Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] but [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The match looked set to be a close affair when the two neighbours were level pegging after three heats but then a run of four successive 5–1s for the home side virtually settled the issue . |
| 2 | Newsflash — maximum ten lines but otherwise no rules . |
| 3 | An incomer friend — all of seventeen years but forever an incomer — in Ness had wailed . |
| 4 | In 1688 Townesend married Anne , daughter of Henry Brian , gentleman , of Witney : they had at least eight children but only a son John and a daughter survived their father , the former carrying on the business . |
| 5 | It is not only the Indians that divide life into two compartments but also the Buddhists . |
| 6 | I have n't cut the lawn for two days but tonight the garden smells of freshly mown grass nonetheless because next door have just done theirs . |
| 7 | Reports say they will bid £8 million to buy out Swales , chairman for 20 years but now the subject of a concerted hate campaign by supporters following the sacking of manager Peter Reid . |