Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shearer returns to The Dell for Blackburn tomorrow for the first time since his £3.6 million transfer in the summer , anxious to make life even more uneasy for Branfoot . |
| 2 | In addition to Cardinal , Szabo , Jackart , Charron , Woods and Lougheed , the capped players in the 22-strong party are outside-half Bob Ross and lock Ian Gordon , a replacement for Charron late in the second half for last year 's famous win over Scotland . |
| 3 | There , in this country , more so than any other country in Europe , there 's a tradition of adults abusing children quite legitimately as well in the form of beating them and erm indeed headmasters of Eton back in the eighteenth and nineteenth century were often selected , not because of their scholarly ability , but because of their size and strength . |
| 4 | These restrictions on testation had disappeared over the greater part of England early in the fourteenth century , but they survived in the province of York till 1692 , in Wales till 1696 , and in London till 1724 . |
| 5 | Since enamelling was taken over by the west to produce jewels like that which tradition claims was presented to his foundation , New College , Oxford , by William of Wykeham early in the fourteenth century ( fig. 29 ) , enamel has held its own in the embellishment of symbols of high achievement . |
| 6 | Leave Market Square and go south down ‘ The Drapery ’ — the name derived from the congregation of Drapers there in the 18th and 19th Centuries . |
| 7 | So I mean if you were to finish on the thirty first of August then on the first of September . |
| 8 | Acquisition of the Macedonian mines in the mid-second century B.C. brought in further notable gold resources and these were still further enlarged by Trajan 's conquest of Dacia early in the second century A.D. |
| 9 | The dominance of Lully in Jacques 's musical life might seem unusual since he was only 14 years old when Lully died , but it reflects the continued interest in Lully 's music throughout Europe well into the 18th century . |
| 10 | The mace , or goedendag , was a weapon used throughout Europe up to the sixteenth century . |
| 11 | Partick 's troubles were added to when Grant Tierney had to be stretchered off after an accidental clash of heads with Mitchell early in the second half . |
| 12 | In Germany just after the First World War , for example , working class organisations were so far removed from both the objective interests of the class and the concern of its members that they were incapable of seizing the revolutionary opportunities open to them . |
| 13 | It had very considerable influence in Germany up to the First World War , and also , in somewhat diluted form , in both Britain and America ( see chapter 6 ) . |
| 14 | At Antioch in Syria late in the fourth century , the number of destitute persons being fed by the church had reached 3,000 . |
| 15 | Threshing machinery was driven by horse-wheel when mechanical threshing was introduced from Scotland late in the eighteenth century with the development of the threshing drum , to relieve men from the real hard labour of threshing with flails , although in areas where the straw was required for thatching , hand-threshing continued long after the appearance of machinery . |
| 16 | Right the situation in Maastricht up till the nineteenth century was that It was described as a di- or tri-glossic erm linguistic community . |
| 17 | had staged the epochal exhibition ‘ Manet and the Post-Impressionists ’ at the Grafton Gallery , when the work of Paul Cézanne , Gauguin , and Vincent Van Gogh was seen in England virtually for the first time . |
| 18 | Set in Austria just before the First World War the play revolves around Josephea , proprietress of the inn ; Leopold , the head waiter ; several well-to-do local businessmen and the Emperor of Austria who comes to stay at the Inn at the start of the shooting season . |
| 19 | The company actually sold five million dollars worth of ‘ green ’ products in Ontario alone during the first month . |
| 20 | The main , Western tradition began only in about 600BC in Asia Minor and spread to cover most of Europe , the Mediterranean world and Asia as far as India ; a separate Eastern tradition came into being in China in about the sixth century BC . |
| 21 | Approved by the government were members of the Orthodox clergy who began to establish a parish and diocesan network in Siberia early in the seventeenth century . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , the male line continued to thrive and two strong branches continued the family name in Myddle well into the eighteenth century . |
| 23 | This explains very clearly why Matilda is far and away the most popular children 's book I have written and was bought by over half a million children in Britain alone in the first six months . |
| 24 | She was brought up in France just before the Second World War , but as an adolescent she was sent to spend a year with relatives in Germany where she was forced to remain when fighting broke out . |
| 25 | Radio started in Europe shortly after the First World War , and the BBC began broadcasting in 1922 . |
| 26 | Written by Richards while he was working in Cairo shortly after the Second World War , these sentences form one of the most delightful , and distinctive , opening passages to any book published this century . |
| 27 | The last great bustard disappeared from Britain early in the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | They were slaves in Anglo-Saxon England and survived in Italy well into the nineteenth century , singing castrato roles in opera as well as in the Vatican Sistine choir . |
| 29 | Congressional deputies from Brazil , Colombia , Costa Rica , Cuba , Ecuador , Mexico , Panama and Peru , who ( together with the United States ) were in Quito primarily for the third inter-parliamentary meeting on money laundering , agreed on Feb. 19 to form a Latin American Inter-Parliamentary Group for the Prevention of Drug Abuse ( Grilapad ) . |
| 30 | The following example of horse jading happened in Suffolk just after the First World War . |