Example sentences of "the [num] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intel Corp president Andy Grove told the annual meeting that the company 's chip business remains strong and that it is ready to fight new competitors in the market place , Reuter reports : ‘ Our response to all these competitors has been to concentrate on getting better and faster products into the hands of our customers , ’ Grove said , adding that Intel was meeting demand for the 80486 but dealer and customer inventories were tight ; capital spending this year is now likely to hit $1,800m , up from the previously planned $1,600m ; executive vice-president Craig Barrett said the next generation P6 microprocessor will probably be unveiled in late 1995 or early 1996 ; Intel holders also approved a two for one share split to take effect in June . |
| 2 | Opera was rejected in the 60s because modernism found its dependence on human emotions embarrassing and messy , and because it seemed politically inept — a medium housed in monuments to the establishment and inadequate for the expression of political ideologies . |
| 3 | The main problem lies in the amount of translation the software will have to do to read the 32 and 16-bit system calls both at the software and network level , Visionware said . |
| 4 | ‘ The estate was mortgaged up to the hilt in the thirties when farming was n't paying . |
| 5 | More seriously , he noted : ‘ From observations with one or two people I find that some of them are very scared of the 109s and morale could be better . |
| 6 | In the 1990 defence budget , however , an allocation of $1,100 million was agreed for the MX and Midgetman projects . |
| 7 | In a move reportedly designed to persuade the Soviet Union to abandon its rail-mounted mobile intercontinental missile system , the SS-24 , Bush said that the USA had given up plans to develop mobile versions of the MX and Midgetman missiles and that a programme to build the short-range attack missile ( SRAM ) had also been cancelled . |
| 8 | I have to assume you require EMS memory , which is why you have specified the 1024 and RAM options , otherwise if you use AUTO instead , you may get more UMBs to play with . |
| 9 | National Savings were particularly competitive in the 1980's when emphasis was placed on raising government funds from this source , largely because it relieved the need somewhat to borrow from the banking system which created credit and therefore inflationary conditions , and because of the fear that government borrowing in the long-term capital markets would tend to ‘ crowd-out ’ industrial and commercial companies from that market , and impede their ability to raise funds for capital investment and long-term growth . |
| 10 | Access will be the issue of the 90s and freedom to use rivers does n't just stop at getting onto the rivers . |
| 11 | The 90–34 and 90–34T are cheaper versions of the MX and TX tractors . |
| 12 | Radio in the 1940S and television under the Fifth Republic enabled de Gaulle to ‘ commune ’ with the French people : circumstances frequently conspired to dramatize the stark alternatives associated with his name ; in 1940 the rejection of collaboration and defeat ; from 1946 to 1958 , when out of power and largely absent from the radio , he slowly became ‘ le recours ’ , the possible saviour from the ‘ regime des parties ’ , party factions and divisions ; when President ( 1958–69 ) , and master of the airwaves , the recurrent implicit or explicit message was ‘ but for me , France faces chaos ’ — ‘ moi ou le chaos ’ — the twentieth-century equivalent of Louis XIV 's celebrated ‘ l'état c'est moi ’ — ‘ I am the state ’ . |
| 13 | The 1940s and war made seditious literature a vital concern ; the 1950s and anti-communism made left-wing literature seem so threatening ; the 1960s and permissiveness eventually caused us to think we could go too far with ‘ indecent ’ and ‘ obscene ’ books ; and the 1970s and 1980s and the move towards a more multicultural society and the assertiveness of nationality made us conscious of the damage of racist and religiously intolerant literature . |
| 14 | For this work she received two shillings and sixpence per week , quite a nice sum for the 1880's when farm workers were expected to bring up families on twelve shillings a week . |
| 15 | Bangkok was lowered by about 1.5 metres during the 1970's after groundwater beneath the city was pumped out . |
| 16 | This policy was later reversed in the 1970's when procurement was transferred to a department within the Ministry of Defence . |
| 17 | It also seems that the pressures have increased since the 1970s as manufacturing firms especially have reduced their labour force and no worker wants to be nominated for early retirement or transfer . |
| 18 | The failure of the Royal Commission 's own research to support their advocacy of large-scale units of local government led to scepticism in the 1970s as opinion swung away from a belief in bigness as a correlate of efficiency and progress . |
| 19 | Much the same was true of wife battering in England until Erin Pizzey and others exposed the phenomenon in the 1970s and legislation was introduced to combat it . |
| 20 | Their pessimism comes amid estimates that cereal production could reach almost 190m tonnes by the end of the '90s unless action is taken , warns the European Commission , following forecasts drawn up by officials in Brussels . |
| 21 | • Tom Matano , father of the MX-5 and head of Mazda 's Californian design studio , echoed the thoughts of many when he said of Citroen 's Activa II : ‘ That 's what the BMW 850i should have looked like . ’ |
| 22 | From January until July 1992 , whilst the debt campaign is running down and before the 1992 and Trade campaign is under way , there will be some emphasis on the environment . |
| 23 | To do that you must use a variety of clubs for chipping , from the sand wedge to the 5 or 4-iron . |
| 24 | Harry Thompson 's Carry On Up The 55s ( Radio 4 , Wednesdays ) finished this week with a look at the Fifties and sex . |
| 25 | Thalidomide , the drug prescribed in the Fifties for morning sickness , is the most infamous example . |
| 26 | If that sounds nauseatingly juvenile , it had a certain aptness in the Fifties when marriage was for many an institution for recreating one 's childhood and centering life once more on the nursery . |
| 27 | However traffic conditions were changing in the Fifties as car ownership increased , both reducing passengers and increasing road traffic at the same time . |
| 28 | This hypothesis can be tested by crossing variously altered TCR- β transgenes into the RAG-1 or TCR- β mutant mice . |
| 29 | And I sort of started to get itchy feet to come back and do things in the early eighties and that 's when I went to Liverpool , I did a play with , I did Alfie with Alan who just directed the Commitments and er we went to a b and that really got me fired up to start again , and I sort of did some theatre stuff through the bits and pieces through the eighties until Love Hurts came . |
| 30 | There is more to the YF-22 than stealth . |