Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [adj] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To make the needle fit the groove , the disc contained abrasive material , so the tip would be ground down during the first two or three revolutions . |
| 2 | In the mid-1990s , object-oriented programming promises to bring the next irresistible revolution , but until that happens , no-one should be too surprised if the mass of desktop users splits into two camps , one that goes down the Unix-with-everything route , the other that decides as a matter of policy to remain in the ‘ do n't know ’ came , judging MS-DOS with a touch of Windows here and there to be good enough for the next three or four years until the picture of the future becomes a bit clearer . |
| 3 | Actually there are many stars with proper names , but in general these are used only for the first 30 or so , plus a few fainter stars of special interest — such as Polaris , Mizar in the Great Bear , and the variable star Mira , in Cetus , the Whale . |
| 4 | It had even caused Dad to get in touch with her ( although apparently for the past three or four years , he had been collecting cuttings … ) |
| 5 | I have done so for the last seven or eight weeks . ’ |
| 6 | In Roman art or in an 18th century Temple of Worthies ( such as the one at Stowe ) the rules of rhetoric might be invoked to argue that the bust functions as synecdoche , the head standing in for the whole physical and active domain of the body . |
| 7 | Put simply , everyone has come together for the common good and economic prosperity of the river . |
| 8 | The stage in between the original negative and the dupe is called an interpositive , and is on a low-contrast stock with a limited range of colours , mostly greys and greens . |
| 9 | Above all , we shall continue to reduce tax , especially for the low paid and allow working families to keep more of their earnings . |
| 10 | Some of them particularly the tall dressed stones of the Ballinaby and Kildalton districts , may in fact be much later , perhaps of the early Christian or even Viking period ; but failing evidence to the contrary , a Bronze Age dating may be presumed . " |
| 11 | The twenty years or so of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars produced a very rapid rise indeed in food prices . |
| 12 | Even here much of the relevant economic and employment data is by ‘ travel-to-work ’ area , and it is noteworthy that the Newcastle travel-to-work area , which includes both North Shields and Cramlington , extends up into Northumberland and down to include the Derwent Valley in County Durham , but does not include South Tyneside and Wear side . |
| 13 | Erm , the reason that that does n't tie in with the four hundred and eighty thousand pound er , increase in spending is that offsetting that seven hundred and seventeen thousand that you 've funded from your contingency , there is also a net reduction in spending by the Committee because of the changes in the devolution of central department charges and their allocation through committees , well less have been allocated to Social Services Committee in total . |
| 14 | The Indian Tamil plantation voters , along with the Tamil Muslim and Christian voters in other parts of this Sinhalese-Buddhist island , helped the party to victory in the poorer areas . |
| 15 | Car 4 is one of two small cars — the other was 3 — which were built by the Lancaster Carriage and Wagon Company , along with the larger 5 and 6 and trailers 9 and 10 . |
| 16 | And you can go further down under the ninety three and you may want to create further sub-directories . |
| 17 | A Bristol merchant , of Quaker origin , called William Springett bought Alderly in the early 1740s and determined to turn what was then a small and jumbled Tudor manor into an up-to-date gentleman 's seat . |
| 18 | By plotting the areal distribution of marine strata and making reasonable inferences from facies distributions about the location of former shorelines , it has been established that for long periods of time in the Phanerozoic , especially in the early Palaeozoic and late Cretaceous , the continents have been inundated by up to two thirds of the present area by epicontinental seas . |
| 19 | What it is difficult for those from the West fully to grasp , is just how surreal life under state socialism has been , especially in the early fifties when the system reached a kind of apogee of dementia . |
| 20 | Denis Smith says he enjoyed himself at Stoke especially in the early seventies when they had a good team … as a professional he wants Oxford to win but after the game will revert to being a stoke supporter … he says his young son also supports them |
| 21 | The gap between these views widened enough in the early 1980s for ( what is now ) the Liberal Democrat party to capture a fairly even share of the voting allegiances of different socio-economic groups and regions . |
| 22 | From the June issue , your paper will be available only from the new blue and white dispenser units , which will be placed in prominent locations . |
| 23 | ( This sense is found only in the present perfect or the past , but never in the non-past . ) |
| 24 | It was only in the late 1890's that the company extended its activities into gold mining . |
| 25 | So natural had this practice become that only in the past fifteen or twenty years has there grown up in Britain the idea of conserving redundant industrial and commercial buildings and putting them to new uses . |
| 26 | Real changes will show up only in the next ten or 20 years , and even then they may be hard to monitor against the confused background of deteriorating conditions in today 's Soviet Union . |
| 27 | If he produced a book about once every five years , he could pretend to have been working on it all that time , even it he had cobbled it together only in the last two or three months . |
| 28 | Caribbeans who have come to Britain from abroad have probably always brought with them their own distinctively Caribbean varieties of language ; yet it is only in the last two or three decades that educators and policy makers — and to some extent , the general public — have taken an interest in " Black English " ( also called Creole or Patois ) in Britain . |
| 29 | However , using any form of medication should be a last resort and it is only in the last four or five years that I have used herbal remedies ( for eighteen years before that I used no treatments ) as a lot of minor problems will heal themselves , provided that the tank is healthy and the water quality is good . |
| 30 | It is only in the last hundred and fifty years , in any culture , that a majority of people have had even minimal access to this technique which already , over two millennia , had been carrying a major part of human culture . |