Example sentences of "[conj] in the [num] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh absolutely , yes I 'm not arguing about that , and as I said , heaven forbid that should happen , erm another point I did pick up from one report was that in the eight years war , and you 're quite right , the Iraqis are battle hardened , but the Iranian air force apparently could n't bomb Iraq to any great consequence except for the first few weeks of the conflict . |
| 2 | Taught you that in the three times table fourteen does n't come after twelve . |
| 3 | On the field , the recurring problem was the inability to turn critical periods to advantage : never more obvious than in the 1990–91 Ashes series : this in a decade when failure , far from being excused , was despised , claim Scott and Cook in the most questionable of their conclusions . |
| 4 | The staff were also much more formally dressed than in the three humanities departments . |
| 5 | Its 20 staff support two distributors and 11 resellers across Ireland and in the six counties north of the border which make up Northern Ireland . |
| 6 | Pisa fought Genoa for control of Mediterranean trade , Florence fought Siena for control of the trade route to Rome , and in the Ten Years War ( 1118–1127 ) , Milan fought the city of Como for control of Lombardy . |
| 7 | Because in the four days Doyle and me were following Latowa , he and Charlie only met twice — once for about thirty seconds , probably just to say hello , and then to go to the Cambridge Hotel . ’ |