander , winning by 4 goals to 2 in the first league match in November . |
| 25 | According to a study by Italy 's joint chiefs of staff , a manpower shortage may lead to the army being cut by up to half over the next 20 years . |
| 26 | The government meets three quarters of the costs of section eleven projects , but that 's being cut to half over the next two years . |
| 27 | After that there was no way back for City and Rangers now travel to Marine in the second round on December 5 . |
| 28 | Two months after the military crackdown in Beijing in June 1989 , it was announced that university student intake would be cut from 640,000 to 610,000 in the next academic year , and that " specialities mainly in the social science fields which the State has deemed for a long time to have turned out personnel not qualified for socialist construction " would be suspended . |
| 29 | One of Mr Thomas 's conditions , supported by Mrs Noble , was that Edward and Helen should not correspond when he left for Oxford , and they agreed to this for the first term . |
| 30 | For clearly , if ever he trusted to this in the first place , he had come without any weapon . ’ |