Example sentences of "[noun sg] in the [num] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Look at the bare facts we 've not beaten the scum in the three season we 've been back up and god knows we 've had enough chances in that time . |
2 | I once calculated that I did about a thousand hours ' work in the three years I was there , an average of an hour a day . |
3 | The blast has led to concern that the bank might be forced to decamp to another set of temporary premises — its third resting place in the 18 months it has been in existence — although this now seems unlikely . |
4 | He is going through a dry patch at the moment as he has won only on match in the five tournaments he has played so far this year but I am sure he will work his way back again , he has got it in him . |
5 | More than 2,700 children went through the paediatrics department at Middlesbrough General in the five months she was there . |
6 | A final tip — be sure to take plenty of cash in the three currencies you 'll need . |
7 | In Brisbane , Sri Lanka ground out their highest score in the three Tests they have played against Australia , adding 194 in six hours yesterday to end the third day of the first Test on 275 for six . |
8 | Her successes include winning the 1987 Gosforth Junior Open , the 1988 Tyneside G.C. Girls ' title and selection for the Durham County girls ' team for whom she had a 100 per cent record in the four matches she played . |
9 | This is very much my experience of this organisation in the eight months I 've worked here . |
10 | After winning a third trainer 's title in the 1983–84 season he left Yorkshire and took over as private trainer to Robert Sangster at Manton . |
11 | When taxed about her ‘ bossy ’ or ‘ headmistressy ’ role in the 1983 election she replied : ‘ Yes , I do believe certain things very strongly . |
12 | SEAN KELLY , 36 next month , will find in the 164-mile Tour of Flanders tomorrow that it will not be his age but the rest of the professional ‘ peleton ’ that will make victory in the one classic he has never won practically impossible , writes Phil Liggett . |
13 | Invited the Lord President to take soundings among Government supporters with a view to determining whether it would be possible to persuade those who were in favour of the abolition of capital punishment that in the interests of securing the passage of the Criminal Justice Bill in the 1947–48 Session they should refrain from pressing for this change in the law ; |
14 | Gore was seen to have the advantages of youth , good looks , and increasing political stature — as a candidate in the 1988 contest he did unexpectedly well and had increased his reputation since . |
15 | It seems to me to have been one of the greatest tragedies in the Province in the 27 months I have been Secretary of State . |
16 | Time was suspended and the police heard my life story at least twice with patience and good humour in the 80 minutes it took to cut my right leg free from the car . |
17 | Currently housed in a 36″ tank and shortly to be installed in a 48″ tank , My Piranha , affectionately known as Igor , has lost none of his brilliantly coloured red belly in the four years I have had it . |
18 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |
19 | Getting all this into the tank in the 20 minutes it takes a 50mm ( 2in ) diameter pipe to fill the tank can be physically arduous . |
20 | Then you would know when you saw the chap in the 1984 Cortina he was the company 's worst driver . |
21 | Another time in the 1987 election we were driving along a dual carriageway in Norfolk heading for an airport to meet Mrs Thatcher 's plane and join up with the Battlebus . |
22 | In fact in the 1945 election it fell to the Labour Party — thus history might have been changed . |