Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I think er of time now what five or six years ago came to presentation .
2 The six officers nearly snapped to attention and saluted .
3 Farr , who played in the 1984 Curtis Cup at Muirfield , was three years ago diagnosed with breast cancer and has since required all manner of chemotherapy and radiation treatment , together with a bone marrow transplant .
4 Three men almost went to prison as a result .
5 Twelve patients also complained of diarrhoea defined either as frequent passage of small amounts of stools or as habitual passage of liquid or semiliquid stools .
6 However , these two commanders also remained at sea throughout the landings and so had as little idea as Hamilton of what was going forward .
7 In the following month , Edward broke his feudal links with the French crown , and the two countries soon drifted into war .
8 When the Occupation formally ended in 1952 following the conclusion of the San Francisco Peace Treaty the previous year , a Mutual Security Treaty between the two countries also came into force .
9 Isolates were maintained in vitro for four days then grafted in combination with fetal mesenchyme , to the renal subcapsular space of adult nude mice .
10 The two men eventually fell into conversation , the late-comer explaining that he was a director of the railway company and that he was interested in a new branch line that was to be opened .
11 At least two men reportedly died in prison from injuries inflicted .
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