Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [adv] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Official figures for manufacturing show a capital stock that increased gently but persistently throughout the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 2 | Well it 's been a discussion — if we can put it that way that 's been going on more or less throughout the nineteen eighties |
| 3 | He writes clearly and lightheartedly about the 100 best rivers and gives his expert advice on how to navigate their reaches . |
| 4 | farther east , Russian campaigns against the Buryats around the southern end of Lake Baikal went on from the 1630s to the 1680s , causing great turmoil as some Buryat and Mongol tribes withdrew to Mongolia , or were buffeted back and forward between the two aggressive empires . |
| 5 | I was trying to communicate between David and Tony , trying to get them to talk to each other , and as a result was going back and forth between the two of them which was a very frustrating experience , added to which I was tired from being on the road and I was very unhappy . |
| 6 | They were busy packing a basket with the things that Sigarup would need , talking quietly , moving back and forth between the two rooms : collecting blankets , cooking pots , a bag of wheat flour , salt and chilli , the cotton tarpaulin that they stretched across upright sticks to make a tent . |
| 7 | In between these two extremes comes the large mass of honourable and intelligent outdoor enthusiasts who listen to the frothings and bayings back and forth between the two factions with alarm , but without the detailed information from both sides which would enable them freely and democratically to make up their own minds , and if necessary bring their concerted pressure to bear on one side or the other to desist . |
| 8 | He had been drifting back and forth between the two ever since . |
| 9 | Actually , it 's a very pleasant way to work — I 've set up one room for word processing and another for screenshot manipulation , so I can switch back and forth between the two whilst I 'm writing captions . |
| 10 | There is a suspicion that here and there among the 20 or so items requested the editor 's leg has been mildly pulled . |
| 11 | Rather it was one more step in the step by step approach to the reform of both local government and the politics and values of British society , which has been followed through consistently and vigorously throughout the 1980s . |
| 12 | Erm yeah , I 've got to put it under there and then with the twenty . |
| 13 | It was rapping in my back as I was pushed past Roger Beeding and Roger de Mornay and closer and closer to the eight steps that led up to the low wooden platform on which was the gigantic cross and the large black-and-white photograph of Rose Fox . |