Example sentences of "[adv prt] in the [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sociological fantasy that pop musicians could be some sort of organic intellectuals was remarkably stubborn ; it dominated initial left-wing responses to punk , and it was only when the material basis of the fantasy — youth as class — broke down in the late 1970s recession , that different ways of conceiving pop politics began to be attractive . |
| 2 | A goal down in the first 10 minutes . |
| 3 | I like this , its been proved that waiting list have gone down in the last six months |
| 4 | Can i do you want figures on commodities I think quite a lot of us are aware that coffee prices have gone down in the last ten years . |
| 5 | This possibility gradually breaks down in the next two stanzas . |
| 6 | Before the worst was over and the pound began to depreciate again , some twenty per cent of them had gone for ever , and a further ten per cent were so weakened that they too shut down in the next two years . |
| 7 | As long as they come down in the next twenty minutes ! |
| 8 | Everything came through in the first nine months of 1991 so the company was able to trade profitably . |
| 9 | Colleagues I 'd just like to put one of er John 's themes and that is that for the next couple of days we 've got a hell of a lot of business to get through and er we 've done quite well so far but er I would certainly be looking where possible colleagues for formally seconding er , as often as possible , if not all the time and I really appreciate your er your assistance in that regard because we have a great deal of business to get through in the next two days . |
| 10 | Before we reached the BUPA hospital in Paddington , I felt I knew every temperature change Salome had gone through in the past five days , what her grandmother — phoning twice daily from Jamaica — thought about life , the universe and young people driving around in fast cars , and how difficult Frank had found going to the launderette . |
| 11 | I can inform the Secretary of State straight away that there is a much more immediate cause seriously impairing ’ the ability of the Agency to deliver a proper service ’ and that is the swingeing cuts in staff numbers of up to one third in each local office that the Secretary of State has carried through in the past two years under the operational strategy . |
| 12 | ‘ No one knows what I 've been through in the last 12 months , ’ he said . |
| 13 | They have contributed only 39% of what the central government requires them to hand over in the first three months of the year . |
| 14 | The Romanesque was taken over in the last two decades of the nineteenth century , when American railway-station building reached its apogee in masterpieces of creative eclecticism . |
| 15 | The FA will also investigate Dunstable 's bizarre exit from the FA Cup on Saturday when the entire team walked off in their second-round qualifying tie at Staines after having three players sent off in the first 38 minutes . |
| 16 | Under strain for a start because it was technically ill-equipped to avert disaster or to cope with the consequences when disaster struck ; under strain from commercial pressures which , as the inquiry puts it , ‘ compromised ’ safety ; under strain above all because the people on the spot could n't or would n't cope , were weary from gruesome working hours ( the senior signal technician who heads the list of the culpable had had only one day off in the past 13 weeks ) , lacked adequate training , or simply could n't be bothered . |
| 17 | UI reportedly told staff laid off in the last two weeks that it was short of funds , attributing the situation to an accounting error . |
| 18 | Seven meetings have been called off in the last two days , including all three of yesterday 's cards plus three scheduled for today at Carlisle , Taunton and Warwick . |
| 19 | Real Madrid showed too much passion and had two sent off in the last 16 minutes of their UEFA Cup tie at Sigma Olomouc of Czechoslovakia . |
| 20 | Bruce Grobbelaar 's sending off in the last ten minutes in the Moscow first leg ultimately proved decisive . |
| 21 | ‘ It has particularly taken off in the last three years . |
| 22 | From there on , the cherry and whites took complete control and were 10 points up in the first 14 minutes . |
| 23 | But after the relativists ' case is built up in the first two articles , no one has much to say for it , at least not the strong version that splits systems of thought into watertight compartments . |
| 24 | Piper , fighting behind a stiff left jab and a MENSA rating of 153 , backed Benn up in the first two rounds , with hard short rights . |
| 25 | LAST year , when the Dublin Tornadoes played the Belfast Spartans , the Tornadoes went 13–0 up in the first two minutes of the game before the Spartans fought back to win 16–13 . |
| 26 | This year the Tornadoes again went 13–0 up in the first two minutes . |
| 27 | CAPTAIN Will Carling last night told England to sing up and play up in the first 20 minutes or risk Naas Botha wrecking their hopes of winning today 's historic international at Twickenham . |
| 28 | The Diadora League minnows could have been three up in the first 20 minutes . |
| 29 | By the mid-1970s our collective view was that , with a few notable exceptions , Soviet technology was on a distinctly inferior plane to that found in the major Western industrial countries and , moreover , had shown no signs of catching up in the previous 15–20 years . |
| 30 | Such a proposal is now of another era , however , and I was present when an ex-Dean of Academic Studies at the college presented a paper ( Stead 1980 ) attacking the trend to expensive , amalgamated police units which had grown up in the previous two decades . |