Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it was the same in the second half … the save of the game stopped an equaliser from Joey Beauchamp … and after that well the United players just had to accept it was n't going to be their day … |
| 2 | But it 's not enough to play like that once every ten weeks . ’ |
| 3 | This butterfly only migrates there in flocks like this once every four years . |
| 4 | An example on English provincial home ground of the type of short-cut activity imported into Ulster was the planting of drugs by policemen in Liverpool which was exposed by Radio Merseyside in 1971 only a few months before the imposition of ‘ direct rule ’ . |
| 5 | Yellow eels have been caught in a Scandinavian estuary , tagged and released in another over a hundred miles away . |
| 6 | Schools would become safer and quieter places , and parents would know that from fourteen onwards the remaining pupils would be specializing for their GCSE and A-level examinations . |
| 7 | Each female lives for about ten years and produces in all about a million eggs . |
| 8 | By the time he retired in 1914 nearly a million men , women , and children had held membership , often briefly . |
| 9 | From 1205 onwards the main outlines of Eustace 's career can be followed in the records of the English government as well as in the biography . |
| 10 | From 1851 onwards the recorded ages were supposed to be accurate and the precise places of birth were noted . |
| 11 | In 1990 nearly a million homes were burgled , almost 20% up on the previous year . |
| 12 | If set to ALL then the following activities are automatically recorded in the QAO log . |
| 13 | Since 1989 nearly a million summonses have been issued to people who could not pay their water bills . |
| 14 | What Bourdieu has in mind here is clearly not at all primarily the classificatory struggles concerning types of symbolic goods that form so much of the subject matter of Distinction ( cf. also Un art moyen ) . |
| 15 | At nine o'clock the Dutch troops still waited . |
| 16 | At 6.00 p.m. the local police station was attacked with petrol bombs , and during the next eight hours large numbers of people , both black and white , took part in burning and looting which caused damage estimated at £3 million . |
| 17 | integrifolia and the heather Cassiope tetragona ; these grow at most only a few centimetres high , forming thin stands that barely cover the ground . |
| 18 | However , one local authority should not receive double the amount of grant received by another only a few miles away for the provision of exactly the same level of service , which is the case at the moment . |
| 19 | The most important point , however , that emerged from Hartner 's investigation was that by 503 BC the Babylonian astronomer-priests had discovered that the tropical year ( the year of the seasons ) is not of exactly the same length as the sidereal year ( the ‘ true ’ astronomical year ) . |
| 20 | By 5.30 pm the last barrowloads of whindust were laid and rolled and the job was done , apart from one set of bollards ( to stop vehicles ) which had still to be erected , and some tidying up of site . |