Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adv] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not the first or perhaps even the second time a Darkfall may have occurred here . |
| 2 | It was the eleventh or perhaps only the tenth time I had fallen that morning . |
| 3 | In the next three hours they heard and saw nothing ashore before setting up the signal light and infrared beam at 0015 that Sunday morning : an hour or so later the first craft — carrying the Rangers — came past , some 10 minutes late . |
| 4 | Suddenly the sequence was interrupted by a crash , an oath and an answering oath , under cover of which Amiss began to climb silently and wearily up the next staircase . |
| 5 | After rising and saying his prayers , the poet should retire to his study and … engage in the study of the ancillary sciences : lexicography , metrics and so forth The second quarter of the day should be devoted to poetic composition … |
| 6 | There you were , come to save our pathetic little radio station , and just about the first thing you did was scoop that concert in Harare , and at the height of the cultural boycott , because you 'd emphasised our independent nature . |
| 7 | Also , when unc is reached , this gives the last row of R and hence also the last column , so that the eighth elements in unc can be written down , and so on . |
| 8 | As my son has again won great honour by his composition of the dramatic serenata , he has been asked to write the first opera for the coming carnival in Milan and immediately afterwards the second opera for the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice [ this second commission was never , in fact , carried out ] … |
| 9 | Because he did a programme actually on the B B C called the ‘ Vermarkt Hour ’ , which was beamed at German troops , and then possibly the third phase was the possibly the psychological warfare . |
| 10 | McLean is not the first bouncer to have been tried for Murder and certainly not the first bouncer to have been up on charges of serious violence . |
| 11 | I mean , sorry , week er thirteen that er base six had been poured and therefore so the first thing we did was to get base six as soon as possible . |