Example sentences of "in [num] [pers pn] [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1875 he gave four lectures on his discoveries at the Royal Institution , and 1877 saw the publication of his book , Discoveries at Ephesus ; a second book , Discoveries on the Site of Ancient Ephesus , published posthumously in 1890 , added little to the earlier work . |
| 2 | In 1736 he received two commissions from Graham : the construction of a nine-feet zenith sector ( the arc of which Graham divided himself ) for the French Académie des Sciences expedition to Lapland under Pierre de Maupertuis to measure the length of a degree of the meridian ; and preparing brass rods and scales for the Royal Society and the Académie for new standards to show the relation between the English yard and the French half-toise . |
| 3 | In 1838 they had 38 hand looms in use , as well as two power versions . |
| 4 | After retiring in 1971 he spent two very enjoyable years in an advisory position to the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur . |
| 5 | In 1986 it employed 670 people and shipped around US $500 million of systems . |
| 6 | In 1986 he bagged 118 first-class victims at 18 apiece and , as long as he can maintain a fair degree of fitness this season , a second 100-wicket tally looks very much on the cards . |
| 7 | When Everton 's title aspirations exploded at Oxford in 1986 he blamed two misses on a new pair of boots , switching back to his worn favourites and slamming a hat-trick past Southampton ! |
| 8 | In introducing a workshop on ‘ modularity and credit accumulation ’ in 1986 he identified two broad phases : |
| 9 | In 1886 it published two stout volumes by Edmund Gurney , Frederic Myers and Frank Podmore on Phantasms of the Living . |
| 10 | In 1799 he spent two days in what he called ‘ proud Gallio-like Portadown ’ . |
| 11 | ( In 1980 it averaged 28 per cent of family income . ) |
| 12 | Its original membership only included those hiring tools and equipment , but in 1980 it created two new divisions which allowed companies hiring catering and audio visual equipment to join . |
| 13 | After Thebes swallowed up Plataia in 427 she controlled four Boiotarchs and 240 councillors . |
| 14 | In 1903 he sold four sets of kites to the Admiralty ; in 1905 the army ordered kites , and engaged Cody to instruct the Royal Engineers in their operation . |
| 15 | In 1987-88 they received 7 per cent and in 1988-89 , 8.9 per cent ( or the rate of inflation plus 2.5 per cent ) . |
| 16 | On his death in 1985 he left two gold watches to his sons . |
| 17 | Yet , after becoming dean of York in 1406 he did one more reshuffle of his holdings , then never changed them again . |
| 18 | In 1828 he began five years as an apprentice apothecary with the Apothecaries ' Company of London . |
| 19 | In 1969 he scored four in an FA Cup game against Crystal Palace . |
| 20 | Then , setting up in practice on his own c .1806 , he was employed at Heaton Hall , Lancashire , where both James and Samuel had worked previously ; and on Samuel 's death in 1807 he completed two of his commissions , Tatton Park , Cheshire , and Hackwood Park , Hampshire , and in effect succeeded to his practice in the Cheshire area . |
| 21 | In 1990/1 it contributed 27 per cent of all tax receipts — not more , it is important to note . |
| 22 | His friendship with Byron fired his own literary ambitions and after returning to London in 1812 he published two volumes on his travels . |
| 23 | Sir Robert Morier , perhaps the most successful British diplomat of the later nineteenth century , was partly French : in 1870 he had six cousins fighting in the French army . |
| 24 | He was greatly saddened by the death of his only son in action at Ypres , and in 1917 he published two poems in The Times , ‘ Bond and Free ’ and ‘ Wooden Crosses ’ , which aroused wide interest . |
| 25 | In 1921 he scored 212 not out for the Ridley College XI against Hamilton CC to establish a schoolboy batting record for Canadian cricket which stands to this day . |
| 26 | The entire cycle of wealth and waste , consumption and status buying , accompanied by the deep roar of the capitalist engine turning over ever faster , needed a name by which to handle its concepts and in 1957 it got one . |
| 27 | Galileo was one of the first to observe Jupiter through a telescope , and in 1610 he discovered four satellites which we now call the Galilean satellites . |
| 28 | Operating from one room above Bishopsgate Fire Station from 1968 , by the time Silverman sold out in 1976 it occupied five floors in High Holborn , employed nearly 100 staff and was earning nearly £1m. annually . |
| 29 | In the wake of Hillier 's retirement in 1882 , he was appointed assistant inspector-general and in 1884 he became one of the country 's four new divisional magistrates , with his headquarters in Athlone . |
| 30 | After his retirement as secretary of the English Association in 1950 he spent four years in India , encouraging the growth of youth hostels in that country , and subsequently paid two extended visits to Africa for the same purpose . |