Example sentences of "[adj] [pos pn] [noun] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steel benefited from major government loans , accounting for half its borrowing during the first five-year plan . |
| 2 | ‘ We are also concerned that the North Down and Ards unit has lost half its beds in the last 10 years and recent board proposals are likely to mean another hundred closures . |
| 3 | Table 2.2 demonstrates changes over the seventeen years to 1987 : western Europe took over half our exports for the first time in recent history ; by 1987 , the EC alone took virtually half , and most other destinations , except for North America , had declined in relative importance . |
| 4 | Building up the Rose Bowl is going to take all my energies over the next year or so . |
| 5 | I made a point of playing all my players in the first two days . |
| 6 | All my motions on the first day . |
| 7 | ‘ Meaning that I 'll need all my strength in the next few days . |
| 8 | The Lincolnshire ones lost all their sons in the first World War , except one invalid one , and became rather impoverished , and the Norfolk Baileys hung on to a lot of the money . |
| 9 | Thanks to the committee members for all their help over the last year and particularly to Graham Espin for many years of enthusiastic effort with the committee , to Ross Hamilton our treasurer for all his hard work , to Mrs Sheila Peterson for her abilities as vice chairman and particularly her talent with the children at our functions , to Miss Netta Gibling who , as ever , provides continuity and expertise as secretary . |
| 10 | With the gale and hail at his back , Bradford and Bingley 's flyhalf Peter Rutledge scored all their points in the first half , converting his own try and succeeding with four penalty goals . |
| 11 | With the gale and hail at his back , Bradford and Bingley 's flyhalf Peter Rutledge scored all their points in the first half , converting his own try and succeeding with four penalty goals . |
| 12 | Harrogate scored all their points in the first half with a try by their Yorkshire scrum half , Guy Easterby , from a blind side scrum move , Steve Baker touching down a try following a tap penalty move . |
| 13 | The sum of all their labours over the last gruelling months . |
| 14 | Er I think that 's wonderful , wonderful work they 've done , er they 're absolutely dedicated , they 've so much as spent all their time in the last four years working here . |
| 15 | The campaign to get the new ‘ child tax credit ’ payable to mothers was eventually a successful one : while the tax credit-scheme as a whole was abandoned , the child benefit , combining family allowance and child tax allowance and payable to the mother for all her children including the first , rose like a Phoenix from the ashes , in the form of the Child Benefit Act , 1975 . |
| 16 | Hope bowed more elegantly , muttered the line about being her servant but concentrated all his will on the first look direct . |
| 17 | Philip offered to return all his gains of the last year on one condition : that Henry gave Alice in marriage to Richard and made his barons , both in England and on the Continent , swear an oath of fealty to Richard as heir . |
| 18 | If a detective approaches someone and says ‘ all your activities of the last week are consistent with the interpretation that you are planning to rob a post office ’ then , when the person replies , ‘ but as a matter of fact , I just am shopping there and no more , and that 's that ’ , one can either refer to intentionality or some such notion and allow the appeal or , with the detective , one can continue to keep one 's eye open . |
| 19 | Since the press seem to take any and every chance they can to doubt his ability to play , this article , and indeed all your support over the last few months , has been more than a pleasure to read . |
| 20 | I have immensely valued your advice , help , support , commitment , encouragement and above all your friendship over the last six years . |
| 21 | If you absolutely insist in giving all your information in the first answer , there 's no room for a further question , and the best kind of response is the one that leaves the next question sort of hanging on the end of it , so that the interviewer can come back with another question . |
| 22 | Thank you for all your contributions over the last year , and please accept my apologies if I have n't been able to use an article that you 've sent , hopefully the next issue will contain those for which due to lack of space I was unable to include this time . |
| 23 | All our work of the last eighteen months would be destroyed . |
| 24 | Finally , in Fig. 2 a we plot with higher time resolution the residuals obtained from all our observations in the first 15 days after the glitch ; as in Fig. 1 c , the effects of the increased slowdown rate and the 265-day component have been removed . |
| 25 | ‘ My papa died after he lost all our money in the last great depression . |
| 26 | It just means that we would like that because we know we 've covered all our costs in the first year and the second year is nice profit . |
| 27 | Knighted in 1946 , he continued to live in Oxford , to study in a room provided by his old college , and to write — in particular his volume on the Thirteenth Century in the Oxford History of England . |
| 28 | ( USA won 2–1 after scoring on both their chances in the second half though . ) |