Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was clearly an increase in population from probably the ninth and tenth centuries right through to the troubled fourteenth century , but there are several ways in which extra people can be fed and accommodated on the land . |
| 2 | The quiet period starts on the eighteenth of May and it goes right through until the twenty first of June . |
| 3 | Right through from the mid sixteenth century to the end of the seventeenth one of these families was always recorded as Bonner alias Pitt , a continuity in the use of a double-barrelled surname that Dr Prior thinks suggests a certain family pride . |
| 4 | Phil Clarke , Andy Platt , Martin Dermott , Steve Hampson and Jason Robinson are already out of the televised first round encounter , while Joe Lydon is struggling with a twisted ankle . |
| 5 | ‘ The only true part of the old story is that a meteorite hit that hill way back in the late nineteenth century and dug a damn big crater there . ’ |
| 6 | Right up to the late 19th century , archaeologists were more interested in the progress of civilisation as displayed in the fine arts . |
| 7 | I mean I 've only got some figures here up to the twenty fourth of February , and in that particular week we sold about thirteen and a half thousand U K holidays , as against the week last year of about five and a half , so we 've obviously seen a fairly major growth in U K holidays , but , as I said , we spent about a hundred thousand pounds on promotion , so we 're very pleased with the uptake of business coming in . |