Example sentences of "[adv] it [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Well it 's on the second of Jan July . |
| 4 | Well it was for the next two years . |
| 5 | Yet simultaneously and apparently paradoxically it was during the nineteenth century that the debate about sexuality exploded . |