Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It dipped further on occasions when an end to the war seemed in prospect , notably on Feb. 15 and again on Feb. 19 , when it went briefly below $16 for the first time since July 1990 . |
| 2 | The interviewer knows a secret and naturally imparts it to his million or so readers in the next issue . |
| 3 | We give more money to the Common Market budget than we give in aid to the third world . |
| 4 | For bonds which do not fall in value below £20,000 on the first anniversary there is a bonus of 0.4% gross ( 0.3% net ) . |
| 5 | The chosen design of an individual gear is seen to be successful only if it not only meshes with the next gear in the train but also contributes to the selection of the desired gearbox ratios . |
| 6 | Meat production in the Soviet Union was down 12% in the first part of this year , while milk production has fallen by 10% . |
| 7 | One can then say that it is only things of the second sort which count as things his action prevented , when one is calculating its good and bad effects , and thus distinguish Bentham 's criterion of rightness and wrongness from a rigorist one . |
| 8 | He then crossed together members of the first generation , and found that in the second generation tall and short peas occurred in the ratio 3 tall : 1 short . |
| 9 | We shall consider only distortions in the next section . |
| 10 | The Taiwanese government said last week that the rate of population growth this year would dip below 1% for the first time , to 0.95% , and forecast zero growth by 2035 . |
| 11 | It must , therefore , be emphasised that , despite the good intentions of the organisers , ‘ Genova nell'età barocca ’ is overwhelmingly an exhibition about Genoese painting , not the arts in Genoa , still less Genoa in the seventeenth century . |
| 12 | Tax Relief — Only interest on the first £30,000 of the loan is eligible for tax relief . |
| 13 | I was no longer part of the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist . |
| 14 | to service the service clan which , I do n't think will be controversial but erm I did just seat for the first part of report , the little bit about . |
| 15 | Commenting on its much improved figures ( see page seven ) , Cray Research Inc said order backlogs during the first quarter of rose to $381m from $354m in the same period a year ago , adding to positive overall quarterly earnings : John Carlson , the new chairman and chief executive , said that the contract value of orders signed was some $124m compared with just $86m in the first quarter of last year . |
| 16 | The company , which owns Spear & Jackson , the garden tools manufacturer , has been the subject of recurrent speculation for months , and it was fuelled last month when Neill announced a fall in pre-tax profits from £2.71m to just £28,000 in the first half . |
| 17 | We were sitting round the newsroom table , mulling over ideas for the next day 's programme . |
| 18 | Business development manager Laszlo Szilvessy forecasts that the company will turn over $1.5m in the first quarter of 1993 , after a disappointing $740,000 in the last three months of 1992 . |
| 19 | Next season will see four national divisions of 10 clubs and the introduction of home and away fixtures for the first time . |
| 20 | The membership remained largely moribund until the First World War , although the title of the union had been somewhat pretentiously changed to the National Agricultural Labourers ' and Rural Workers ' Union ( N A L R W U ) in 1912 . |
| 21 | Nor do the French stay overnight much ; hence a hotel-occupancy rate of just 37% for the first half . |
| 22 | We must examine it to see what sense it can yield us in the case of those who , as it happens , are not men in the first place , and in what way , once this is done , it will have changed its meaning for those who , by no special fault or merit of their own , actually are so . |
| 23 | And Oxford take on Cambridge in the 119th Varsity Athletics match . |
| 24 | Redcar take on Ripon in the first round of the Yorkshire Cup and Andy Rogers replaces Jim Butcher at prop , while Mike Donoghue returns to the second row . |
| 25 | However , how many times have you seen your ball deviate off course at the last moment due to someone not repairing their pitch mark ? |
| 26 | Town are still second in the first division , but are reckoned to be playing the best football . |
| 27 | ‘ He said it was inevitable , that bad blood would always surface in the next generation , and that the only way he could hope to save me was to chase the devil from my soul before he got a proper hold . ’ |
| 28 | More reinforcements flew in yesterday morning from the 7th Infantry Division in Fort Ord , California , to back up the earlier contingents from the 82nd Airborne and the 5th Mechanised Infantry , who launched the initial assaults . |
| 29 | Obviously the forcing resistance is one of the fundamental factors influencing high-speed performance so this relationship is given further consideration in the next section . |
| 30 | The last week in August 1939 saw the 1st Bucks Battalion , still members of the 145th Infantry Brigade and part of the 48th Division , just returned from the annual camp at Lavant , near Chichester . |