Example sentences of "in [num] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She married in 1869 but her husband Dr William Hicks Bryant died the next year . |
| 2 | Arthur Young noted of one in Sheffield in 1771 that its employees were chiefly women and children , with the former earning 5-6s ( 25-30p ) a week , five times the earnings of the latter.60 |
| 3 | The two innermost trees were cut down in 1771 as they were considered to be impoverishing the soil and shading the flowers in the Garden , but the others stood guard by the watergate for another hundred years and no doubt caused interested comment from river travellers . |
| 4 | Until this century there were more than 500 languages in New Guinea , murderous xenophobia between adjoining tribes , and 50,000 people in its Central Valley who learned only in 1934 that there was an outside world . |
| 5 | The rapid mushrooming of activity in 1934 and its equally spectacular decline led the Security Service to re-evaluate the development of the BUF . |
| 6 | Even without tolls , country roads are likely to be three times as busy in 2025 as they are today . |
| 7 | The plan was essentially that first worked out in 1756 but it had now been elaborated and refined . |
| 8 | Set back , uncared for amongst bracken at the edge of an arable field , was a short-armed Iona cross , a monument to ‘ Waverley Arthur Cameron of the Oban Times ’ drowned in 1891 whilst his sailing boat foundered off the coast — erected by his sorrowing father . |
| 9 | But it was only when Susato began to publish at Antwerp in 1543 that their songs appeared in quantity and it was Susato who really launched Crecquillon with a book of 36 chansons à 4 parties in 1543 , though he had published Crecquillon 's greatest hit , ‘ Ung gay bergier ’ , in a miscellaneous collection the year before . |
| 10 | Copernicus 's astronomy was bold in 1543 because it clashed with the background assumption that the earth is stationery at the centre of the universe . |
| 11 | One in four smokers dies prematurely : of these , one in ten will die of lung cancer and more than one in eight if they smoke over 25 cigarettes a day . |
| 12 | One in four smokers dies prematurely : of these , one in ten will die of lung cancer , more than one in eight if they smoke over 25 cigarettes a day . |
| 13 | Chelsea manager Ian Porterfield was just as happy saying : ‘ It 's now seven wins in eight and I want the lads to believe in themselves . |
| 14 | Muggers went around in threes when she was out . |
| 15 | After the series in Australia , Mike Brearley announced that he would not be able to tour in 1980–1 as he wanted to continue his studies in psychoanalysis , and the England selectors decided to appoint a new captain for the start of the 1980 rubber . |
| 16 | Another time in the same club he turned to me and said , ‘ The fellow on my other side went up the Irrawaddy in 1943 and he 's been taking me back there with him . |
| 17 | Sibton displays Parker 's Roman cement , which was patented in 1796 and which Nash used on most of his buildings . |
| 18 | I failed my school cert in French way back in 1948 so it was a question of starting out all over again . |
| 19 | The law is so rigorous and so thorough that it would be difficult to misunderstand the import of the statutory legislation which governs the property of the Palestinian Arabs who fled their homes in 1948 and who — by the same law — can not return . |
| 20 | He first visited Sicily while he was still an undergraduate , and it was on a second visit to the island in 1808–9 that he wrote the first of his many privately published books , a translation of Cicero 's The Last Two Pleadings … against Caius Verres ( 1812 ) . |
| 21 | Churches which escaped are likely to have paid for the privilege : the raiders had threatened to destroy Christ Church in 994 unless they were given a sum promised them by Archbishop Sigeric . |
| 22 | The Chinese even suggested to Kissinger during the years of backdoor diplomacy before Nixon 's visit to Peking in 1971 that his channel to Peking via Bucharest was far from secure : Ceauşescu kept Brezhnev informed . |
| 23 | Hay & Maddock note that in the United Kingdom there is no statutory obligation to notify theses to any central body , and Urquhart said in 1971 that it was often more difficult to obtain sight of a British doctoral thesis than it would be to obtain copies of theses emanating from European and North American Universities . |
| 24 | In Hebron Sheikh Ja'bari established a Centre for Islamic Studies ( later , Hebron University ) in 1971 but his motive was less religious than political . |
| 25 | The ‘ unfortunate disturbances ’ are the breakup of the Bretton Woods system and the commodities boom , while the ‘ errors in economic policy ’ refer primarily to the ‘ all systems go ’ monetary policy which so many countries adopted in 1971 and which ‘ was the most important mishap in recent economic policy history ’ ( McCracken , 1977 , p. 51 ) . |
| 26 | I became chief executive in 1971 and I then became responsible for the implementation of the plan . |
| 27 | He received the Dale medal in 1971 and his publications included chapters in more than twenty texts , and over 100 original papers in scientific periodicals . |
| 28 | He married hometown girl Vera in 1971 and she has borne him five children , including twins . |
| 29 | Cecil 's first winner for Lord Howard de Walden was Beninta in 1971 and there must be now genuine hopes that Pursuit of Love can succeed where the owner 's Kris failed narrowly behind Tap On Wood in 1979 Guineas . |
| 30 | Through his own efforts , he got together a group of people interested in the spiritual care of the blind as well as the deaf and formed the Leeds United Institution for the Blind , the Deaf and the Dumb in 1850 although it was not until 1875 that the foundation stone of their first centre was laid . |