Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most cases occurred in the first 48 hours of detention ( until July 1988 Austrian law allowed detainees to be held incommunicado for 48 hours ) . |
| 2 | If " adornment " is to be identified in linguistic patterns which have no semantic utility , we can point to the alliterations clustered in the last few lines . |
| 3 | It was a slow-going mile , but towards the end one could hear occasional cars along the road ahead and Gareth and Coconut with whoops crashed through the last few yards , again , as the week before , relieved to be back in the space age . |
| 4 | Two of the goals came in the last two minutes . |
| 5 | this match will go down in the records as a runaway victory for United but all the goals came in the last ten minutes … |
| 6 | It has been shown , for example , that levels of violence during industrial disputes fell in the first three-quarters of this century , but that this trend has been reversed more recently ( Geary , 1985 ) . |
| 7 | A third of a million Frenchmen died in the first five months … |
| 8 | It was in 1851 that the Great Northern Railway established its locomotive works in Doncaster , and twelve years later the amalgamation of a number of railway companies led to the first regional monopoly , the North Eastern Railway , this business being engineered mainly by George Hudson , the ‘ Railway King ’ . |
| 9 | State socialism has not been very successful in transferring technology between countries , and has brought its own kind of exploitation ( as the Yugoslavs discovered in the first few years after the war ) . |
| 10 | The number of gold articles hallmarked in the first three months of this year fell by 12 per cent compared with the same period last year , according to the Assay offices . |
| 11 | From local origins — Station KDKA in Pittsburgh — the transmission of radio broadcasts grew to the first national network , the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ) of 1926 , closely followed by the Columbia Broadcasting Company ( CBC ) in 1927 . |
| 12 | For example , in 1979 nearly half of all divorces occurred within the first 10 years . |
| 13 | We have still to mention the following , whose contributions arrived after the last published list : Pete Silverton , Pat O'Neill , M How , Brad Hatton , W McColl and William Gibson . |
| 14 | Most of the material is injected in the form of dykes which do n't reach the surface , and it 's been estimated that the total thickness of dykes intruded in the last ninety million years is over 400 kilometres ! |
| 15 | The independence of the people 's committees was not ultimately compatible with communist rule in north Korea and problems occurred in the first few months of communist dominance . |
| 16 | So many things happened over the last two rounds , it 's sometimes hard to remember the first two ; I just know it was Trevino versus Jacklin again in the third round and , of course , they were playing together once more . |
| 17 | In 1941 , the French Police cooperated in the first mass internments on French soil . |
| 18 | The figures show that the number of pollution incidents rose for the fifth successive year and have doubled since 1985 . |
| 19 | Most complications occurred with the first few procedures when the technique was being developed . |
| 20 | They always had to do them on Boxing Day , so that the letters went into the first possible post after Christmas . |
| 21 | The heyday of the railways coincided with the last great age of monarchy . |