Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The current 300,000 youth training places in the United Kingdom compare with the lamentable 7,000 or so under the last Labour Government . |
| 2 | And if you look back at the minutes and then Yona I think she 's great as the secretary because she does n't let anything go but on the other hand she 's pretty informal about and the way th that over the weeks you know somebody er Julie or June or Mervia Ann come up with the suggestion that they maybe feel why do n't we do this and then by the next week it 's turned into a a rally or a big picket or or a record . |
| 3 | With Ruggles and Parkinson hitting high and hard in the third , Partners held a 14–11 advantage but again failed to capitalise , although a couple of refereeing decisions left them puzzled . |
| 4 | This was low in 1801 and 1802 but high over the next five years ; it was on the low side in 1812 and 1813 , recovered in 1814 , but was falling again as the wars ended . |
| 5 | He will head a start-up team of seven staff which is expected to grow to a dozen or more over the next six to nine months . |
| 6 | He will head a start-up team of seven staff which is expected to grow to a dozen or more over the next six to nine months . |
| 7 | Their second defeat in four days by a London club means that a quick return to the present Second Division is more likely than ever for the First Division 's bottom team . |
| 8 | The chairman thanked all those who had worked hard and tirelessly over the last year for the benefit of the club and its members . |
| 9 | Its west façade was rebuilt in the eighteenth and also in the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | I then zealous to understand I I er , er , erm sought it Statutes , Volume thirty-three nineteen ninety three edition and studied most carefully pages six hundred and seventy-five to six hundred and seventy-seven and there I found an account of what has happened to Sections two and three and also for the first time light was shed upon Section two A. My Lords , I have from time to time ventured to express some doubt as to whether our legislative procedures were as excellent , as I 'm sure Your Lordships would wish them to be and when I recently suggested in the most mild terms to Her Majesty 's Government that they might consider some form of enquiry into our legislative procedures to see whether as they were as high class as they should be , erm I was given a very negative reply the clear influence of which was that the our legislative procedures could not possibly be improved and My Lords I do really think with respect that that is a proposition which is open to doubt . |
| 11 | What took place around the time of the lunar eclipse in Aquarius on August 6th and again on the 18th , when both Venus and Jupiter were eclipsed by the Moon in your opposite sign of Leo , seems to have upset the applecart . |
| 12 | held several commands in the parliamentary navy in the period 1646–52 and again during the second Dutch war . |
| 13 | Yet more men were coming from the crossroads and deploying left and right beyond the first two units . |
| 14 | The species grows wild in Europe and the near East , but gardeners have been selecting nice forms for so long that even by the 17th century , flowers could be had in white , purple , pale and deep yellow , large and small , and with the colours striped , feathered or flamed . |
| 15 | Erm , I think it fair to say that if you 'd asked more or less to the next meeting and probably sub-committee would be quite , quite acceptable and I would thank you for drawing it to our to our attention . |
| 16 | ‘ I had to take him on more or less from the first . |
| 17 | But when thrifts went bust in their hundreds in 1989 , necessitating a federal rescue that could cost the taxpayer $500 billion or more over the next 30 years , the goalposts were abruptly moved for junk borrowers , too . |
| 18 | The population of Portadown increased more than tenfold in the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | Together with the urgent need for skills flexibility at all levels in the workforce in the 1990s , the philosophy of continual retraining , the enhancing and refreshing of existing skills and the establishing of new ones , is likely to be a major theme of European training initiatives throughout the 1990s and well into the next century . |
| 20 | Choose a sun protection factor of 15 or more for the first few days . |
| 21 | For the browsers there is Golf : The Golden Years , a pictorial anthology by Sarah Baddiel celebrating the last few years of the 19th century and the first 40 or so of the 20th . |
| 22 | Hove , however , came back more determined than ever in the second half . |
| 23 | The United States is so big that even in the twentieth century the inhabitants prefer to explore their own continent . |
| 24 | Dean Hodgson was first to go … caught behind … for 9 and then in the next but one over Broad was leg before for 14 … at 26 for 2 the Gloucestershire folk must have thought they were in for a hard day but Mark Alleyne came to the rescue … he made 73 … |
| 25 | But it is certain that even in the thirteenth century the Viscounts did not forget their Cornish connection . |
| 26 | I walked slowly round each vehicle , then peered underneath it , coming out and round and on to the next one . |
| 27 | Swindon promoted from 4th to 3rd and then to the 2nd division in consecutive seasons . |
| 28 | The equitable rules about penalties were , however , to a large extent already introduced into the Common Law Courts by statutes passed at the end of the seventeenth and early in the eighteenth century . |
| 29 | And no Tory government is gon na take away our Health Service from my grandchildren , who will be born in a National Health Service hospital and hopefully will enjoy the benefits and the care during the rest of the nineties and well into the next century . |