Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [be] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally it is of the second magnitude , just about equal to the Pole Star , but every 2½ days it gives a long , slow wink , taking four hours to fade down below the third magnitude and remaining at minimum for a mere 20 minutes before starting to recover — after which nothing more happens for the next 2½ days . |
| 2 | Hammond was looking down , his shoulders hunched forward , as if he knew already what was in the second file . |
| 3 | Now I 'm in the sixth form and I can wear anything I like , it 's great . |
| 4 | I mean er now we 're in the second flow of them being emptied again , so I do n't know what 's gon na happen for the future . |
| 5 | Coventry used to be one of the best teams in England … they 've won the cup twice … now they 're in the second division and they had a hard time on saturday … five penalty kicks saw them through … with three tries … none of which were that dazzling … it was Hereford who entertained … their last try was something special something to remember … |
| 6 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 7 | ‘ Ten years ago I was in the tenth grade , my second year in high school . |
| 8 | Well she 's on the second balcony under in the centre under the top you know where the she 's said it 's great in the back there . |
| 9 | There are women miners here who were among the first to be laid off when Pittston sacked 4,000 of its 6,000 unionised miners in the early Eighties . |
| 10 | Not surprisingly they were among the first fossils to attract widespread attention . |
| 11 | Well it 's on the second of Jan July . |
| 12 | Well it was for the next two years . |
| 13 | Yet simultaneously and apparently paradoxically it was during the nineteenth century that the debate about sexuality exploded . |
| 14 | There they were on the first , belated , league Saturday of the season , celebrating their arrival in the first division , unveiling new-look Sunbury as a showpiece of healthy ambition and running Bath so close that the perennial might of the champions was instantly called into question . |