Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun pl] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We played our match on level terms , with Sally having the advantage of playing from the ladies ' tees , which can be anything up to forty or fifty yards ahead of the men 's . |
| 2 | Special drills have been developed with heavy discs or modified rotovators instead of the usual light coulters . |
| 3 | It appeared that the naval guns , about five or six miles back in the English Channel , were either trying to break another German attack or were just shelling the enemy positions ! |
| 4 | You may not want to walk down lonely streets or dark paths alone at the end of a day 's work . |
| 5 | A declining number of people continued to sew shoes by hand in their cottages or little workshops right until the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | The original Conservative proposal had been to unload all secondary or graduated pensions on to the private sector . |
| 7 | Well , she went round that there yard two or three times there with the tumbril on one wheel ; and then the other owd cows , they were going about there , you know . |
| 8 | And erm take them and down two two or three loads down to the station . |
| 9 | In the event , the shares were expected to open two or three dollars up on the $79.615 close to Monday trading . |
| 10 | There will be sweet moments for all of us , but they will be swamped by the sour … and we 'll all be happy , in our own peculiar way , saving up for a sunny day two or three years off in the future . |
| 11 | And they 'll come from oh two or three miles back to the same tree . |
| 12 | Aye , er in er two or three places right in the woodlands , in , on the slope we had erm Douglas fir there , going up two hundred and fifty , and two hundred feet tall . |
| 13 | Two or three weeks away from the home environment in a tense atmosphere at the site of a recently crashed aircraft where everyone , officials and public alike , is looking to you to resolve the puzzle of how it came about can be stimulating , even exciting . |
| 14 | The church is built close to the edge of the bluff , which falls an overgrown eighty or ninety feet down into the wide bed of the gave or river ; and the view up or downstream is dignified further by the curtain wall of the medieval Tour Monréal , that stands at one corner of the small square in front of the church . |
| 15 | About fifty or sixty yards away on the right-band side of the road a mortar bomb burst in the hedgerow , followed a few seconds later by four German soldiers carrying automatic weapons jumping from the hedgerow and scampering along the road . |
| 16 | Two of the late-Georgian or early-Victorian villas halfway up the hill are on the market . |
| 17 | He describes how the infant at birth has no means of linking features or bodily parts together in the form of an identity . |
| 18 | A similar mechanism may perhaps account for the fact that some group-living animals drive sick or injured individuals out of the group . |
| 19 | Much attention has been given to the seemingly altruistic behaviour of dolphins , with various authors citing such examples as the way cetaceans will assist or stand by other ill , injured or stranded animals even to the point of their own death . |
| 20 | When we got there we found dead or starving owlets all over the place . |
| 21 | He was there , standing in the dark ink-green shadow under a dense carob tree seventy or eighty yards away on the other side of the gulley , at the same level as myself . |
| 22 | The dotted lines show the expected mean level of the variables , and the levels at which there is a 5% and 1% probability of being exceeded by one or more bins somewhere within the whole periodogram . |
| 23 | The sea off Sussex is shallow ; only off the chalk cliffs and at Fairlight does the five-fathom line come nearer than one kilometre from the shore , and along most of the county it is three or more kilometres out from the shore . |
| 24 | Co-ownership entitles two or more persons concurrently to the possession and enjoyment of the same land . |
| 25 | As more of us get opportunities to take one or more holidays abroad in the sun each year , the chances of getting a melanoma are increasing , say doctors . |
| 26 | Some patients failed to record data on one or more days either on the written record or the electronic record ( table I ) . |
| 27 | There are literally thousands of Latin words occurring in texts of interest to the local historian — and these may date from the sixth or seventh centuries down to the seventeenth . |
| 28 | Convertible or non-convertible bonds up to the value of half of the stock capital may be issued . |
| 29 | The 75-bed proposal was something like 15 or 16 miles away from the city . |
| 30 | He was four or five lengths away from the next plane when one by one they angled into the quilted greyness . |