Example sentences of "and [noun] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The raid on Culquha Farm , Ringford , near Castle Douglas , brings to more than £30,000 the value of sheep , cattle and horses stolen in Dumfries and Galloway over the last 12 months . |
| 2 | Jeremy Taylor 's The Rule and Exercise of Holy Dying ( 1651 ) continued to be a well-loved book of solace and meditation throughout the nineteenth century ; seven editions were published by Pickerings , and Rivingtons brought out a new edition as late as 1889 . |
| 3 | IC received a report of its cosponsored conference held in Sri Lanka in May , and noted developments towards other meetings to be held in Egypt , India and Botswana over the next 12 months . |
| 4 | Colonic transit was similarly assessed with the four colonic segments and effluent as the fifth segment . |
| 5 | There are underprivileged individuals and groups in the First World , as well as in the Third and Second Worlds . |
| 6 | The traditions and attitudes of the seventeenth century were also continued in the importance attached , particularly in the first half of this period , to questions of diplomatic precedence . |
| 7 | Oxford and Swindon in the first clash of '93 . |
| 8 | And erm one of the girls that was on there became a very very famous soprano in the country , erm Connie Shackelock you 've probably not heard of her , she 's sort of a bit before your time but er she always used to sing Land of Hope and Glory on the last night of the Proms a few years ago . |
| 9 | But what the District continued to seek was the 90% grant which the WEA 's national negotiators had raised unsuccessfully with the Ministry in 1954 and early 1955 : this goal became a recurrent theme of District meetings and literature through the second half of the decade . |
| 10 | At Birkbeck , Joyce passed the intermediate examination for his BA and then read English language and literature for the second part of his degree . |
| 11 | The second and third years include units on the Irish Language , Modern Irish Literature , Irish Language and Literature of the 18th and 19th Centuries , Classical Irish and the Irish of the 17th Century , Irish History and Aspects of Local Studies . |
| 12 | Yet fifty years after Ramsey 's book a good judge of religious thought and literature during the twentieth century declared it to be an enduring masterpiece , which pointed forward to the road which Anglicans and not only Anglicans would follow . |
| 13 | This demonstration shows how railways have improved communications between the signalman and driver over the last eighty years . |
| 14 | Enjoy the wit and ingenuity of the 20th century automata . |
| 15 | This will be £5,000 per annum initially for three years reducing to £3,000 and £1,000 in the fourth and fifth years respectively . |
| 16 | For the first in the series , seventy paintings from the Museum of Modern Art in New York have been loaned to form a survey of the key movements and artists of the twentieth century . |
| 17 | For a thousand years there has been a manor on this site , which belonged to Hesdins , Wriothosleys , Badds and Worgans until the nineteenth century . |
| 18 | Then capping it all is a ceiling of absolute if intricate formality , a prelude and preparation to the first floor rooms that were never to be worked . |
| 19 | The general value of practical placements and projects during the first degree stage is becoming more widely recognized . |
| 20 | They are , in short , symbols of eminence and are normally granted only to peers and knights of the first class of the orders of chivalry — although some baronets also have armorial supporters . |
| 21 | The parquet of the floors alternates with stone and the colours of the walls were chosen after innumerable trials : mostly pale grey and tobacco brown , with pale green for the Neo-classical works and terracotta for the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | A cheerful Durie confirmed : ‘ Things have been going well for me and Spurs in the last few weeks . |
| 23 | Other spellings — Kyese , Keise , Keese — are known to have been recorded in the shires of Gloucester , Worcester and Hereford during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , but today only the style Keyse is found in that area , and Kease appears nowhere except in the author 's own ancestral bloodline . |
| 24 | At the Restoration his ex-church and ex-crown lands and those belonging to the Butler ( Ormonde ) family in Ireland were all forfeit , but he managed to retain other Irish interests , through the friendship and protection of the first Baron Kingston , who as Sir John King [ q.v. ] had been a Cromwellian until 1659 . |
| 25 | The clouds have dropped down over the mountain so that the evangelicals and charismatics on the first contour above the town have vanished into the mist . |
| 26 | It will include access ramps for the disabled , new heating , fire alarm and fire detection systems and toilets on the first floor . |
| 27 | Yet , as the British returned to Menorca as holiday-makers and emigrants during the 20th century , cricket returned with them . |
| 28 | The Services themselves are living organisms that , like the human beings of which they are composed , develop slowly , each generation handing on its accumulated wisdom and experience to the next . |
| 29 | In return , the Edinburgh branch of the STA was to maintain peace on all questions of wages and hours for the next three years . |
| 30 | The result is an instrument that comes as close as is possible in the late 20th century to making the sounds the composers and musicians of the 16th century expected to hear . |