Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [noun] of [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That must have happened somewhere about the middle of last century . |
| 2 | I mean I I know in that budget thing that we put together towards the end of last year , we did n't really look at it |
| 3 | It was only towards the end of last year , when the book was going to press and space was tight , that I realised how important a contribution was made not only by my work , but also the work of all the women who had contributed to the Project both nationally and internationally . |
| 4 | It was only with the invention of first the Linotype , then the Monotype machines that mechanized competition really threatened hand-setting . |
| 5 | Her picture and her silk quilt had been carried down below in the chaos of last night and she did not have the energy to seek them out . |
| 6 | About 5 o'clock on the morning of 8th October , 1835 , he was one of a group of men working underground when the rock above them began to ‘ groan and grumble ’ , indicating to the experienced miners that it was settling and about to fall on top of them . |
| 7 | About one o'clock on the morning of 28th August , 1944 , a United States Air Force transport plane , with 20 service personnel on board , crashed on take-off and came down on Berelands Road and Hillside Avenue , Prestwick . |
| 8 | At seven o'clock on the morning of 26th February two men and two women were busy with the morning 's baking . |
| 9 | For mortality , the intensity of selection in a stable population ( r=0 ) remains constant during the pre-reproductive period because the consequences of death for reproductive success remain constant ; selection intensity starts to decline only at the time of first breeding . |
| 10 | I 'd like to put forward the argument that it was by trying to accomodate Cuntona , Wallace and Chappie together at the start of last season that made us a soft touch away from home . |
| 11 | He made his debut five years ago and collected just a handful of caps before stringing a four-match run together at the end of last season . |
| 12 | Many of his radical moves , breaking the BBC down into business units instructed to make money or be closed and buying in services from the private sector if it is cheaper , are either in force or due to be so by the beginning of next month — so if he went they would continue anyway . |
| 13 | The Heathfield trainer commented : ‘ Breakfast Car bashed a leg in his last race and got a bit of heat in it , so we turned him away for the rest of last season . |
| 14 | This appeal to outlaw the military bases of external powers was issued largely for the consumption of Third World countries and the emergent group of non-aligned states . |
| 15 | However , international efforts to halt acid rain pollution ( in part caused by sulphur dioxide ) and to reverse the damage to the ozone layer were expected soon to have an effect , so that overall global warming would increase rapidly from the middle of next century . |
| 16 | Hateley was one of several players banned from Ibrox until yesterday in the wake of last Saturday 's defeat from Celtic that brought to an end Rangers ' run of 44 games without loss . |
| 17 | In my teens I had lived precariously on the lip of first class rugby by virtue of knowing every trick in the canon , evil and otherwise , by being a bad bad loser , but chiefly and perhaps only because I was very nippy off the mark . |
| 18 | Officers arrested him in North London , close to the scene of last year 's Staples Corner blast . |
| 19 | Why was he ( and it must have been him ) so quick in sending off horsemen early on the morning of 19th March to check on the King 's safety ? |
| 20 | ‘ I believe , ’ began Corbett , turning to Selkirk , ‘ that you were sent by Bishop Wishart early on the morning of 19th March to ensure that all was well with the King . |
| 21 | I cry now over accounts of childhood like this , weeping furtively over the reports of nineteenth century commissions of inquiry into child labour , abandoning myself to the luxuriance of grief in libraries , tears staining the pages where Mayhew 's little watercress girl tells her story . |
| 22 | Robert Saxton 's has just been recorded , William Mathias 's was given its premiere in Manchester in January , and those by Dominic Muldowney and Robin Holloway in Liverpool and Manchester respectively at the end of last month . |
| 23 | MIDDLESBROUGH are arranging a three-way inter-track meeting with Brough Park and Sunderland , possibly at the end of next month . |
| 24 | In what are often highly technical arguments where tone matters a lot , he sounds like a politician who would join the ERM as soon as practicable — possibly by the end of next year — just as Sir Geoffrey , Mr Heseltine and Mr Lawson would . |
| 25 | In what are often highly technical arguments where tone matters a lot , he sounds like a politician who would join the ERM as soon as practicable — possibly by the end of next year — just as Sir Geoffrey , Mr Heseltine and Mr Lawson would . |
| 26 | ‘ Arsenal fell so far behind at the start of last season that they could n't catch us , even though they went 17 matches unbeaten towards the end . |
| 27 | Such needs would be met in a new system written today through the use of fourth generation languages and their user-friendly report generators . |
| 28 | The concern in London particularly of course is the incidents of terrorist in of terrorist incidents , and that undoubtedly affected er visitation in London , not just at our places , but in most tourist attractions , particularly towards the end of last year . |
| 29 | Right , I 'm here vir virtually throughout the vacation , erm , I 'll be here until the beginning of next term , so if you are having problems of any sort , or want me to run through something with you , just er , feel free to disturb me . |
| 30 | This is an attractive perk , particularly in the light of last week 's Budget announcement of VAT on fuel and power from April 1994 . |