Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The rate of depreciation slows down significantly in the second and third years but still runs at around 20 per cent a year . |
| 4 | Huy 's job was to tamp this second layer down on to the first . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Heart attack victim Jeff , 72 , planned his send off down to the last detail . |
| 9 | Since July profits have picked up slightly for the first time in 18 months . |
| 10 | I mean they 're probably booked up now for the next three or four years anyway |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In no sense did it correspond to the experience of student activism that so many of my generation were to go through elsewhere over the next few years . |
| 13 | They rode through just before the first of the big gate timbers descended in an explosion of sparks . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Output down sharply in the third quarter of 1992 , with September registering a 0.4 per cent fall |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | This improvement came through entirely in the second half and was predominantly in the USA where we saw the beginnings of economic recovery . |
| 18 | Seaman badly bruised a hip and came off early in the second half last weekend but has received extensive treatment . |
| 19 | Business has been built up steadily over the last 12 years in Germany , Denmark , Spain , France , Eire and Greece , and more recently in Eastern Europe , the Czech Republic and Slovakia . |
| 20 | The same problem will crop up again after the first conference , though less acutely since the cleaning times are reduced . |
| 21 | The need is primarily for affordable housing ( to buy or rent ) for young people wanting to set up home for the first time , or for the elderly wanting smaller , more manageable accommodation . |
| 22 | South Shields , St Helens and Birkenhead all shot up quickly during the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | City came back strongly in the second with two goals in five minutes . |
| 26 | These are the things that we have both missed out on over the last few years , both of us working at all times . ’ |
| 27 | Reporter asks : What have you missed out on in the last forty years ? |
| 28 | But things have turned round slightly in the last few weeks and erm the players have got themselves together and erm we 've managed to string a few results together . |
| 29 | While the weight of the waste we all throw away has been going down slightly over the last twenty years , ( because things like glass , plastic bottles and cans have become thinner ) , the volume of waste has been rising . |
| 30 | So waits now as Lawrence comes up and bowls to him and this , oooh off the edge and that 's going down up towards the third man , going over the ropes down the far end and and that 's one boundary there off the edge at one hundred and thirteen for four , Lawrence wo n't be to happy about that , but it happens to all fast bowlers . |