Example sentences of "[coord] [num] [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 | 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 ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And erm take them and down two two or three loads down to the station . |
| 5 | In the event , the shares were expected to open two or three dollars up on the $79.615 close to Monday trading . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And they 'll come from oh two or three miles back to the same tree . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The 75-bed proposal was something like 15 or 16 miles away from the city . |
| 14 | He was four or five lengths away from the next plane when one by one they angled into the quilted greyness . |
| 15 | The brick side-wall of his neighbour 's house seemed to have moved itself four or five feet further towards the dividing fence , so that it loomed offensively . |
| 16 | The result — a rather higher rate of completion of power stations and higher spending four or five years later in the mid-1950s — was welcomed by the Electricity Division , but it annoyed the Treasury and caused political embarrassment for the Government ( which had been promising restraint in the public sector ) . |
| 17 | ‘ I think it may have more to do with my age — but I do feel I have got four or five years more at the top level in the game and I would love to perform at the top level of the Premier League . |
| 18 | Gloucestershire clothiers in 1756 " laid the chain four or five yards longer on the bar " and stopped altogether an allowance of two shillings the price which they had been paying for " stopping " ( repairing ) the cloth . |
| 19 | Miller pointed out that ‘ Oranges , jesmines , capers , olives and pomegranites … are annually brought from Italy and , if skilfully managed , very few of them miscarry , notwithstanding they are many times three or four months out of the ground . ’ |
| 20 | And I would say , I 'd maybe be about twenty or thirty yards away from the coach , and I 'd say to the shunter when he come out , That buckeye 's not caught . |
| 21 | ‘ There are one or two things on at the moment , ’ he said . |
| 22 | For example , a pupil who is mastering literacy and numeracy with few difficulties will spend a considerable amount of time in the ordinary classroom , but another may need a good deal of specialised help and be at a stage of going to only one or two lessons daily in the fully integrated situation . |
| 23 | One or two points now about the practicalities of making a will . |
| 24 | As you approach Bude the crowds increase , but once you 're one or two miles away from the main centre the numbers quickly drop off . |
| 25 | Even so one or two buildings already on the site including part of the Tithe barn and the Chapel were adapted and pressed into service . |
| 26 | Ray , a Veterans Athletic Club road and cross-country runner , has been slowly picking up speed during his first six or seven years back in the sport and he 's now a top-ranked man . |
| 27 | The new measures provided for ( i ) the lifting of the 150-mile exclusion zone around the Falkland Islands and its replacement on March 31 , 1990 , by mutually agreed security arrangements ( backed up by a direct radio " hotline " between the commander of the Falklands garrison and Argentina 's military high command ) giving each country advance warning of the military manoeuvres of the other , and allowing Argentinian warships and aircraft to come within 50 miles and 70 miles respectively of the Falklands without prior permission ; ( ii ) co-operation on air and sea rescue , safety procedures and air and maritime navigation ; ( iii ) an investment promotion and protection pact to encourage investment in the Falklands , and negotiations on possible Anglo-Argentinian investment promotion and protection agreements ; ( iv ) shared information on fishing in the South Atlantic , although a 150-mile conservation zone around the Falklands would be maintained , within which Argentinian vessels were denied the right to fish [ see p. 37001 ] ; ( v ) a working group on South Atlantic affairs and arrangements for further talks to improve contacts between the mainland and the Falklands ; ( vi ) visits by Argentinian relatives to Falkland war graves by arrangement with the International Red Cross ; ( vii ) co-operation on environmental protection ; and ( viii ) co-operation against drug trafficking . |
| 28 | Treatment with corticosteroids was begun in each of these without success , with death occurring 105 and 53 days respectively after the onset of jaundice . |
| 29 | The fourth update ( 1981 ) and the fifth update ( 1982 ) contained 41 and 49 references respectively under the heading ‘ user education and training ’ . |
| 30 | The right-wing New Democratic Force ( NFD ) won nine seats in the Senate and the right-wing National Salvation Movement ( MSN ) won five and 12 seats respectively in the Senate and lower house . |