Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [num ord] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A child was brought in in the last stages of diphtheria . |
| 2 | ‘ I was very lethargic but I just put it down to the first months of my pregnancy . |
| 3 | If they were down to the last dregs of their confidence after their Hillsborough defeat it did not show and it took Kelly 's superb reflexes to deny Newell after only three minutes . |
| 4 | CHESTER 'S tuberculosis scare appears to be over as the first results of tests on 500 children were released yesterday . |
| 5 | Although Ceauşescu continued to receive a daily deluge of congratulatory telegrams from tinpot rulers the world over until the last days of his rule , the reprinting of old praise from the Queen shows how desperate he was to present his people with evidence that he was acceptable to the West . |
| 6 | The garden 's main crops of apples and pears are gathered in late September and through to the first weeks of October . |
| 7 | Eleven papers were given — which dealt with aspects of the history of popular culture from the 16th through to the 20th centuries in areas as diverse as early modern Germany , 19th century Russia and 20th century Mexico and India . |
| 8 | If a pup from the England A team should over-pitch the new ball , then , sure as eggs are eggs , England 's captain will tonk it back past him and set off for the first runs of 1992 . |
| 9 | If a pup from the England A team should over-pitch the new ball , then , sure as eggs are eggs , England 's captain will tonk it back past him and set off for the first runs of 1992 . |
| 10 | It lingers on into the first moments of his wakefulness , leaving him unsure what world he 's really in . |
| 11 | In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting . |
| 12 | Even in the European North many peasants used old flintlocks right up to the first decades of the twentieth century , and in Siberia the use of bows and spears by Russians was not unknown at least as late as the 1830s . |
| 13 | Up to the last years of the eighteenth century , declining levels of employment in agriculture for the wives and daughters of the countryside could have been offset by the taking in of manufacturing work . |
| 14 | Over in Cheltenham , Frank Ford has been watching out for the first signs of winter . |
| 15 | Cos you just pull them out of the first brackets of each one . |
| 16 | But even as her low , husky voice rang out with the first notes of the song , her eyes were seeking out the stranger , unable to resist his strangely magnetic pull . |
| 17 | ‘ Josephinism ’ in religious matters , again , it is now clear , had behind it a long tradition extending back to the first years of the century . |
| 18 | Presumably such militias date back to the last years of the Roman period , although there is no evidence for them in the fifth century . |
| 19 | Some of these pages round off the last bits of The Childhood after he had sent the bulk of it , with Frost 's approval , to Eleanor Farjeon for typing . |