Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [adv] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | But young couples are often surprised , even shocked , by the ferocity of the rows that can suddenly blow up in the first year or two of marriage . |
2 | They 'll all come off in the first wash . |
3 | ( A couple of drunks do eventually square up in the third base bleachers , but by Stamford Bridge standards it is almost a mating ritual ) . |
4 | His side were not particularly inept on Saturday they were beaten by a side who would probably survive comfortably in the Second Division . |
5 | But its overall role as a credible world community of faith and love , a body that can be ignored by no one , a living tradition that combines humanity and the most sophisticated rational understanding with divinity and mystical insight , will simply dwindle away in the twenty-first century , leaving the Church as a narrowing fellowship upon the margins of history . |
6 | But the ratio would then fall sharply in the second and third decades of the twenty-first century . |