Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 It shows that 94% of all items issued fell into the first two categories , and required no repair ( although 24% were in a well-used condition and might eventually require some attention ) , while only 6% fell into the last three categories and were in need of repair .
2 Idly Theodora turned to the last page .
3 So Reich wrote in the first part of The Sexual Revolution .
4 Meanwhile InterSpray struggled in the second leg , Rio to Hobart , to maintain the form that earned her second place in the first stage .
5 There were 14 British players — 12 of them English — in the field , yet home interest ended in the second round , with only Peter Marshall showing any prospect of progressing further .
6 Two years later Eyre brought off the first British professional staging of Cavalli 's Jason at the Buxton Festival .
7 Now Houghton reached for the first file and took out the piece of card that bore the fingerprints of a possible match .
8 Then Gannon struck in the 81st minute and added the third with a penalty after Exeter 's Kevin Miller was sent off for a second bookable offence in the 89th minute .
9 However , this turned out to be , in reality , another part of Kaiser Wilhelm 's expansionist policy , so the concessions were cancelled in 1905 and in 1914 , when Portugal joined in the First World War , all German interests were taken over by the Portuguese Government .
10 But McHale was a distant third last year when Fisher won for the third time , a sign of the troubles the three-times Tarmac champion was having with his ex-Carlos Sainz Toyota Celica .
11 I know when Brian went on the first Queen tour to America he hated it , so he had stabilisers made to give him 220v .
12 Just as Japan , a country dependent for 60% of its energy on oil , was a major sufferer when prices doubled in the second oil shock of 1979 , so it has been a major beneficiary of the subsequent fall in crude prices .
13 Farnham took the lead just after the interval when Musgrove netted at the second attempt after a good save from the 'keeper .
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