Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] on the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The horses always go much better on the second day , which makes the long journey seem worthwhile . |
| 2 | Three quick wickets went down early on the fourth morning , the first being Boon 's as he strolled a single , only to be embarrassed by keeper Pandit 's throw to the far end . |
| 3 | With the economy predicted to be on the upturn it is perhaps the right time for Allied to invest in the Firkin chain and cash in early on the next consumer boom . |
| 4 | Blanche had left a message for the sergeant to join her in the editor 's office of Inside Out on the fourth floor . |
| 5 | He was supposed to be down here on the second part of a double shift . |
| 6 | His quickest time for a 30-question puzzle was three-and-a-half minutes , which he did in the national championships though doing less well on the second puzzle meant he missed coming top . |
| 7 | Pre-construction work is already underway on the first phase , a 328,000 sq ft building set on a 20 acre green field site within Edinburgh Park , due for completion in Autumn 1995 . |
| 8 | The balance in Japan is also healthily positive , at 54% , only slightly down on the first quarter of the year . |
| 9 | Some twenty years later , Comden and Green were also behind On the Twentieth Century ( ) , whose book is not really in the same class as Wonderful Town , but which is quite magnificently preposterous . |
| 10 | From up here on the fifteenth floor the view was a panoramic one — unfortunately this morning it was also infinitely depressing . |
| 11 | Yes , all in all , a dreadful little show was being staged for me , up here on the twenty-first floor . |
| 12 | Artemis had been busy drawing , sitting on the window seat of the nursery , high up on the third floor of the family wing . |
| 13 | God knows how I did n't kill myself and the sheer of the whole thing was , it was n't even on the second floor , it was on the ground floor , they were just pulling a . |
| 14 | The Somerset captain would have been quite within his rights to have declined to play after 6.30 in the chance that it might rain hard enough on the third day to prevent any play . |