Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Possom Bourne drove them to victory in the Rally Of Indonesia … after four days and 400 kilometres they were six minutes ahead at the end |
| 2 | The train that leaves Montreal comprises only a couple of day coaches , linking up with the main service 10 hours later at the junction town of Sudbury , Ontario . |
| 3 | They may have had some basis in reality because bones of a large primate 3.5 metres tall and weighing 800 pounds , found in caves in southern China , date back to over 300,000 years ago at the time Homo Erectus was still alive . |
| 4 | Freddie did not manage to keep us in the Cup against the powerful Rangers outfit but , usually playing at centre-forward , he steadily repaid that fee several times over during the first five post-war seasons , for not only has his tally of 48 League goals only been exceeded by six players here at The Palace since then , but his goals were scored in struggling Palace teams , which only once finished in the upper half of the League table . |
| 5 | HCI offers discounts for all children aged 2–11 years inclusive at the time of travel . |
| 6 | Former Macci pupils include Tommy Ho , who turned pro three years ago at the age of 15 , and Will Bull , the National Boys 18 runner-up in 1990 who is a rookie on the tour . |
| 7 | Figure 4.1 shows the employment status of two age-groups of older workers immediately after redundancy and three years later at the time of interview . |
| 8 | That land is extremely valuable , and what 's more I would suggest that the three people here at the table with me go back to the Property Committee , to which they belong . |
| 9 | Whitby are now three points ahead at the top , but have played four games more than Gretna . |
| 10 | Typical sail dimensions to lift up to one kilo ( 2.21b ) would be a span or width across the mainspar of 125cm ( 49in ) and a depth of 85cm ( 33in ) so that the triangle is an included angle of 73 degrees approximately at the apex ; however , this is not critical . |
| 11 | Today it 's officially known , as it was five thousand years ago at the height of its civilization , as Thera Island . |
| 12 | we have about three thousand boxes here at the moment . |
| 13 | We were a large family of seven and my father worked on the railway and he only had two pounds a week , but we could make three pounds and ten shillings just at the weekend by working the clubs . |
| 14 | Ten feet up at the threshold the throttles are closed and a token flare made almost incredibly close to the tarmac — the sensation of speed quite exhilarating at 120 knots and two feet — when the soft , forgiving kneeling-knuckle undercarriage absorbs any small residual descent-rate to give a smooth gentle touchdown . |
| 15 | One of the children , the little boy , did indeed follow his mother ten years later at the age of fourteen . |
| 16 | Stuart had told me that Aj ( whose name is short for Arnold Junior , after the Head Forester of whom he became the spitting image when he first came to work at Clumber as a woodsman ten years ago at the age of sixteen ) was a dab hand with a tractor . |
| 17 | Ten years earlier at the time of the Younger Report , it had been possible to compile a rough estimate of the number of computer installations ; all thoughts were then on the powerful centralised main-frame equipment which had dominated the technology till then . |
| 18 | The tragic accident happened ten days ago at the family 's Regent Crescent home in Carrickfergus after returning from a seven-day holiday in Jersey . |
| 19 | Against you on the aisle so eighty at the back now against you , all done at eighty pounds right at the back , eighty pounds , are you all done ? |
| 20 | HAMILTON PARK has always been one of Jack Berry 's happiest hunting grounds , and the Cockerham-based trainer was in his customary bubbly mood as he brought off a 15-1 double yesterday at the track 's final meeting of 1992 . |
| 21 | Other theorists ( e.g. Mackintosh and Reese 1979 ) ( see also Wagner 1981 ) attribute the effect to competition between stimuli at a perceptual level , suggesting that because of some limited capacity mechanism , attention can be paid to one component only at the expense of that paid to the other . |
| 22 | Poor Jasper happened to be curled up asleep some five feet away at the time and was rudely awakened . |
| 23 | From the moment he decided to take up running nine years ago at the age of 38 , Zarei had never been interested in running against the clock , or in beating others . |
| 24 | ‘ There are about 16 places here at the moment but most of them are already booked . |
| 25 | This week , Royal Oak travel to Waverley who are just one point ahead at the top of the Div . |
| 26 | Tiny Andrew Morrison , who was born nine weeks early at the Countess of Chester Hospital , is among 481 children treated by a junior doctor who has since been found to be suffering from TB . |
| 27 | In 1922 Mr Charles Hinks became articled to Mr Latimer and was given a partnership on qualifying five years later at the age of 21 quite a distinction as the custom was to buy a share in a practice . |
| 28 | We can think of the adult as analogous to the ephemeral winged seed of a plant like a sycamore , and the larva as analogous to the main plant , the difference being that sycamores make many seeds and shed them over many successive years , while a mayfly larva gives rise to only one adult right at the end of its own life . |
| 29 | Luke Harvey put Katabatic under strong pressure , but never looked likely to make up the leeway and was five lengths down at the finish . |
| 30 | Otherwise it just gets spent in one trip down at the village shop . ’ |