Example sentences of "the [adj] [num] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes the interest rates offered on those deposits , eliminates the top three and bottom three quotes , and takes the average of the remaining ten interest rates to give the settlement interest rate . |
| 2 | Then on the third page , some wards with very high rates of unemployment , I think they are the top twenty if memory serves me right . |
| 3 | Instead a terrible toll of the Crown Prince 's manpower would have been exacted by the French 75s and machine guns in their prepared emplacements , at relatively little cost to the defenders . |
| 4 | A new awareness of regional questions emerged in the early 1960s as land use pressures mounted : a substantial rise in numbers of both population and households was forecast ; the numbers of vehicles on the roads was rising fast ; countryside pressures on recreation sites was being felt ; and ( as an immediate problem ) the cities ran out of housing land within their boundaries . |
| 5 | Viewing increased more with new broadcasting hours , such as afternoon TV in the early 1970s and breakfast time in the early 1980s , than with more channels and programme choice or technical improvements such as colour ( colour licences overtook black and white in 1976 ) . |
| 6 | Ralph Metcalfe , that great sprinter of the early thirties and adversary of Jesse Owens , was not , I suspect , enamoured of being known as the ‘ Midnight Express ’ . |
| 7 | Brazil is now , however , heading for oil self-sufficiency in the early 1990s and output has tripled since 1979 . |
| 8 | Almost three quarters of married women are now looking for work , 21 per cent more than in the early 70s when mum 's prime concern was caring for her children . |
| 9 | This form of transport was available in Funchal until the early 1980s for tourist excursions in the centre of Funchal and near the Savoy and Sheraton Hotels . |
| 10 | And DUP man Willie Cully , jailed for 12 years in the early '70s for terrorist offences , was defeated after gaining 485 first preference votes . |
| 11 | The monumental Portland Building rose in the early 1950s and teaching and residential accommodation space grew rapidly in the 1960s and 70s to keep pace with the growing demand for university places . |
| 12 | Passenger services ceased in the early 1950s and freight services in 1981 . |
| 13 | If any readers know anything of the current whereabouts of Tin Tin , Milly Molly Mandy , Jennings and/or Derbyshire , Rupert Bear , any of the Famous Five or Secret Seven , Billy Bunter , My Naughty Little Sister ( presumably now in freelance tax-free employment round the back of King 's Cross ? ) or any of the many others , I 'd like to hear about it . |
| 14 | The Situationist lifestyle ( in so far as it could be imagined ) had some influence on the hippy sub-culture in the late sixties and punk ideology in the seventies in Britain . |
| 15 | RioFinex planned to examine the Mawddach estuary in North Wales in the late 1960s for placer gold derived from the Dolgellau gold deposits . |
| 16 | The play is set in the late Eighties when power dressing was at its peak — which explains the bold jackets , short hemlines and figure-hugging dresses . |
| 17 | The revival of interest in what can only be described as a strategy of import led growth began in the late 1950s as uneasiness over the optimistic , autarkic assumptions of the Khrushchev period increased . |
| 18 | Video cameras were used regularly in the late 1980s for crowd surveillance at soccer grounds , and as a method of enforcing post-match arrests ( Uglow , 1988:95 ) . |
| 19 | Thereafter , despite the high unemployment years between 1929 and 1932 , trade union membership remained remarkably resilient and recovered sharply during the improving trade situation of the late 1930s and trade unions were drawn more centrally into negotiation with national employers negotiations and with the National government . |
| 20 | IN THE LATE Fifties when news-gathering was still a soft-hat and trenchcoat job , Helen Mason became a reporter with the Daily Record . |
| 21 | They are Far Senior in the first in the twelve fifty and Panto Prince did not run in the Mackeson at two o'clock . |
| 22 | Formulated originally in the mid sixties for use in large commercial marine set-ups and improved over the years . |
| 23 | She walked off before he could answer and stayed very close to the other two until dinner was actually served . |
| 24 | Colin was based at Linlithgow for 10 years — the first eight as Assistant Manager and the final two as Manager — and although originally from Edinburgh , he and his wife Joy and their two sons , Martin and Douglas plan to stay in the town . |