Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [num] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was built around 1100 by the first Earl of Northampton to commemorate his safe return from the Crusades . |
| 2 | It has sold only two in the last four years . |
| 3 | I remember clearly one of the first times I gave a word of knowledge . |
| 4 | When the French batted they could muster only 78 in the first innings . |
| 5 | The number of compulsory and creditors ’ voluntary liquidations fell below 5000 in the third quarter of 1991 . |
| 6 | Bart-Williams , who has started just two of the last nine games , said : ‘ I am very disappointed not to be in the side . |
| 7 | A man aged about 50 in the second car also suffered minor injuries and shock . |
| 8 | The convincing wins over the Scots saw Australia take its winning sequence to a record eight tests in succession and the Wallabies have now lost only one of the last 13 internationals . |
| 9 | ‘ If we had been sitting at the bottom I could accept my fate , but we are seventh and have lost only one of the last eight games . ’ |
| 10 | On fairly conservative criteria this parliamentary force numbered perhaps thirty-five in the first half of the 1790s , twenty in 1806 and between thirty-five and sixty in the parliaments from 1812 to 1831 , dropping to about thirty in the reformed parliament of 1832 . |
| 11 | However , Delyn Borough Council says a new church next to the Mynydd Isa community centre would create parking problems and take away one of the last remaining green spaces in the sprawling housing estates near Mold . |