Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [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 | Colonic transit was similarly assessed with the four colonic segments and effluent as the fifth segment . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | At Birkbeck , Joyce passed the intermediate examination for his BA and then read English language and literature for the second part of his degree . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This demonstration shows how railways have improved communications between the signalman and driver over the last eighty years . |
| 10 | Enjoy the wit and ingenuity of the 20th century automata . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Averment that everything necessary happened to entitle the plaintiff to have the said testator pay to him eighteen of the yearly sums of £150 and that the time therefore elapsed after he had married Ellen Nicholl and during the testator 's lifetime and that plaintiffs annual income from his profession as a Chancery barrister never amounted to 600 guineas ; that the testator paid 12 of the 18 annual sums and part of the thirteenth but that the residue of that and the 5 subsequent instalments were due and unpaid . |
| 16 | I felt rather lonely during my first year and part of the second . |
| 17 | The ( US ) Secretary of Health , Education and Welfare announced in 1978 that for the remainder of this century and part of the next , 17 per cent of all US cancer deaths ( over 50,000 per year ) would be attributable to asbestos . ’ |
| 18 | The last week in August 1939 saw the 1st Bucks Battalion , still members of the 145th Infantry Brigade and part of the 48th Division , just returned from the annual camp at Lavant , near Chichester . |
| 19 | Nose-thumbing and impolite , chaotic and renegade to the last , it explains exactly why the Poppies are n't as big as Nirvana . |
| 20 | DEC also announced NAS support for Sun and NAS Advantage — a higher level of conformance with DEC 's Network Application Support architecture , with SAS and Progress as the first applications to win the brand-level . |
| 21 | I was turned around and frog-marched to the last flight of stairs leading to the foyer , then thrown down the last six steps . |
| 22 | In 1882 he married Laura Julia , daughter of Baron Hermann de Stern and his wife Julia Goldsmid , and sister of the first Baron Michelham . |
| 23 | , Robert Henry ( 1833–1916 ) , meteorologist , was born in Dublin 28 January 1833 , one of five sons and a daughter of James Smyth Scott , QC , a prominent Dublin lawyer , and his wife Louisa , daughter of Charles Brodrick , archbishop of Cashel , and sister of the sixth and seventh viscounts Midleton . |
| 24 | The government 's overall aim was to freeze spending on state-owned enterprises , social security and defence for the next four years . |
| 25 | None the less the sheer ability and enthusiasm of the first generation established the value of the MRO and the important contribution he or she could bring to teachers and schools , both primary and secondary . |
| 26 | The dances of the Concerti da camera ( Nos. 9–12 ) are engagingly portrayed , as you will quickly find in the Allemande and Corrente of the Ninth Concerto , for example , and there are some pleasing arabesques from the plucked string continuo . |
| 27 | Instead they have imaginatively reconstructed the imaginary town 's historical development over eight centuries : from the time that the first stone buildings would have been erected , through the period of canal-building and land-reclamation in the seventeenth century , to the twentieth century with its emphasis on the development of ‘ a comfortable urbanity ’ , exemplified by turn-of-the-century villas . |
| 28 | By the early part of the last century two kinds of hospital had emerged that set the pattern for finance and provision for the next 150 years ( Abel-Smith , 1964 ) . |
| 29 | [ H. O. White , ‘ Thomas Purney : Forgotten Poet and Critic of the Eighteenth Century ’ , Essays and Studies , vol. xv , 1929 ; H. O. White ( ed . ) , |
| 30 | We prove it to them by demonstrating that the money we need for research and investment over the next few years is in place . |