Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] and [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The process repeats itself in the second test-tube and then a drop is removed and used to seed the third test-tube , and so on . |
| 2 | We had failed to discover a third or even fourth hole and still the water was rising . |
| 3 | The principal carers were to be interviewed on two occasions , firstly at or around the time of the sufferer 's first interview and secondly a year later . |
| 4 | She stopped and listened , and heard first laughter and then a voice shouting , ‘ For God 's sake . ’ |
| 5 | Davidson , who was used to him , did not take this seriously , and rightly so , for Baldwin 's next railway activity was to leave Chequers early on the Tuesday morning in order to catch the 8.55 from Wendover and be available to see first Stamfordham and then the King . |
| 6 | Parasitaemia on thick blood films and symptoms were recorded daily for the first week and subsequently every week until 28 days after therapy . |
| 7 | To the early Bolshevik leaders it seemed only a matter of months , if not days , before first Europe and later the rest of the world joined the Soviet and other socialist states . |
| 8 | we could do the first bits and about an hour really , this weekend not at work or anything . |
| 9 | ‘ I think if I had the confidence of 2 or 3 years ago I would have won the 2nd set and probably the match , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Yes well it 's possible that er Alan may see a way to using that but he is quite ni , I mean he he 's got no doubts he wants to come to me he 's in a divorce at the moment and the moment that the final papers are signed , he 's got to get out of the house he has to stay there till the last minute and then the moment that the papers are signed , he must go . |
| 11 | But that charge was thrown out at Gloucester Crown Court last month and now the prosecution has dropped a further assault charge . |
| 12 | Habitat , once Wallingford 's largest employer made staff redundant last year and now the town 's largest employer is the local supermarket . |
| 13 | Lawrence Stone has put forward a highly influential argument that the eighteenth century saw the rise of the companionate marriage , and that affection between husband and wife was for the first time widely judged as important as economic considerations in marriage This argument has been widely challenged in relation to all classes by historians examining various kinds of evidence from the seventeenth century and earlier The belief that affection as an ideal of marriage was basically invented by the middle and upper classes in the eighteenth century has , however , led some critics into simplistic views . |
| 14 | No matter that the poll tax bills will still arrive , bigger and nastier than ever next year and probably the year afterwards . |
| 15 | Many local authorities are issuing court summonses and spending much time and money trying to persuade them that the poll tax has not been abolished and that it will be with us next year and possibly the year after . |
| 16 | In such situations the equation is not the same in the case of the confidant and that of the third party and accordingly the result may be different . |