Example sentences of "[adv prt] [noun] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We give more money to the Common Market budget than we give in aid to the third world . |
| 2 | Meat production in the Soviet Union was down 12% in the first part of this year , while milk production has fallen by 10% . |
| 3 | We were sitting round the newsroom table , mulling over ideas for the next day 's programme . |
| 4 | Business development manager Laszlo Szilvessy forecasts that the company will turn over $1.5m in the first quarter of 1993 , after a disappointing $740,000 in the last three months of 1992 . |
| 5 | And Oxford take on Cambridge in the 119th Varsity Athletics match . |
| 6 | Redcar take on Ripon in the first round of the Yorkshire Cup and Andy Rogers replaces Jim Butcher at prop , while Mike Donoghue returns to the second row . |
| 7 | However , how many times have you seen your ball deviate off course at the last moment due to someone not repairing their pitch mark ? |
| 8 | Eubank looked as though he was going to finish off Thornton in the ninth round — and should have done so in the tenth . |
| 9 | The track index will take up part of the first track of each cylinder . |
| 10 | In the beginning priority was given to those setting up home for the first time , families with young children , and people who had lost their homes and furniture through enemy action . |
| 11 | I will discuss past and likely future trends in households and housing , and give particular attention to the experience of young people setting up home for the first time . |
| 12 | Bob cried as he wandered into the make up room on the first day . |
| 13 | A further six HN Units will go to make up awards in the second group , HNCs . |
| 14 | Compaq Computer Corp took the lead in the European portable personal computer market in the first quarter of 1993 according to Dataquest figures which give Compaq 22% by value and 17.5% by volume , and the manufacturer says that shipments in the period were up 89% on the first quarter of 1992 , growing four times the rate of the market , which expanded 21% — and those figures reveal the reason that Dell Computer Corp has stumbled badly in laptops and notebooks : buyers are going for the higher cost 80486-based machines that abound in Compaq 's line , while Dell 's product emphasises low-price 80386SX-based machines . |
| 15 | I gave up men after the last time . |
| 16 | If you are setting up LIFESPAN for the first time , you should follow the procedures in the order given to ensure a trouble-free installation . |
| 17 | It 's a thankless task then , because despite having become the most successful band of the time , you pick up flak for the next album not working commercially . |
| 18 | It is almost conventional for discussions of localities to miss out experience of the Second World War , although First World War experiences are more commonly considered . |
| 19 | When the £5 million Juventus midfielder leads out England for the first time he will spare a thought for the man who captained England to 1966 World Cup glory , just 48 hours after Bobby Moore revealed that he was battling cancer . |
| 20 | The General Assembly has asked the richer countries to give one per cent of their annual budget to try and wipe out poverty in the third world . |
| 21 | However , the attack has brought back memories of the last battle between rival operators . |
| 22 | However , the attack has brought back memories of the last battle between rival operators . |
| 23 | It also offered well set out objectives on the first page and a good page-by-page summary of activities . |
| 24 | You will , however , get the chance to try out alcohol in the third week of Stage II of the diet . |
| 25 | Buchan fitted the bill perfectly ; he was an experienced , thoughtful player who was always seeking to improve his performance and working out moves for the next game . |
| 26 | Buying out CFCs in the Third World is within the West 's means , but buying out carbon dioxide in China , India , Brazil and the lesser parts of the Third World is certain to prove beyond anyone 's means . |
| 27 | For Leconte , who only four months earlier had undergone back surgery for the third time in little more than two years , it had seen the re-birth of what was — and can be again — a gloriously entertaining , as well as effective , career . |
| 28 | The County Union is looking into the Boyce Hill boy 's absence and Lockwood will wait for the outcome before he names the squad to take on Hertfordshire in the second match in July . |