Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already , the germ is present which was to flower most fully in The Last Battle : the idea of school holidays being a mere Platonic shadow of our permanent refreshment in Paradise , of our earthly homes being but a reflection of heaven . |
| 2 | The rate of depreciation slows down significantly in the second and third years but still runs at around 20 per cent a year . |
| 3 | The main problem in windsurfing is that it has developed so rapidly in the last ten years that boards only a few years old are very out of date and lack the features mentioned earlier . |
| 4 | It is perhaps easier to work with the Germans , whom Britain fought so bitterly in the first half of this century , than with the French or the Italians , whose active roles in the Second World War were prematurely curtailed . |
| 5 | The attachment to a preferred person develops most strongly in the first year of life . |
| 6 | Most of the people , just over two thirds , who spent all the last year of their life in a residential or nursing home were 85 or more , and it is this age group which is predicted to increase most rapidly in the next twenty years ( Central Statistical Office ( CSO ) , 1989 ) so it is likely that increasing numbers will spend the last year of their lives in such homes . |
| 7 | Larger , ‘ executive ’ cars are poorer value to buy new , because their value drops so sharply in the first few years . |
| 8 | During the show that night , she tried so hard in the second song , which was now ‘ The Last Rose of Summer ’ that her voice cracked on ‘ No rosebud is nigh ’ . |
| 9 | evidence , er I would however like to point out this is n't included into the report , but much of these have these days that incidence of complaints received er by organization such as ours from the general public and I 'm happy to report this indeed can be verified factually that the incidence of complaint against the highway service has dropped off enormously in the last two or three years , certainly within the last two years when we concentrated so much of our time and effort and improved in the quality and immediacy of the service of practice , er the level of complaints these days , and these are general complaints , not |
| 10 | Offiah , back in action against Widnes last Friday after missing two matches with hamstring trouble , was carried off early in the second half after pulling up in agony . |
| 11 | These two points will be attacked fairly directly in the next section . |
| 12 | The simultaneous process of relaxing autarchy and rapprochement with the western democracies moved very slowly in the first half of the 1950s . |
| 13 | But wherever they end up , there 's a good chance they 'll be moved on again in the next few weeks — 28 groups have been moved on in the last 18 months and the County Council is moving on another group from Kirtlington , north of Oxford tomorrow . |
| 14 | It seemed all over in the 63rd minute when Clough , a few yards outside the penalty area , volleyed a headed clearance instantly into the roof of the net before Hardwick could move a muscle . |
| 15 | Interest in golf has grown so rapidly in the last ten years that it has reached out beyond its traditional confines and become glamorous . |
| 16 | Both scored highly in the first round but the French had done so well in the next round with three landing on the line , that only the RAF stood a chance of catching them . |
| 17 | But perhaps the most punishing — and undeserved — losses had been suffered by von Zwehl 's VII Reserve Corps , which had done so brilliantly in the first days of the battle . |
| 18 | Output down sharply in the third quarter of 1992 , with September registering a 0.4 per cent fall |
| 19 | These were first written down maybe in the twelfth century , but now survive , often in a fragmentary state , only in the Icelandic prose sagas of the thirteenth century and later , the most famous of which is Heimskringla , a series of lives of kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson ( d.1241 ) . |
| 20 | What is interesting about this is that they clearly do not know the history of the form ; they are unaware that the rule was made so rigidly in the first place to suit the whims of anti-feminists . |
| 21 | This improvement came through entirely in the second half and was predominantly in the USA where we saw the beginnings of economic recovery . |
| 22 | Golding 's Lord of the Flies ( 1954 ) is in the third person , though like Defoe 's most famous novel it is about an island marooning ; but Rites of Passage ( 1980 ) — the first of the Tarpaulin trilogy — is a memoir-novel , composed not just in the first person but in a pastiche of the English of the Napoleonic wars , especially in its sea-terms — a sort of ‘ sub-Jane Austen language ’ , as he has breezily put it . |
| 23 | Seaman badly bruised a hip and came off early in the second half last weekend but has received extensive treatment . |
| 24 | That such an interpretation , even though it deviates in important respects from Hume 's own intentions , is much less vulnerable to criticism , will be seen more clearly in the next chapter , when we analyse in greater depth the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity , and its ontological significance . |
| 25 | Real changes will show up only in the next ten or 20 years , and even then they may be hard to monitor against the confused background of deteriorating conditions in today 's Soviet Union . |
| 26 | Boxall and Tierney came back strongly in the second game , but the Blackmoor pair pulled away at 7–5 up to take the game 15–7 . |
| 27 | City came back strongly in the second with two goals in five minutes . |
| 28 | Reporter asks : What have you missed out on in the last forty years ? |
| 29 | ‘ They played really well in the first half and their commitment was total in the second half . |
| 30 | ‘ My main aim will be to stay in the team and help Ipswich finish high up in the First Division . ’ |