Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] the us " in BNC.
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| 1 | Customs sources claimed that the alleged ring laundered some £19 million in drug profits for Colombia 's Madellin Cartel , believed to be responsible for nearly eight per cent of the cocaine smuggled into the US . |
| 2 | The US decision came after the US Food And Drug Administration considered links between the use of implants and the incidence of cancer and auto-immune diseases . |
| 3 | The failure happened as the US |
| 4 | Already characterized by the victory of democracy over authoritarianism in Latin America , this new age would , he said , be bolstered by a new economic partnership linking both hemispheres in a free-trade zone stretching from Alaska to Cape Horn , a concept expounded in the US Enterprise for the Americas Initiative launched by Bush in June 1990 [ see p. 37526 ] . |
| 5 | During the Fifties , output per person grew in the US by 2.4 per cent a year . |
| 6 | This was because of a cosmological theory that was then very popular — the Steady State Theory propounded by the US scientist Thomas Gold and the UK scientists Hermann Bondi and Fred Hoyle . |
| 7 | I do n't know why its spelt that way either , perhaps the typist slipped at the US Patent Office ! |
| 8 | Second , the concept was aired of a ‘ rapid deployment force ’ ( RDF ) , which might be brought into play in the Gulf as in any other theatre in which an emergency erupted outside the US . |
| 9 | Arens 's visit coincided with the US State Department 's postponement of a session of a joint committee which co-ordinated the disbursement of US military aid to Israel , although the State Department denied that the intention was to indicate US dissatisfaction over Israeli policies . |