Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] [num] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 They were 18 feet away in two but then , said Mason , ‘ I forgot it was downhill ’ and he ran his first putt eight feet past the pin .
2 The success of the Chinese communists late in 1948 and early in 1949 , together with the effects of the European crisis , accentuated concern over the vulnerability of Japan .
3 with the lights fading , it 's gon na be five o'clock in half an hour 's time , feed the dogs just before five and then see you you see .
4 He opened a shop there in 1961 and gradually took over other premises , including the castle , until today he has an annual turnover of more than a million second-hand books .
5 Britain was totally unprepared for the cataclysm of the Franco-Prussian War late in 1870 and still less for its outcome .
6 Under new Law Society regulations the articled clerk must be paid an ‘ acceptable ’ salary , the intention being that this shall be at least equivalent to the undergraduate maintenance grant , grossed up to cover 52 weeks instead of 38 and further increased to take account of the income tax and national insurance contributions payable .
7 It could then be opened for signature later in 1992 or early in 1993 , to enter into force once ratified by 65 countries .
8 Yet they added their own particular flavour to the developing Siberian community , retaining seventeenth-century ways even until 1917 and beyond .
9 He then became an assistant to an Essex doctor , returning to his father late in 1762 or early in 1763 .
10 That directness of involvement was signalled by each teacher at the first stage of assessment receiving from central government late in 1989 and early in 1990 packs of materials , descriptions of policy , examples of assessment and timetables .
11 In pairs then in fours and finally as a whole staff mark the performance of your school as a point laying between each pair of opposites .
12 One could distinguish gamma ray bursts from such effects by observing flashes simultaneously at two or more fairly widely separated locations .
13 The training would also become increasingly complex , with landings from midget submarines late in 1943 and early in 1944 , but in October 1942 the best that could be produced were canoes to get the swimmer inshore and a cumbersome rubberised canvas suit of the type used by charioteers riding human torpedoes .
14 And the Home Office says conditions were improving … single cells were now only shared by two prisoners instead of three or even four .
15 Archer 's treatise The Personall Reigne of Christ upon Earth was published in London late in 1641 or early in 1642 , and predicted that the millennium was close at hand .
16 148 Squadron suffered such an attrition rate to its Wellingtons during attacks on Malta 's airfields early in 1941. that immediately after the end of February the unit was withdrawn to Egypt .
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