Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Soviet trade with the West expanded rapidly in the first half of 1989 , showing a 9 per cent growth in volume , while imports grew by about 11 per cent . |
| 2 | From this , a lane goes forward to the last habitation , Dorusduain , with a parking space midway . |
| 3 | Because I 've had my hair highlighted regularly for the last ten years it gets really dry . |
| 4 | As one seminar is brought to conclusion plans forge ahead for the next and 1992 is no exception . |
| 5 | Dr Richard Neilman of the Nazelden Foundation in Minneapolis identifies the following eight characteristics : The sufferer thinks frequently of the next opportunity for use or may make specific resolutions not to use . |
| 6 | Coleraine started brightly with Cook and Brian Donaghy both going close in the opening three minutes , but the Crues settled quickly and were presented with a golden opportunity to go ahead in the 12th minute . |
| 7 | Seymour committed suicide on 20 Apr. 1836 ; his illustrations appear only in the first two parts of PP ( Apr. , May 1836 ) . |
| 8 | In public perceptions the gap between Conservative unity and Labour unity narrowed sharply in the first few days of the campaign and again at the end , but actually increased very slightly in the third week . |
| 9 | She also asked Pamela to try again during the next week to draw up a list of ways she would like her parents to change . |
| 10 | They were watching the camp pack away for the last time before it moved on without them . |
| 11 | Although officials remain resolutely silent , there is a widespread belief that the British Government will authorise the colony 's administration to go ahead with the first batch of mandatory repatriations this week . |
| 12 | Michael Ramsey qualified only under the first of those epithets . |
| 13 | Quick replies by Kelly Shelford and Mark Elia led to the suspicion that New Zealand could score at will and were easing themselves into their stride , but doubts arose early in the second half with a succession of missed chances . |
| 14 | Skipper Chris Dickson feathered the mainsail up the first weather leg so that navigator Erle could jury rig a new mainsheet arrangement before the load came back on the boom as the boat bore away around the first mark . |
| 15 | It was an old concrete pillbox built just before the last war to house a gun covering the firth , and it stuck in the sand like a big grey tooth . |
| 16 | Some of these influences carried forward into the first fortnight of the campaign , though they faded towards the end . |
| 17 | Guillimont equalised midway through the first half from the penalty spot , while Manor were unlucky not to regain the lead when the referee blew for half-time just before a Lee Clutterbuck shot crossed the line . |
| 18 | However , the worst outrage on Fox Hill came only after the Second World War , when horrid concrete housing was plonked on the top . |
| 19 | The Association meets regularly on the first Friday of each month , at the RE Centre , when mass is said by our chaplain , Fr. |
| 20 | Comparing the ‘ Charlie Parker Story ’ directly with Vogue 's 14-track ‘ Original Bird ’ release ( and in effect listening critically for the first time ) , I found the Denon ‘ sound recovery ’ system somewhat inconsistent in places . |
| 21 | Mark Newbould scored twice in the first half for Stockton , Mark Gill added two more and Mark Briscow got the fifth after a run from halfway . |
| 22 | It was on this trip that a remarkable partnership came together for the first time . |
| 23 | Swanage suffered badly during the last war , chiefly from ‘ tip-and-run ’ raids by bombers swooping in from the sea . |
| 24 | The wind dropped gradually over the next 20 minutes . |
| 25 | It is only in the third- and fourth-session documents that this is to be found , and increasingly frequently , as , for instance , in chapter 13 of Lumen Gentium or in chapter 3 of the Decree on Missionary Activity , entitled ‘ Particular Churches ’ — a chapter written largely in the fourth session and one of the Council 's most mature texts . |
| 26 | Morgenthau 's Realist theory was , as we have said , based on six principles , outlined in an introductory chapter added only in the second edition of the book ; this fact may explain why the six principles do not deal explicitly with two of the three concepts that are central to the remainder of the book , namely ‘ national interest ’ and the ‘ balance of power ’ . |
| 27 | The simple end-product arrives only at the fifth attempt . |
| 28 | Both Seve and Irwin played badly in the third round , but you 're never going to do a good score at Lytham when it feels like three degrees below freezing and there 's a gale blowing , are you ? |
| 29 | He also urged them to remember Tory supporters living overseas at the next election . |
| 30 | Spenser dwells longest on the first , revealing it filled with ‘ infinite shapes of things dispersed thin' ( II , IX , 50 ) . |