Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Domestic exports performed badly during the first half of 1990 , but growth in the re-export trade partly compensated . |
| 2 | On about the last trip of the night-shift , around dawn , the EMU on which he was working was approaching Kirkhill , the terminal of that particular service . |
| 3 | Yes , I 'm sure he 's a very very happy man tonight , he 's been looking forward to this game tremendously for the last couple of weeks . |
| 4 | It shows that Essex , grouped as part of the Home counties , will see job prospects changing little for the second quarter of 1993 . |
| 5 | Sterland came on for the last half-hour of this week 's 3-0 reserve team win over Manchester City at Maine Road , and yesterday declared : ‘ It went brilliantly . |
| 6 | Researchers always warn ‘ beginner ’ researchers of the dangers of being tempted into data analysis prematurely , eg as the first flow of questionnaires returning slows . |
| 7 | All through the first part of the interview — the crazy part , when she had been talking about seeing her son in the house — Hank had been telling the straight truth . |
| 8 | On the other side of the energy account book is the surface energy , 2 G.l , which is needed to form the new surfaces and clearly this increases only as the first power of the depth of the crack . |
| 9 | In contrast , at times Durie looked ready to scream , especially when the errors started creeping in during the second set of her 6-2 , 7-6 win over the promising Yayuk Basuki . |
| 10 | Almost 2,000 knives and other blades have been handed in during the first fortnight of the month-long amnesty . |
| 11 | Although the authorities in the UK have sought to control interest rates by their operations in the discount market , this relates much more to Figure 18.4 than Figure 18.5 , especially during the first part of the 1980s . |
| 12 | Later they were supplied by specialist brickmakers whose numbers increased greatly during the last quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | One of the original group , Crest Homes , has now decided to go it alone for the first stage of the project . |
| 14 | The final component of the system is a new management tool , the OpenServer Remote Manager ( list price £2,650 ) , which works in conjunction with an OpenServer Management Agent that is to be added to the OpenServer 400 family : it is initially to be incorporated onto the Unix version ( expected at the end of the month ) , with MS-DOS and OS/2 versions following along during the second quarter of the year . |
| 15 | It is hard to disappoint someone who may have come in as a last port of call when all other channels to sort out their problems seem closed . |
| 16 | Bill Clinton swept in as the 42nd president of the United States with a landslide victory and the promise of a new beginning . |
| 17 | The research by Yorkshire TV paid off last Sunday when 18 million tuned in for the first episode of A Touch of Frost . |
| 18 | I think I 'm gon na try and persuade my Mum to let me bring my camera in for the last day of term , I 'm gon na get a bottle of from the shop that 's on . |
| 19 | Europe disappeared from the political imagination for the duration , not merely during the last month of the campaign , but during a large part of the long and tedious pre-campaign . |
| 20 | Certainly , the appearance and spreading of turbulent spots , described below as the last stages of transition , are commonly observed in uncontrolled transition ( e.g. Fig. 17.18 ) . |
| 21 | So Frances and Mrs Malloy — four grown-up children and seven grandchildren — danced together for the last couple of hours . |
| 22 | Commander Fairley saw at once the wisdom of keeping the two children of his first marriage together for the last years of their progress to maturity . |
| 23 | Anna Freud ( 1943 , 1960 ) , who had been one of the first to call attention to the emotional difficulties of small children separated from their mothers , attacked from yet another angle , affirming the emotional need , not only in the baby but in his mother , to be together during the first weeks of the child 's life , and criticizing maternity hospital practice that separated the two . |
| 24 | The oral phase occurs in about the first year of a child 's life . |
| 25 | Only in about the last quarter of the century did colour printing , in the form of chromolithographs , become at all usual ; and for expensive books , hand-colouring remained the norm well into the twentieth century . |
| 26 | The official results in these first multiparty local elections since the Second World War were finally announced on Aug. 13 , apparently after a second round of voting on Aug. 2 to decide close-run elections in 18 of Albania 's 42 municipalities and 97 of its 304 communes . |
| 27 | For example , in Britain , a ‘ stillbirth ’ is defined to take place only after the 28th week of pregnancy ; in the USA , the borderline is the 20th week . |
| 28 | ( It is medically thought that only after the 28th week of pregnancy that the foetus has a separate existence from that of its mother ) . |
| 29 | However , climbing sports differ from true climbers in that invariably they do not bloom until the second year wood , and then only on side shoots , and seldom repeat much after the first burst of bloom during June . |
| 30 | Either through this , or through their exercise of coercive powers , the great landed nobility were able to minimize damage to their incomes in the first twenty years or so after the first onset of the plague . |