Example sentences of "[verb] done [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company has done well in the last year so Mr Jones decides to give himself a 15% rise , the supervisory staff a 10% rise and the non-supervisory staff a 5% rise . |
| 2 | Eubank looked as though he was going to finish off Thornton in the ninth round — and should have done so in the tenth . |
| 3 | After an hour of this , the pike left it alone and when it had done so for the fifth time , El-ahrairah swam across himself and went home . |
| 4 | They had done so for the last forty-five years . |
| 5 | They had done so for the last forty-five years |
| 6 | His main findings were that 51 per cent had left employment in the destination area at some stage during the twelve-month period , most of these had returned to their area of origin and that 75 per cent of those who left the destination area had done so within the first ten weeks . |
| 7 | Sales at Dillons and Ryman are marginally ahead , but Pentos Office Furniture and Athena have done badly in the fourth quarter . |
| 8 | Fewer than 1 in 5 of the men in our sample has confined his sexual experience to a single partner , though two-thirds of them have done so over the last 12 months . |
| 9 | I have done so for the last seven or eight weeks . ’ |
| 10 | They have done so in the first place because of the advantage of high space utilization on limited ground area ; an important asset to companies trying to make the best use of a high value industrial site with no room for extension . |