Example sentences of "on [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This system seemed likely to carry on through 1991 , until Brewer was injured during the early-season tour of Argentina . |
| 2 | The inquest of that autumn of 1959 ushered in a political battle over Clause IV of Labour 's constitution ( the common ownership clause ) , which raged on through 1960 , and left Gaitskell like a Great War general , neither victorious nor defeated , but having spilled too much blood over too little ground . |
| 3 | Gabby died in 1980 , but the spirit of his music lives on through three of his sons , Cyril , Bla and Martin . |
| 4 | Weyl outlines the argument and moves on through seven spherical symmetries to the prospect of 230 crystal groups before coming to rest on thoughts of higher generality of principle . |
| 5 | Life has arisen on about one planet per galaxy ( in our galaxy , Earth is the lucky planet ) . |
| 6 | It could be that er he wishes to distract attention between the interesting arguments going on about one man one vote which I 'm pleased to hear that Mr has won . |
| 7 | The Secretary of State for Employment and the Secretary of State for Education and Science , in an interesting double act at the Dispatch Box , sought to challenge my hon. Friend the Member for Sedgefield about Britain 's position in the league tables of numbers staying on between 16 and 19 . |
| 8 | As most villagers work in the fields during the day , the supply need only be switched on between five in the evening and eight in the morning . |
| 9 | While such machines are still a long way from being able to beat the American champion ( there are about 700 Masters in the US ) , it is clear that the period from 1977 to the present has seen a degree and pace of progress in machine chess that is very different in kind from what went on between 1957 and 1976 . |
| 10 | Follow on between two fences with lichen-encrusted hawthorn trees on the right . |
| 11 | Most insist on between one and four bound copies being provided by the candidate being examined . |
| 12 | The ‘ top ’ three cases each appear on between ten and fifteen days , while no case above the ‘ top ’ five appears on more than three days . |
| 13 | Mistrust of Russia was widespread , though , and discussions with Britain concerning a possible alliance were also carried on during 1901 . |
| 14 | Proceedings invariably dragged on for eighteen months . |
| 15 | Cos a boy in standard five could be getting on for thirteen . |
| 16 | It 's probably getting on for thirteen . |
| 17 | These lights are in one-to-one relationships with certain key registers of the machine and actually express the binary numbers in them ( a light being off for 0 and on for 1 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ Got to observe strict ARP , you see , Miss , though here we are gettin' on for five months of war and not a peep out of a Jerry plane . |
| 19 | Let him go ’ , so the interpreter sat down and M. Ver carried on for five minutes more . |
| 20 | And friendship with Clan Diarmaid , that we 've been fighting off and on for five generations ! |
| 21 | Now it was getting on for five o'clock . |
| 22 | This went on for five whole days — |
| 23 | Then began a remarkable conversation which went on for some time ; it was getting on for five when she left . |
| 24 | Efforts to procure his extradition , which have been going on for five years , and which seemed for a time to have been successful , have now been thwarted , at least for the moment . |
| 25 | ABBERLEY : Getting on for five in the morning . |
| 26 | Just leave lotion on for five minutes . |
| 27 | Er somewhere about Aye getting on for five five foot long . |
| 28 | Is he aware that the negotiations have been going on for five years , that we must have a replacement for the multi-fibre arrangement that will enable our textiles to penetrate the markets of countries which do not allow any textiles in and those with tariffs of 200 per cent. , and that even the United States has a tariff of 36 per cent . |
| 29 | Did very well there , getting on for five hundred pounds . |
| 30 | I think it 's something is n't it getting on for five hundred for the whole year was n't it . |