Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] as [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was also a prime mover in the bid to get better pay for West Indian cricketers , putting in much work as the first secretary of the West Indian Players ' Association . |
| 2 | Walpole , who has been traditionally and perhaps wrongly regarded as the first British Prime Minister , always took pains to deny that he occupied such a position . |
| 3 | Rushdie might only just qualify as a Third World novelist . |
| 4 | Lawenham was never the same without him ; by 1568 it paid only half as much tax as Long Melford , compared with two-and-a-half times as much in 1524 , and its place had been usurped by Hadleigh , which had paid only three-fifths of Lavenham 's quota in 1524 , yet now ranked as the third town in Suffolk after Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich . |
| 5 | Well , I was discussing that with Frank last night and he actually pointed out that it might help the sales of the Financial Times because er , er the F T's very often bought as a second newspaper and if you get your first newspaper cheap , you 've got more change in your pocket . |