Example sentences of "[adv] for the [num ord] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commander Fairley saw at once the wisdom of keeping the two children of his first marriage together for the last years of their progress to maturity . |
| 2 | If a pup from the England A team should over-pitch the new ball , then , sure as eggs are eggs , England 's captain will tonk it back past him and set off for the first runs of 1992 . |
| 3 | If a pup from the England A team should over-pitch the new ball , then , sure as eggs are eggs , England 's captain will tonk it back past him and set off for the first runs of 1992 . |
| 4 | Over in Cheltenham , Frank Ford has been watching out for the first signs of winter . |
| 5 | The old nomes grumbled among themselves , and scanned the sky anxiously for the first signs of robins or reindeer . |