Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Public opinion , though skewed to the right on many issues , has not moved further right between 1979 and 1989 , and may actually have moved in a contrary direction . |
| 2 | Many of the records — ‘ pinched ’ from or discarded by his musical family — were scratched and worn , but it was Music with a capital ‘ M ’ and the first time I heard the Chopin first piano concerto , we nearly had a fight because I insisted on playing it right through four times . |
| 3 | You , you had to in those days you had to sort of er use your common sense because if you had a big healthy baby it 's a long while to go right through ten o'clock at night till six o'clock the next morning . |
| 4 | You can all see that it is imperative that we all maintain the efforts that have been successful in 1992 right through 1993 . |
| 5 | The export department of Stoddard Carpets has been operating successfully for 26 years . |
| 6 | In 1961 , Arnold Claisse became President , a post he held most successfully for 10 years , during which the niggles about the bondholding autocracy increased and first surfaced formally at the 1970 Annual General Meeting . |
| 7 | A former bus driver , illness forced him to give up the DIAL office at Kingsley which he ran successfully for two years . |
| 8 | He moved to Australia to box professionally , and fought there successfully for ten years until his attempt at the Australian middleweight title in 1890 , when he was defeated by Jim Hall . |
| 9 | The fusion reaction has in fact technically been achieved at the Princeton Tokomak fusion test reactor which operated successfully for 50 milliseconds . |
| 10 | We 've been retrying to get recognition nationally and locally for fifteen years . |
| 11 | Despite an approaching typhoon which ordinarily would have left the streets deserted , the march attracted 40,000 people - the largest political demonstration locally for 20 years . |
| 12 | But that 's for a mobility assistant where I go in and befriend somebody and they employ me to take them somewhere for two hours . |
| 13 | Bob works relentlessly for one purpose ; that his music could change mankind 's thinking to bring about unity among the races , and more so for the oppressed people . |
| 14 | Despite natural hardships and TB ( which he resisted remarkably for twenty years ) , he loved life passionately . |
| 15 | Graduate job prospects ‘ worst for 60 years . ’ |
| 16 | It follows that I award for this period of care by the plaintiff 's parents the sum of fifteen thousand pounds which equates to an award of three pounds hourly for five thousand hours . |
| 17 | We found a neat village south of Peterlee called Elwick , complete with tree-decked , green , Tabatha Twitchet shop and two super pubs , where we lived uneasily for three years . |
| 18 | These are active and sociable holidays , mostly for two weeks , for 30 to 40 guests at a time . |
| 19 | They do not occur naturally , but were produced commercially for 50 years , beginning in 1929 . |
| 20 | The cathedral suffered grievously in the First World War , being bombarded mercilessly for four years , during which time it suffered 300 direct hits . |
| 21 | But sound reasoning led those original optimists astray for two reasons . |
| 22 | So a lot of sort of tracking to and fro between one end of the office , hoping that the two groups would n't meet . |
| 23 | Putting this more precisely , the proper time taken by light to pass to and fro between two fixed points in spaces oscillates . |
| 24 | He said almost sulkily , ‘ I 've been behaving badly for two years , and you know it , and you do n't even mind . ’ |
| 25 | The fact is that for most children maths has been taught badly or rather they have learnt it badly for one reason or another , so there is a need for , for an improvement or a change , so the idea that if children can understand something this will help them to remember it or to make it more real to them , this does seem to be a shift over the last generation . |
| 26 | The Norwich civil servant thought the trip would be a complete waste of time after arriving to find the lake completely frozen over but the pike fed furiously for three hours . |
| 27 | The true number probably lies somewhere between 8 and 12 million animals . |
| 28 | Under its headline ‘ Mercantile Tricycles Denounced ’ , the Graphic described how , in default of paying a 10 shillings fine plus costs , this cycling desperado was sentenced to seven days ' imprisonment — and what is more , poor Thomas Duff had been estimated by the police to have been rattling along at somewhere between 8 and 10 miles per hour . |
| 29 | The gestation period of a horse is about 11 months , that of a donkey 12 to 13 months , and that of the hybrid somewhere between 11 and 13 months . |
| 30 | anyway I 'm not sure when our allocation of tickets goes on sale , but it 's only likely to be somewhere between 2–3,000 . |