Example sentences of "[adv] to the [num ord] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was very lethargic but I just put it down to the first months of my pregnancy . |
| 2 | If they were down to the last dregs of their confidence after their Hillsborough defeat it did not show and it took Kelly 's superb reflexes to deny Newell after only three minutes . |
| 3 | The garden 's main crops of apples and pears are gathered in late September and through to the first weeks of October . |
| 4 | Eleven papers were given — which dealt with aspects of the history of popular culture from the 16th through to the 20th centuries in areas as diverse as early modern Germany , 19th century Russia and 20th century Mexico and India . |
| 5 | Now , so close to the Last Days for which he had been prepared , Seth was what he was , and nothing less . |
| 6 | Even in the European North many peasants used old flintlocks right up to the first decades of the twentieth century , and in Siberia the use of bows and spears by Russians was not unknown at least as late as the 1830s . |
| 7 | Up to the last years of the eighteenth century , declining levels of employment in agriculture for the wives and daughters of the countryside could have been offset by the taking in of manufacturing work . |
| 8 | ‘ Josephinism ’ in religious matters , again , it is now clear , had behind it a long tradition extending back to the first years of the century . |
| 9 | Presumably such militias date back to the last years of the Roman period , although there is no evidence for them in the fifth century . |