Example sentences of "the [num] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half of the 4,650 strikes in 1937 ( involving two million workers ) were over union recognition . |
| 2 | The 74 species of African antelope share certain basic features : all are exclusively vegetarian and bear one large and precocious calf each year . |
| 3 | Given the 74 years of Communist dictatorship and the long period of Tsarist dictatorship before that , is it not essential to provide aid and assistance so that at long last Russia and the countries associated with the former Soviet Union can become stable democracies ? |
| 4 | With the restrictions firms accepted , industrial sales grew very slowly and , after falling in the later years of the War , did not again reach the 1943 level until 1949 . |
| 5 | The shortages were partly the result of reduced capacity at two main refineries which helped process the 1,700,000 barrels of crude oil produced per day . |
| 6 | Among his earliest recorded works were the illustrations to the catalogue of the objects shown at the 1850 exhibition of ancient and medieval art at the Society of Arts . |
| 7 | The 1971 characteristics of elderly people who by 1981 had moved into institutions or to live with younger relatives will be compared with the characteristics of those remaining in their own homes . |
| 8 | Rebecca Murphy won the under-15 girls with 5.28 metres and Jan Irving the under-17 boys with 6.80 metres . |
| 9 | In conclusion , it was agreed that we ought not view social security legislation in isolation , but should consider the effects on the unemployed of this legislation and other legislation introduced during the eleven years of Tory government , such as housing , health , education . |
| 10 | The 25,572 crowd at Ayresome Park on Wednesday night fell just short of capacity when Manchester returned around 400 tickets . |
| 11 | A glimpse of the impact of the 1980–1 riots at this level can be achieved through two important debates in Parliament . |
| 12 | For those with jobs , salaries remained at the 1980 level until 1985 , while inflation rose . |
| 13 | The UK is committed to reducing sulphur dioxide emissions to 60% of the 1980 level by 2003 . |
| 14 | The announcement in the Medium Term Financial Strategy ( MTFS ) in the 1980 budget of monetary targets — which would fall year by year ( see Table 8.3 ) — was also regarded as a means of lowering the expectations of wage bargainers . |
| 15 | At the end of 1990 , after controversy over the census , the Census Bureau claimed that the total population of the USA was 249,632,692 — an increase of more than 23,000,000 ( 10.2 per cent ) over the 1980 figure of 226,545,805 . |
| 16 | 1 MARIO was the 1980 brainchild of Japanese computer genius Shigeru Miyamoto but originally had only a walk-on part in the game Donkey Kong . |
| 17 | It was anticipated that the final 1990 homicide rate for the country as a whole would exceed the 1980 record of 23,040 murders . |
| 18 | Among the eight reforms in that day 's referendum , one to cancel Mussolini 's transfer of appointment power was approved by 90% of the voters . |
| 19 | Use of the library resource centre means that the children would have immediate access to a much larger collection than can normally be gathered in a series of project or topic boxes , of the kind that were to be gathered for the use of the eight groups in this example . |
| 20 | Pierre Chambon ( Institut de Chimie Biologique , Strasbourg ) described an ambitious set of experiments aimed at elucidating their role by knocking out each of the eight isoforms in separate lines of transgenic mice . |
| 21 | Frejji is a big , bulk exter , very humanoid aside from her glossy dark-purple fur and the eight fingers on each hand . |
| 22 | Top each of the eight rounds with one teaspoon of tomato with pesto sauce , 25g/1oz sliced mozzarella , two slices of tomato and ¼ teaspoon shredded fresh basil . |
| 23 | My understanding is that he will try to find half-a-dozen wood processing / wood craft companies whose adverts would feature within the eight pages of editorial to be supplied by COED CYMRU . |
| 24 | After the Great War against Chaos Magnus the Pious lifted the ancient laws against the practice of wizardry and founded the eight Colleges of Magic in Altdorf . |
| 25 | Next , we stack up the eight sets of five columns ( period/output/ res price/ σ/k); on top of each other to form a data matrix five columns wide and 64 rows long . |
| 26 | The BOSS 90 cuts the eight slots to three — one router and two hub boards . |
| 27 | Only sixteen Unionist MPs were baronets ( less than the number of Liberals , a testament to the eight years of Liberal government ) , and these were the owners of new wealth rather than old titles . |
| 28 | ‘ There is no precedent in living memory for the eight years of sustained growth and surging prosperity that Britain has enjoyed with this Conservative government . |
| 29 | In the pre-First World War days of two divisions , the top limit of transfer fees rose in the eight years from 1905 to 1913 from £1,000 to £2,500 , an increase of 150 per cent ; in the first eight years of three divisions ( 1920–28 ) they went up from £3,300 to £10,890 , an increase of roughly 230 per cent . |
| 30 | The eight children from that one family , taken from Orkney in November 1990 , remained in care somewhere on the Scottish mainland . |