Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The staff was then only 65. later in the year the Company was moved to Hanworth and located on the stock-market . |
2 | There are remarkably few active volcanoes in the centres of continents — none at all in South or North America , away from the Andean-Rockies mountain belt , none in central Asia , none in Australia , and only one away from the coast in Antarctica . |
3 | It is only two o'clock in the afternoon and already me and the boys have had more beer , sex , drugs and Nintendo than you 'll have all year , you sad f— ! |
4 | Turnover figures were among the lowest of the year with just 578 million shares changing hands and the FT-SE 100-Share Index closed just 6.5 better on the day at 2,922.4 . |
5 | I ju , it , you see I 'll , I work until the end nearly eleven o'clock in the day to yo , to work start work today like on the art . |
6 | ‘ You know it 's nearly five o'clock in the afternoon , do n't you ? ’ |
7 | It was nearly five o'clock by the time she made it back up to the house , which was thankfully empty . |
8 | It was nearly two o'clock in the morning . |
9 | It was only after we had settled in and had sorted out our luggage that we realised that although it was still broad daylight , our watches told us that it was nearly two o'clock in the morning ! |
10 | It took him till nearly four o'clock in the morning . |
11 | Not at nearly seven o'clock in the garden of the Ferret and Firkin . |
12 | At about eight o'clock on the evening of 28 July , the Prince , disguised as Betty Burke and wearing a ‘ flower 'd linen apron gown ’ , escaped from the Benbecula rowed by six strong men and accompanied by Flora Macdonald and faithful Neil MacEachan . |
13 | About eight o'clock in the evening he was summoned to her bedside . |
14 | He returned home about eight o'clock in the evening , feeling absolutely exhausted , and as he said , all he wanted to do was go to sleep . |
15 | I think about eight o'clock in the evening at home . |
16 | ‘ You were standing outside the University gates at about eight o'clock in the morning , last Wednesday . ’ |
17 | Well when I was down at the er council that May , I told them there and then that er I 'm prepared to er let one of the council men come to our house , about eight o'clock in the morning , and then stop till ten and then come back again about two and wait till they come home from school which they would n't have come home from school , but they go across the road and come back again , double back as if they 'd been to school |
18 | About eight o'clock in the morning I would get up put on jodhpurs , shirt , tie and jeans and a jumper to protect my riding clothes . |
19 | I used to go off about eight o'clock in the morning . |
20 | She used to go out er about eight o'clock in the morning , Tuesday mornings , not Wednesday , cos we had a boy then , we used to call him Frank . |
21 | Coleridge himself long believed that he was born on 20 October , but his father , with a clergyman 's attention to such matters , recorded in the parish register that the true date was 21 October ‘ about eleven o'clock in the forenoon ’ . |
22 | They can not get to sleep until about 2 o'clock in the morning or later , even when they go to bed much earlier . |
23 | At about 2 o'clock in the morning of Monday we were awakened by terrific shouting in the street and , when we looked out , the sky was just a red glow . |
24 | By contrast , even if we manage to get to sleep at about 10 o'clock in the morning the sleep is likely to be shorter and broken . |
25 | About six o'clock in the evening I think it was . |
26 | Smith on the station , well , that involved a paper round starting round about six o'clock in the morning . |
27 | Up there about six o'clock in the morning , ad we managed to get him out them . |
28 | It does n't get light until about six o'clock in the morning and it gets dark |
29 | But it was now three o'clock in the morning and the debate was quickly wound up with the money being voted for the site and foundations . |
30 | At about three o'clock in the afternoon , I was standing at the door of the inn when I saw a blind man coming along the road . |