Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crawford was seen in Play for Today after the first two episodes in the final series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em had already been shown . |
| 2 | When it was formed in 1919 AIB was a branch of the old Air Ministry which controlled civil aviation as well as the Royal Air Force , and it remained in that department until immediately after the Second World War when the Ministry of Civil Aviation was formed . |
| 3 | It comes under the hammer at 2.15pm on the 20th , at the Barnstaple Motel . |
| 4 | Although the king from time to time forbade ‘ puture ’ — the contributions in money and in kind exacted by the foresters — the levying of puture seems to have become a general practice at least by the fourteenth century . |
| 5 | The Pompeian house does , of course , only depict the Roman home of up to the first century A.D. and in later years , as can be seen at Ostia , the plan was developed . |
| 6 | Peace did not really reign again at Hatfield Chase until well into the eighteenth century . |
| 7 | ‘ The plates at least for the first four courses are washed as they come out of the dining room . ’ |
| 8 | A completely contrasting interpretation of history is represented by MacFarlane 's ( 1978 ) work on the origins of English individualism , where he argues that the structure of kinship which prioritizes the nuclear family and de-emphasizes other kin has been characteristic of England at least since the thirteenth century . |
| 9 | However , the scientists say they believed the layer would continue to thin every winter at least for the next eight years , after which a ban on use of certain gases will start to have a beneficial effect . |
| 10 | From the United States came reports of the battles on campus and in the south , and writers like jazz critic and Village Voice columnist Nat Hentoff ; from London came a critique of Wilson 's first stumbling days of power , a concern with the new politics of ecology , the black movement , Vietnam , Algeria , Cuba by then in the sixth year of revolutionary rule — the seizure of Burroughs 's The Naked Lunch by the Director of Public Prosecutions , R. D. Laing on ‘ Violence Masquerading as Love ’ , the campaign to legalize marijuana . |
| 11 | I , I think this business of up to the fourteenth is premiums due up to the fourteenth . |
| 12 | And what they did was they put a tube from here into the next bit of the stomach , that comes round from underneath there , put a tube across there |
| 13 | On the Talbot estate of Whitchurch in North Shropshire entry fines were lower in the early fifteenth century than in the late fourteenth , and there was a decline in the rents paid for demesne lands after 1400 , and little sign of recovery until well into the sixteenth century . |
| 14 | To be solely a film actor over here for the last 20 years would be very hard . ’ |
| 15 | In this article Peter J. Clarke , Manager , International Trade Services , AIB , traces the history surrounding the Letter of Credit from just after the First World War , when it reigned supreme , to the present day . |
| 16 | He launched what became ( from February 1666 ) the London Gazette , which remained the government newspaper until well into the next century . |
| 17 | SHIPPING giant ACL today pledged to stick with Liverpool at least for the next four years after a new contract was hammered out between the Swedish-owned company and Mersey Docks and Harbour Company . |
| 18 | Apart from the Harris 's hawks , we did n't get a chance to pick up any more birds until late on the second day . |
| 19 | No government which was known to enjoy the support of the Crown was defeated in a general election until well into the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | But it is the husband who is responsible for paying it and who must acquire the money from outside in the first place . |
| 21 | Situated in the historic ‘ Boston ’ area of Enniskillen , ( nearby is the Boston-Quay from where in the 19th century paupers were ferried across the river to the workhouse ) the recently restored and refurbished buildings have been brought back to life as a thriving market place and exciting resource centre for craft and design in Fermanagh . |
| 22 | If the text is accurate , it would seem to indicate that the three kadiliks of Istanbul , Bursa and Edirne were all originally registered as 300-akce kadiliks and that their registration had not been changed by Hezarfen 's time , although all three outranked Damascus and Aleppo at least until the eighteenth century . |
| 23 | The last few days passed horrendously quickly — except for the bus ride down to Delhi at 3am on the last day of March . |
| 24 | Decisions made over the next three months seem certain to shape the future of work and play in Britain until well into the next century . |
| 25 | Pozdyshev also reaffirmed that Russia plans to keep its Chernobyl-type reactors in operation until well into the next century " after making the necessary safety changes " . |
| 26 | The Clean Air Act of 1970 set out to create a healthy atmosphere for the population within less than a decade , but even by the 1990s this has not been achieved and it is now expected that some urban areas will not achieve healthy air until well into the next century . |
| 27 | Not because the Harlequin man had sullied Meh'Lindi in Jaq 's eyes , oh no , no question of such a despicable thought — but because Carnelian had used pleasure as a weapon , therefore Meh'Lindi must reject dalliance with any such delights ; even if she had felt the faintest inclination to dally in the first place , and that was a dubious proposition . |
| 28 | He only ever puts the gas on half-way to the first mark on the knob and in the winter keeps the central heating down to sixty degrees : " I sit with the blanket round me . " |
| 29 | The attempt to minimise industrial conflict has been a goal of public policy in Britain at least since the last century when the Conciliation Act of 1896 was passed . |
| 30 | Meetings of the circle are held at 8.15pm , preceded by Mass at 7.30pm on the first Wednesday of the month , at Loreto Convent Grammar School , Dunham Road , Altrincham . |