Example sentences of "of [art] [num ord] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | English , mathematics , a foreign language ( usually French ) , Latin ( often but not always ) , the sciences , history , geography , some art and crafts , but not too much , PE and games , the compulsory religious education : these were the invariable components of the first two or three years of a grammar-school education . |
| 2 | Moreover , quite often the third phrase repeats the melodic shape of the first two and frequently there are rifts — often of traditional or clichéd types — in the instrumental accompaniment . |
| 3 | A HUNDRED in your first innings of the season is sweet , and especially so if it 's your team 's third one-day match , and you 've been left out of the first two because you are not regarded as a one-day player . |
| 4 | The uncontrolled liberation of fusion energy has existed for 40 years , ever since the detonation of the first thermonuclear or ‘ hydrogen ’ bomb . |
| 5 | So if for instance you 're quite well off and you have two hundred thousand pounds in your own estate that you want to leave , if you make it all to the children there would be an exemption of the first hundred and fifty thousand pounds and there would be tax payable on the fifty thousand . |
| 6 | A left-right asymmetry in the latency of the first positive and second negative peaks was recorded which was not attributable to lateralised stimulus presentation per se . |
| 7 | A marvellous stylistic contrast to the intricacy and sophistication of these magnificent Court carpets can be seen in the delightful Marby rug — named after the Swedish village in whose church it was found — which is one of the few remaining examples of the first Anatolian or Caucasian rugs to be brought into the West . |
| 8 | This ‘ democratization ’ is , as Bernard reminds us , a relatively new trend of the last hundred or two hundred years , and one which contrasts with an earlier situation where marriage was ‘ … a kind of privilege , a prerogative , a gift bestowed by the community ’ ( Bernard , 1976 , p. 123 ) . |
| 9 | This stance is partly a reaction against what Krauss saw as a dominant position in American criticism , by which ‘ the art of the last hundred and thirty years , the art of modernism , is not being well served by writing that promotes the myths through which it can be consistently misread ’ . |
| 10 | He enjoyed considerable success ; in the first ten years of his rule Iran probably progressed more than in the entire Qajar period of the last hundred and twenty years . |
| 11 | Another difficulty of the last 11 or 12 years is that we have always faced west , towards the United States of America . |
| 12 | He has told the court that he has spent the best part of the last two and a half years preparing for this joust . |
| 13 | As a result calculation of the last two or three eigenvalues in unc may not be very accurate . |
| 14 | In the saddle Simon Goodman , the man who 's spent every waking hour of the last 2 and a half years creating a machine to recapture the excitement of classic British motorcycling . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've always assumed that the country has enough water but the shortages of the last three or four years have shown this is not the case , ’ said Dr Neil Johnston , author of the report . |
| 16 | Specific schemes differ in their elements : for some final salary may be the best of the last three or five years or the average , or may be based on earnings as opposed to salary . |
| 17 | Since an examination of the first of these is the purpose of the following chapters , and an examination of the third impossible because , as suggested , of lack of evidence , one need turn here only to an examination of the second class . |
| 18 | This could be a formidable task in a society where even widely travelled soldiers firmly believed that Thomas Cook 's wagon-lits were the spearheads of the Third International since the latter word could be read in Cyrillic on the side of carriages . |
| 19 | There in the course of the next hundred and fifty years rapid progress was made in classifying the properties of the variety of metals included in the group . |
| 20 | Whatever one 's interpretation of the events of the next two and a half months , there can be little doubt that they represent an improvised response rather than a matured plan . |
| 21 | Whatever one 's interpretation of the events of the next two and a half months , there can be little doubt that they represent an improvised response rather than a matured plan . |
| 22 | Jo refused to discuss the Oscars ; the whole idea was too exciting to bear serious thought , and besides she knew something about the events of the next three and a half hours that her mother did not , and would not until her name was called . |