Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Move the cursor to a blank line or on to the first character of the text to follow the blank lines |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ My grandfather was … always an active man , right t'more or less about the last year that he died . |
| 4 | Such was the popularity of film and such was the reforming zeal of that first decade or so of the twentieth century that there must have been every possibility that other agencies would take up the chance of producing , distributing , and exhibiting films in their own halls . |
| 5 | Either through this , or through their exercise of coercive powers , the great landed nobility were able to minimize damage to their incomes in the first twenty years or so after the first onset of the plague . |
| 6 | He parked ten yards or so after the last house , outside a wire-mesh fence in front of a late 1950s prefabricated school . |
| 7 | Does he remember a shadowed evening in his hotel room a day or so after the third Joe Frazier fight , moving to the window , his body still on fire from the assault ? |
| 8 | There were many cases where Bloomsbury House was involved not at all , or only at the last moment when it was generally too late to offer any constructive help . |
| 9 | Then he had another one about er Gertrude who was erm , I never did know very much about Gertrude but she was erm a lady of some repute in er in Egypt a at erm either just before or just after the First World War . |
| 10 | Government support of this kind in fact increased substantially during the generation or more before the First World War , when the foreign ministry trebled its spending on cultural relations in general . |
| 11 | Banbury in the 1960s was still full of professional and trades people who had been at the school before or immediately after the Second World War . |
| 12 | Consequently scientists did not move around as they do today , or even in the 19th century , and local learned societies and journals flourished . |
| 13 | Billy Arjan Singh saw the family once or twice during the next week and then Harriet and her cubs melted away into the jungle . |
| 14 | It 's not as huge as a Jeff Beck model , being just under an inch deep at the 12th fret , nor is it anywhere near as vee-shaped as a Clapton Strat , but it 's still a sizeable handful , except down by the first couple of frets where it 's a fair bit shallower , in good ‘ 59 fashion . |
| 15 | ( It is medically thought that only after the 28th week of pregnancy that the foetus has a separate existence from that of its mother ) . |
| 16 | The story goes that ealy in the last century the then owner , a reverend David Edwards made a good marriage to a rich but stout lady , Miss Purnell . |
| 17 | But there are copious indications that already in the eleventh century , and perhaps long before , money played a part at least as important as labour . |
| 18 | Thus a suspect defence completed the qualifying programme of six matches without conceding a goal ; they must be doing something right , although not for the first time their debt to Shilton was manifest . |
| 19 | Once you 've chopped off the top ten , there are mass mi middle , medium sized P L C's , the nine million to fifty million turnover er company and they 're looked after by some by major firms , some more often than not by the second tier firms , so we can see very much and we can penetrate those er that middle market situation , then these are the companies in the future that will er will probably be the big P L C's and also these it will be easier to get into these organisations er with the services that we have to look through to offer . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Hove , however , came back more determined than ever in the second half . |
| 22 | The population of Portadown increased more than tenfold in the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | Of particular interest in the mouse is the observation that up to the 8th day of gestation the isolated embryonic region will give rise to transplantable tumours when placed beneath the testis or kidney capsule ( 16,17 ) . |
| 24 | Although later in the fourteenth century some limits were placed upon the vulnerable houses , those outside royal patronage which had once yielded to pressure had forfeited their immunity . |
| 25 | The United States is so big that even in the twentieth century the inhabitants prefer to explore their own continent . |
| 26 | Recent research has shown that even in the thirteenth century the peasantry were participating much more actively in the monied economy than had previously been supposed . |
| 27 | But it is certain that even in the thirteenth century the Viscounts did not forget their Cornish connection . |
| 28 | It 's now quite sterile yet still manages to be immensely variable — to such a degree that even in the 18th century , gardeners thought all crocuses might simply be variants of it . |
| 29 | The sudden fall of an able and apparently powerful minister such as the Duc de Choiseul in 1770 showed that even in the last years of the lethargic and indifferent Louis XV this control was real . |
| 30 | 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 . |