Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For me , a highlight of this time was a weekend visit from a college friend , whom I 've only seen once in the forty-three years since we left college . |
| 2 | Morrissey 's ‘ Englishness ’ is somewhat ironic when you consider that his parents and his entire extended family only arrived here during the '50s . |
| 3 | She had not altered overmuch in the twelve months since she was covering cars with eggs and flour and ringing doorbells with her giggling friends . |
| 4 | This is easily done if the point cams are not placed exactly in the 24 stitch placings . |
| 5 | The North-East 100 and 200 metres champion won the long jump with a leap of 5.65 metres and was prevented from completing a sprint double when City of Hull 's Karen Buck just got home in the 100 metres . |
| 6 | While economic statistics are more up-to-date and therefore more relevant , they are not used regularly by the three departments because they are not specific enough . |
| 7 | The number of women representatives had not increased dramatically over the 50 years since women first gained the vote on equal terms with men . |
| 8 | In an intervention , the hon. Member for Hammersmith tried to suggest that housing association output had not increased greatly since the 1970s . |
| 9 | The question of merging the two clubs has already arisen twice in the three years since Redbridge became tenants at Victoria Road . |
| 10 | Furthermore , OPEC would almost certainly have been unable to sustain massively higher prices in the context of the subsequent crash had US policy towards oil imports not changed dramatically in the seventies . |
| 11 | Later surveys of voluntary work have produced varied results ( Halfpenny , 1990 ) , but it seems that about three in ten adults undertook voluntary work on behalf of an organisation in 1990 , a figure that had not changed much throughout the 1980s . |
| 12 | The role of the scientific journal has not changed much in the 300 years since the first was published , although greater dependence is placed on it than ever before , according to Osburn[000] . |
| 13 | The role of the scientific journal has not changed much in the 300 years since the publication of the first such journal , although greater dependence is placed on it than ever before , according to Osburn . |
| 14 | I think it 's the worse example of pure political self-indulgence that I have ever come across in the eight ye nearly eight years on this Council |
| 15 | The question arises , however , as to why clubs rapidly expanded nationally throughout the 1880s and 1890s . |
| 16 | if we can keep up with that kind of play — and — get those goals we will do OK. im still worried both with the back-five and the attackers — against better oppositon or away things — might — not look as good as on monday . |
| 17 | Dating since prehistoric times people still lived here until the 1960s . |
| 18 | Couples with children also fared badly during the 1980s , but their risk of poverty still remains much lower than that of lone parents ( 18 per cent in 1988 , up from 9 per cent in 1979 ) . |
| 19 | The two Flemish groups , the separatist Vlaams Bloc and the " ultra-liberal " ROSSEM , which had both performed well in the 1991 elections , were not invited to participate . |
| 20 | ‘ Mills was thoroughly investigated once in the fifties , once in the sixties- ’ |
| 21 | Despite view to the contrary ( Tuxen , 1959 ) , this entognathous condition has probably evolved independently in the three groups concerned ( Manton , 1964 . ) |
| 22 | Many lines of thought were eventually brought together in the 454 folio pages of Bishop Wilkins 's Essay Towards a Real Character and Philosophical Language , which Slaughter deems a monument to that time ‘ when western Europe entered upon the early modern period of its specialised scientific and technical development ’ . |
| 23 | As it is , he will have to fight for every freedom supposedly guaranteed already in the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration . |
| 24 | Fusion funding remains steady , but with the money now divided mostly between the two leading machines , the tokamak and mirror-fusion . |
| 25 | The antihistamines , which became well known late in the 1940s ( see Chapter 12 ) , turned out to have several properties which would not have been predicted from what was known about histamine . |
| 26 | As far as I remember , the wearing of pyjamas is n't mentioned anywhere in the Ten Commandments , is it ? ’ |
| 27 | Burroughs 's influence on left-field rock culture is , of course , incalculable and , like some seedy literary Camelot , Tangier has had a mythical significance to Beat Generation acolytes since he , Jack Kerouac , Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso briefly congregated there in the Fifties , in the vicinity of the great Paul Bowles . |
| 28 | Thus in the polymerase chain reaction DNA is essentially copied only between the two primers . |
| 29 | Russian writers actually lived simultaneously in the two worlds — the ancient communalism of the peasantry , which so many of them knew from the long summers on their seignorial estates , and the world of the westernised and much-travelled intellectual . |