Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They made it to the end of the road in Bombay where all the cars had to be steam cleaned inside and out for the last leg of the journey . |
| 2 | Mother churches tended to guard their privileges jealously and even in the nineteenth century some daughter churches and chapels were still dependent in some respects on the more ancient or more important mother church . |
| 3 | While Television began in Britain during the 1930s , it was not until just after the Second World War that a regular broadcasting service commenced . |
| 4 | More slowly , ministers and departments of State charged more or less specifically with the conduct of foreign affairs emerged in most West European countries , though it was not until late in the eighteenth century that this process began to reach completion . |
| 5 | In 1705 he wrote that he doubted whether he would see the winter through and early in the next year he died , leaving a last , unfinished letter to his young friend . |
| 6 | In an interview with William Hardcastle on BBC Radio 4 's ‘ The World This Weekend ’ , the text of which was published in the Irish News on 7 October , Craig introduced two themes which were to be repeated over and over during the next few days . |
| 7 | It really is not necessary to get bored with eating the same foods over and over during the next four weeks . |
| 8 | Thirdly , our policy analysis and research team , takes responsibility for looking further ahead , and doing a lot of the initial thinking about both the challenges and the opportunities that will affect the sector domestically and internationally over the next few years . |
| 9 | These recent proposals reflect Moscow 's current priority to retrench economically and militarily in the Third World . |
| 10 | This is not to denigrate what the Six did achieve economically and politically during the first few years of the organisation . |
| 11 | The habit became popular among women from the 1920s onward and particularly after the Second World War . |
| 12 | The lights flickered on and off for the last dance . |
| 13 | Speaking last night from the motel in Kelowna , 400 miles north of Vancouver , where she has lived on and off for the last three years , Mrs Allan said : ‘ I am not coming home until I have got my child . |
| 14 | However , per capita food production in Africa has been declining slowly and steadily over the last few decades . |
| 15 | Billy Arjan Singh saw the family once or twice during the next week and then Harriet and her cubs melted away into the jungle . |
| 16 | Once or twice during the next few days Bathsheba saw Troy working in her hayfields . |
| 17 | I 've only heard it once or twice in the last few |
| 18 | By 10.10 the men have still not eaten , although by this stage they should have ‘ stood down ’ for an hour and been more than half-way through the second training session . |
| 19 | Every goalkicker hits a periodic trough and more than once over the last 12 months ‘ Noddy ’ has been within one unsuccessful kick of handing over to the New South Wales fullback Marty Roebuck . |
| 20 | Nearly two-thirds have used the same type of credit more than once in the last two years . |
| 21 | The railways in America could be built very quickly and cheaply in the nineteenth century partly because of the efficiency of the timber trestle bridge . |
| 22 | More and more over the last few years , however , findings both from his own lab and others have tended to enrich the somewhat simplistic reductionist framework within which the Aplysia findings had earlier been set . |
| 23 | The intention , says D , is to nurture new performers and broaden the scene 's support base : ‘ It 's up to us , the established people , to bring this thing further and then for the next wave to strengthen it even more . ’ |
| 24 | When the leagues go home and away within the next two years these clubs would be left with approximately six Saturdays of rugby per season if excluded . |
| 25 | Committee meetings had taken place at fortnightly intervals ever since early in the nineteenth century , but now , in view of the fact that there was a war on , the local government board asked for the meetings to be held monthly , a suggestion that was accepted with alacrity . |
| 26 | The number of day hospitals run by health services and day centres provided by local authorities and voluntary organizations has grown slowly but steadily over the last forty years , although there remains a great deal of confusion about the purposes of day care , and professionals from different services have differing expectations and aims . |
| 27 | GEORGE Loughlin , of Making Space , will be giving advice on schizophrenia at Ellesmere Port council offices on June 15 between 10am and 3pm in the first of a series of events organised by the Community Health Council . |
| 28 | No , it 's it 's used it 's used in situations where an abbreviation can be made , or er , er , erm , an abstract symbol can be made , but again , this this was used normally in print , even in printing of novels and sermons and erm , and important documents , right up , u you know , up and well into the nineteenth century , before it was considered that that was not formal enough , and that the word and had to be written out formally Are there any words in this section which you ca n't find a modern English version of easily ? |
| 29 | The carer then holds him in the same way as if he was sitting on the side of the bed , with his head resting on her shoulder , and lifts him up and round onto the second chair . |
| 30 | If your weight has gone up and down over the last year ( or ten years ! ) try to remember when and why it was up or down . |