Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm trying to find out what sort of emotional state your daughter has been in over the past six months . |
| 2 | With regard to the flats I mean , one o erm the flats have been up since the late sixties and erm now they 're gon na be coming down . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly . |
| 4 | Since I 've understood what management was about — I suppose that must have been back in the early 1950s — I 've had the philosophy that if I go into a job I must do it better than the bloke who 's been doing it before me . |
| 5 | The man had n't been out of the top four since 1980 but he did n't have the luck to win a title — in ‘ 86 he lost the crown when his helmet strap came undone . |
| 6 | Tim , who has never been out of the top two in the competition in the last six years , then went on to clinch an exciting final by a narrow margin . |
| 7 | Although direct debits and cash dispenser machines had been around since the late 1960s , promotion campaigns made them farmore popular during the mid-1980s . |
| 8 | The few managers of nursing who were around in the late 1960s , early 1970s will not wish to relive those experiences and yet unless alternative solutions are found quickly , the problem which prevailed then will soon be upon us again . |
| 9 | Marjorie Bousfield was up against the national fours championship rink and lost 17–28 , Dulcie Harbin lost 25–14 , while Pearl Wright , after drawing 9–9 at ten ends , went 22–15 . |
| 10 | That was back in the early sixties . |
| 11 | That was back in the early 1600s and things had been improving gradually ever since . |
| 12 | No one who was around in the late 1960s can have avoided the flood of changes which swept through the dress , sexual codes , language , food styles , cinema , literature , music , and other generative aspects of the new counter-culture . |