Example sentences of "in [num] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brigadier Lorne Campbell of Airds , who was awarded the Victoria Cross in Tunisia in 1943 while a lieutenant-colonel in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders , died in May 1991 aged 88 . |
| 2 | He was imprisoned three times for his activities , serving 12 years of a 15-year sentence on terrorism charges before being released in November 1988 on health grounds [ see p. 36913 ] ; he was elected PAC president in 1986 while a prisoner [ see p. 35365 ] . |
| 3 | This changed in 1980 after a major died in one of two shooting attacks against soldiers . |
| 4 | The winning of " possession " in 1985 after a long struggle in the courts will prove to have been a shallow victory if the protection attaches [ sic ] to this status is to be further undermined , leaving absolute control once again in the hands of the " greater possessors " , the owners . |
| 5 | But , at the same time , the North West saw the largest population slump , with more than 80,000 fewer people living there in 1991 than a decade earlier . |
| 6 | But at the same time the north-west saw the largest population slump with more than 80,000 fewer people living there in 1991 than a decade earlier . |
| 7 | the LEA offered no grant-aid in support of the four WEA Terminal courses Jacques arranged in 1936–37 although a grant of £40 was promised for 1937–38 . |
| 8 | After a decline in interest in the mid-1970s the series was suspended in 1975 while a new formula was developed . |
| 9 | I believe Trade Unions recognised that there was more to the Bank Dispute in 1992 than a mere Salary Issue . |
| 10 | The highlight of this sale of Victorian pictures , drawings and watercolours is undoubtedly ‘ Contradiction : Oberon and Titania ’ painted by Richard Dadd in 1854–1858 while a patient at Bethlem Hospital . |
| 11 | The Supreme Constitutional Court judged on May 19 that the People 's Assembly had been unconstitutionally elected in 1987 because a 1986 amendment to the 1972 electoral law had unfairly discriminated against independent candidates . |
| 12 | A very early one is by Donald Munro , Dean of the Isles , who travelled through them and in 1594 published a " Description of the Western Isles " which is almost literally just that , with a full list of the small islands round the coast , but an edition by R. W. Munro in 1961 after a further manuscript had been found gives a description of Finlaggan , a photograph not previously published and a list of those who constituted the council of the Lords of the Isles . |
| 13 | A very early one is by Donald Munro , Dean of the Isles , who travelled through them and in 1594 published a " Description of the Western Isles " which is almost literally just that , with a full list of the small islands round the coast , but an edition by R. W. Munro in 1961 after a further manuscript had been found gives a description of Finlaggan , a photograph not previously published and a list of those who constituted the council of the Lords of the Isles . |
| 14 | Always a sickly woman , she expected to die in 1855 after a doctor had pronounced a disease of the heart to be fatal and quickly wrote her autobiography . |
| 15 | When asked in 1890 if a country like Russia should not have an independent Ministry of Agriculture , Vyshnegradsky was responsible for another bon mot : ‘ But the Minister of Agriculture will not have anything to do . ’ |
| 16 | Soldiers wiped out a village in south Sumatra 's Lampung province in 1989 because a zealot was thought to be preaching fundamentalism ( it has emerged he was just griping about land ownership ) . |
| 17 | The ex-Republican is Mr Lowell Weicker , a blunt critic of the conservative wing of the party , who was unseated in 1988 after a number of prominent right-wing politicians supported his Democratic opponent . |
| 18 | The Parliamentary Ombudsman was the first to be created in Britain in 1967 after a series of incidents highlighted how powerless people were against an abuse of power by central government . |
| 19 | In western Germany , for instance , OECD figures suggest that the total of industrial waste was lower in 1990 than a decade earlier . |