Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few crofting families clung on there until the 19th century but the island is now uninhabited . |
| 2 | The restoration of this historic fighter has been completed right down to the last detail , it carries a complete set of camera ports , although the cameras have not been fitted . |
| 3 | Two species of butterfly fish have been observed to swim slowly backwards at the first hint of trouble , making their false eyes seem even more real . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When pressed down half-way , at which point it can be caught in a notch , the note is raised a semitone ; when pressed down farther to the second notch the note is raised another semitone . |
| 6 | The rate of depreciation slows down significantly in the second and third years but still runs at around 20 per cent a year . |
| 7 | Huy 's job was to tamp this second layer down on to the first . |
| 8 | 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in windsurfing is that it has developed so rapidly in the last ten years that boards only a few years old are very out of date and lack the features mentioned earlier . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The attachment to a preferred person develops most strongly in the first year of life . |
| 11 | behind the antique shop , and we went along and had a look and at ten o'clock it had dropped right down to the second step from the bottom roughly |
| 12 | We know more about Milton , his personal concerns and his literary plans than we do about any other poet of his time , and indeed it may be that we have to come right up to the nineteenth century before we learn so much about the inner life of any poet . |
| 13 | To date it is a subtle but important change of mood that , with luck , will grow stronger over the winter — allowing spring to bring those green shoots of recovery that the Treasury and the Chancellor have been banging on about for the last two years . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Larger , ‘ executive ’ cars are poorer value to buy new , because their value drops so sharply in the first few years . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | She handed over a neatly wrapped ‘ mixed bunch ’ to one customer , with a chatty , ‘ Here you are , love , ’ and moved swiftly on to the next . |
| 18 | ( As for the war metaphor itself , that began to appear not long after the first world war stopped . ) |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Heart attack victim Jeff , 72 , planned his send off down to the last detail . |
| 22 | We had fellows who had come straight out of the First World War , afraid of nothing . |
| 23 | Since July profits have picked up slightly for the first time in 18 months . |
| 24 | I mean they 're probably booked up now for the next three or four years anyway |
| 25 | The Borderers , coached by Jim Telfer , beat Glasgow High/Kelvinside 27–16 at the Greenyards in their final game to win the major championship and hold off Edinburgh Academicals ' challenge , Kelso , relegated last season , moved back up to the first division . |
| 26 | These two points will be attacked fairly directly in the next section . |
| 27 | It is important to stress that the method of control has in fact changed quite substantially over the last few years . |
| 28 | YET he was caught completely unawares as the first recipient of the Barclay 's Eagle Trophy and a £1,000 cheque . |
| 29 | The simultaneous process of relaxing autarchy and rapprochement with the western democracies moved very slowly in the first half of the 1950s . |
| 30 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |