Example sentences of "[vb past] well [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cutting that over the numbers had me down and stopped well before the first intersection , a distance of around 400 metres , and I could have done much better if I 'd heaved on the brakes , which are single Goodyear discs with excellent stopping power . |
| 2 | He said they played well in the first half , but then things went wrong in the second half , when Orrell had a bit of luck in scoring after a knock on . |
| 3 | Hopefully if the money is there to enable the works to be built , then we 'll see Venice safeguarded well into the next century . |
| 4 | It was an important step towards the ideal of interchangeable parts , and it went well with the nineteenth century transforming of craft activity into modern industry , remotely controlled by paper in the form of plans and drawings , prepared by people in a distant office and perhaps in a distant town . |
| 5 | In Prussia the agricultural crisis was to reach its climax in the 1880s and 1890s , but its effects were still to be seen and felt well into the twentieth century . |
| 6 | When I published this group , with an enormous amount of help from Philip Corder ( Webster , 1947 ) , I was confident that it fell well into the fourth century . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the yacht did well on the first leg , finishing sixth . |
| 8 | American oil companies did well in the first quarter , helped by fat profits on refining . |
| 9 | ‘ I think we did well in the first game at Ibrox , despite the result . |
| 10 | England were perhaps flattered by the scoreline against the Scots but did well in the second half to get the game moving in the direction that they wanted . |
| 11 | It was not until the 1870s that in British science grams and centimetres replaced ounces , troy or avoirdupois , and cubic inches ; while in engineering the old units lasted well into the twentieth century . |
| 12 | A great wave of Greek influence in Rome began in the mid-second century BC with the conquest of Greece , and lasted well into the first century , by which time it had become a well-established fashion for young men of well-to-do families to complete their education in Athens . |
| 13 | In contrast , the practice of storing all the crops in barns and so of erecting large buildings , continued well into the nineteenth century in the south of England and East Anglia . |
| 14 | These arguments in favour of , or against , granting the press its freedom continued well into the 19th century . |