Example sentences of "of [adj] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 The summer vacation of 1993 sees the first 10 Enterprise Studentships being awarded .
2 You should of all saw the last Synod papers received this .
3 As you can imagine there were a lot of champagne bottles opened that night , but perhaps the most pleasurable glass of all came the next morning from the bottle in Peter Wycherley 's office at the headquarters of Dunlop Slazenger who are my main sponsors .
4 The presidential election of 1952 saw the first large-scale hiring of skilled advertising men to do the politicians ' persuading for them .
5 Twelve hundred words a week , week in , week out , at a rate something in excess of £1 per word — well , not too bad a life , actually , would be the most likely response of those facing the 14th , 15th , 16th … years of Conservative rule in rather more straitened circumstances — if , of course , they were to read his column .
6 Hendry made a break of 54 to take the first frame , but lost the next to a run of 50 .
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