Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Piers asked when the two figures had melted away into the crowds . |
| 2 | Most studies used either the 17 question or the 21 question instrument , although other versions were occasionally used . |
| 3 | The majority of farm servants stayed only the one year with their master after the annual hiring , but they moved only into the service of other farmers drawing labour from the same hiring fair . |
| 4 | Sixteen races made up the 1986 championship . |
| 5 | Teesside magistrates heard how the two Middlesbrough men used an electronic tagging device to track a terrier as it bore down on badgers in a well known sett . |