Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [be] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that is over we are in the third stage . |
| 2 | Normally it is of the second magnitude , just about equal to the Pole Star , but every 2½ days it gives a long , slow wink , taking four hours to fade down below the third magnitude and remaining at minimum for a mere 20 minutes before starting to recover — after which nothing more happens for the next 2½ days . |
| 3 | Hammond was looking down , his shoulders hunched forward , as if he knew already what was in the second file . |
| 4 | Now I 'm in the sixth form and I can wear anything I like , it 's great . |
| 5 | I mean er now we 're in the second flow of them being emptied again , so I do n't know what 's gon na happen for the future . |
| 6 | Coventry used to be one of the best teams in England … they 've won the cup twice … now they 're in the second division and they had a hard time on saturday … five penalty kicks saw them through … with three tries … none of which were that dazzling … it was Hereford who entertained … their last try was something special something to remember … |
| 7 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 8 | It 's when you 've been flying them for a few days consecutively that it ( pardon the pun ) dawns on them that they could escape and find out what 's over the next hill . |
| 9 | ‘ Ten years ago I was in the tenth grade , my second year in high school . |
| 10 | Well she 's on the second balcony under in the centre under the top you know where the she 's said it 's great in the back there . |
| 11 | There are women miners here who were among the first to be laid off when Pittston sacked 4,000 of its 6,000 unionised miners in the early Eighties . |
| 12 | Not surprisingly they were among the first fossils to attract widespread attention . |
| 13 | Well it 's on the second of Jan July . |
| 14 | Well it was for the next two years . |
| 15 | Yet simultaneously and apparently paradoxically it was during the nineteenth century that the debate about sexuality exploded . |
| 16 | There they were on the first , belated , league Saturday of the season , celebrating their arrival in the first division , unveiling new-look Sunbury as a showpiece of healthy ambition and running Bath so close that the perennial might of the champions was instantly called into question . |
| 17 | This is how they were in the first few games of the season . |
| 18 | remember how it was in the first place so if you cut four in half , remember four |
| 19 | That 's how he was in the first place though . |
| 20 | Well I can remember then the last year when I was in the ninth year we did it in that half term , it was n't the first |
| 21 | Course when Walsall were promoted , they had n't got into the European systems then it was very much the old five forwards three halfbacks two fullbacks and a goalkeeper in those days , the , the laundry was there , in those days when they were in the second division . |
| 22 | It is a typical British beef type and perhaps for that reason its numbers at home are now dangerously low : fewer than 450 breeding cows were registered in 1987 when it was for the first time classified as a rare breed , though in the nineteenth century it had been the mainstay of the Scottish beef industry . |
| 23 | Parked in the multi storey car park in Guildon and were walking along and like there 's all this , you go down to the ground floor and then you 've got the first and second and er you can get to the first floor where it 's like the first floor the first floor is just above sort of street level |
| 24 | In registered motion paths , you click for each node , and so can accurately define where the actor will be in each frame relative to where it was in the last frame . |