Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [adj] there " in BNC.
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| 1 | In March 1991 there were 267 vacancies available . |
| 2 | Latterly , however , the Khomeini regime began to describe the USSR as the ‘ greater Satan ’ ; cultural exchanges were ended , the size of the Soviet mission was restricted , Soviet journalists were refused entry visas , and in March 1988 there was an attack upon the Soviet embassy in Tehran . |
| 3 | In an address to students at the University of Santiago on Oct. 15 , President Patricio Aylwin Azócar stated that when he assumed the presidency in March 1990 there had been a total of 380 political prisoners still detained from the 1973-1990 military regime ; all but 83 had already been released , he said , and the rest would be freed by the end of the year . |
| 4 | In March 1990 there was a wholesale dismissal of those Cabinet Ministers responsible for the economy [ see p. 37319 ] . |
| 5 | In February 1963 there were already 180 groups worldwide . |
| 6 | In February 1983 there were about 3200 casualties , of which more than 33 were fatal . |
| 7 | Following Iraq 's defeat in February 1991 there was intensified diplomatic activity by the EC , UN and United States on the Cyprus problem . |
| 8 | In February 1970 there was a spectacular accident at Manton just east of Worksop when an empty MGR train became partially derailed and was struck by a Gainsborough-Ellesmere oil train headed by class 47 No . |
| 9 | In February 1982 there were 3223 casualties , of which 31 were fatal . |
| 10 | In December 1991 there were 112,000 unemployed . |
| 11 | In December 1941 there were risks of Allied ships being bombed now that the Germans had improved their Norwegian airfields . |
| 12 | At the time of the second Rome summit in December 1990 there was saturation coverage in Britain of John Major 's first appearance at a European summit as Prime Minister . |
| 13 | From Pokrovsk railway lines ran in three directions through famine areas , but in January 1922 there were only one locomotive in the yards , and that took up to seventeen days to cover less than 150 miles . |
| 14 | In January 1991 there were reports that the Japanese government was prepared to discuss opening its rice market to foreign imports , the source of one of the most bitter and protracted of trade disputes with the USA . |
| 15 | In January 1991 there were sightings reported off Dubai and — as in 1983 — off Qatar , while at Safaniyah in the Saudi offshore oilfield one of them struck a well platform . |
| 16 | The prison in Matagalpa had been built to hold a maximum of 600 , and in January 1989 there were 530 occupants . |
| 17 | In January 1979 there were 18.9 pupil per teacher in maintained nursery , primary and secondary schools in England . |
| 18 | In January 1871 there were 166,407 female out-door paupers in England and Wales ; in January 1891 only 53,371 , despite the fact that the policy was pursued less vigorously in the 1880s than in the preceding decade . |
| 19 | The Lords entered the fray in December with a strong preference for PR as a means of keeping both the Labour party and the Commons in check , so that in January 1918 there were disputes between the two houses as well as between and within the parties . |
| 20 | According to figures released in January 1990 there were 1,040,325 foreign residents in the country in 1989 , making up 15.6 per cent of the population . |
| 21 | The troubles in Kent dragged on sporadically for some two years ; in August 1450 a certain William Parmenter virtually proclaimed himself Cade 's successor by calling himself the second captain of Kent , in April 1451 there were troubles fomented by Henry Hasilden , and in May 1452 there was yet further disorder ( 42 ) . |
| 22 | In May 1985 there was talk of NITC fixing another ULCC for Sirri storage at a rate slightly over $8,000/day . |
| 23 | We were invited to stay with friends living in Northern Burgundy , and to visit a painting school at La Buia , in Umbria , with the idea that I might take a class there in May 1993. there was some discussion , earlier in the year , of another in Venice , and we will break our journey there , for breakfast , next week . |
| 24 | In July 1916 there had been 978,112 state pensioners ; by 1924 there were 916,771 , over 61,000 fewer . |
| 25 | In July 1989 there were further disturbances in Abkhazia over plans to open a section of Tbilisi University in the Abkhazian capital Sukhumi . |
| 26 | In July 1991 there were official disputes at 49 prisons in England and Wales . |
| 27 | In July 1990 there had been tension with Turkey as Greece contemplated extending its territorial waters from six to 12 miles . |
| 28 | Since the start of the political reform process in Bulgaria in November 1989 there had been a rash of strikes in many sectors of the economy against low pay , poor working conditions and unpopular or incompetent management . |
| 29 | In November 1938 there was trouble over the installation of several Polish postboxes in Danzig . |
| 30 | The Chancellor 's appointment of non-party men to Cabinet posts caused resentment in the CDU and in November 1988 there was another embarrassing resignation , by the President of the Bundestag , Philipp Jenninger , who made a speech on the fortieth anniversary of Kristallnacht ( the Nazi 's anti-Jewish pogrom ) which some took to be sympathetic to Nazism . |