(c) Many examples ___ tax evasion were found.
(d) The answer ___ the problem was to retrain the workforce.
(e) Globalisation, ___ a political sense, involves a loss of national authority.
(f) The second point is their impact ___ developing countries.
4 Prepositions in phrases
Complete the following phrases with the correct preposition.
(a) ___the whole
(b) point ___ view
(c) in respect ___
(d) ___ spite of
(e) ___ conclusion
(f) ___ the other hand
(g) ___ order to
(h) standard ___ living
5 Prepositions of place and time
Note the difference between‘among’ and ‘between’:
Among 14 students in the class, only two were from Africa.(large group)He divided his time betweenthe offices in Barcelona and Madrid.(limited number)Complete the following sentences with suitable prepositions of place or time.
(a) ___ the respondents, few had any experience of working abroad.
(b) Industrial production declined gradually 1976 1985.
(c) Most workers the European Union retire before the age
60.
(d) Adam Smith was born Scotland 1723.
(e) Chocolate sales fall summer and peak Christmas.
(f) the surface, there is no difference male and female
responses.
(g) The countries the Mediterranean held a meeting
20 May.
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