Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ibrahim was widely regarded as the second most powerful man in the Maldives , after his brother-in-law , President Gayoom . |
| 2 | The result is that many glider pilots are becoming complacent about parking and on a really windy day it is not unusual to see gliders at risk , just waiting for the first really big gust of wind to blow them over . |
| 3 | The new report also casts doubt on the importance of methane , usually cited as the second most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide . |
| 4 | Rigel in Orion has 60000 times the luminosity of the Sun , and even at its distance of 900 light-years it still shines as the seventh apparently brightest of all the stars ; its magnitude is 0.1 . |
| 5 | Now she 's about to compete in the first ever round-the-world air race . |
| 6 | We combine these by choosing just a few random points in them , say two or three , and copying from the first string up to the first point ; then copying from the second up to the second point ; then copying from the first again ; and so on , switching between them at each point . |
| 7 | But the traditional Fijian elites , the power and influence of Australian and multinational companies , and US military and strategic interests were seriously threatened by the last duly elected civilian administration , Bavandra 's Labour government . |