Example sentences of "in [num] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Even without tolls , country roads are likely to be three times as busy in 2025 as they are today . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Muggers went around in threes when she was out . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I failed my school cert in French way back in 1948 so it was a question of starting out all over again . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They had a son Cameron , 11 , but finally parted in 1986 after she accused him of giving her black eyes . |
| 12 | A special case conference was held in 1986 because he was not thriving as he should have done . |
| 13 | Hardly had he returned to Malaya in 1935 than he was again on the upward ladder : in 1937 in the conventional testing ground of an African secretariat , Lagos , followed in 1939 by promotion to the difficult post of chief secretary of troubled Palestine . |
| 14 | Built on the banks of the Tyne and opened in 1873 , it had been extended in 1893 until it stood three storeys high , 609 ft. long and 330 ft. wide . |
| 15 | The couple have remained close friends ever since he taught Diana and her sons to ride in 1980 while he was stationed at Combermere Barracks in Windsor . |
| 16 | At another , we are still getting there , and the man whose bomb explodes at Bologna railway station one summer day in 1980 while I am pulling this page into shape falls straight back inside The Possessed . |
| 17 | Trade unions were in fact in a much stronger position in 1933 than they had been in 1921 or 1922 . |
| 18 | Money poured in and work began in 1493 although it was to be a century before the work was completed ; this timescale explains the stylistic variation of the church , with elements of both Renaissance and Baroque architecture . |
| 19 | Vladimir Ulyanov — who chose to use the name of ‘ Lenin'-had been exiled to Siberia in 1895 after he had founded a Union for the liberation of the working classes . |
| 20 | In the 1993 edition of its US Industrial Outlook , the Commerce Department in Washington is predicting that book sales will grow at a faster rate in 1993 than they did in 1992 , says BP Report . |
| 21 | If we work as well together in 1993 as we did in ‘ 92 Pest Control and the people in it will continue to prosper and this coming year will be another success story . |
| 22 | Of course people do not become frenzied quite as readily in 1993 as they did in 1919 , but with the assistance of one of Edinburgh 's premiere restaurants , The Witchery , The Scotsman and the House of Sandeman have devised an evening which should enthuse even the most jaded citizen . |
| 23 | Garry Cornes , 26 , a haemophiliac , was diagnosed as HIV positive in 1985 after he was given infected blood products . |
| 24 | IF CORPORATE governance and the virtues or vices of free financial markets had been agonised over as much in 1985 as they are now , continental Europe would have ruined many of the most popular and simplistic conclusions . |
| 25 | But whether his artistic life was , as a few think , exemplary , or , as rather more think , a fearsomely cautionary fable , it is at all events a matter of some solemnity , and the amused weariness of we-have-heard-it-all-before will not serve in 1985 as it did in 1920 or 1940 or even , scandalously , as late as fifteen years ago . |
| 26 | After finishing second in the World Championship in 1983 and 1984 , Alain Prost lose the " nearly man " tag in 1985 as he became the first Frenchman to win the title . |
| 27 | Natch , the early ones look fuzzy and stilted now , but Doctor One , William Hartnell , left in '66 because he thought it was too evil for kids ! |
| 28 | The obligations of stateless organization , the solemn ceremonies of making peaces , perhaps worked better in 1979 than they ever did in the stateless age . |
| 29 | A recent parliamentary answer that drew on the Government 's own resources revealed that the Royal Navy was more modern in 1979 than it is in 1991 . |
| 30 | If we compare our rates with the best , they were double those of the Netherlands in 1979 as we have seen , and by 1985 had worsened to two and one half times the Dutch rates . |