Example sentences of "[num] and [adv] [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like her elder sisters , Diana was on horseback at three and soon developed a passion for animals , the smaller the better . |
| 2 | They indicate that it was already accelerating in the mid and late 1960s and actually reached a peak in the first three or four years of the following decade , after which it fell back substantially . |
| 3 | Gower and Lamb both produced sixties and actually managed a century stand , but no other batsman passed eight and the total was no more than 176 . |
| 4 | In Denmark , where she opened with an 84 and ultimately holed a putt across the 18th green to make the half-way cut by a shot , an almost suicidal depression set in . |
| 5 | The country 's supreme policy-making body , the national executive committee ( NEC ) of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi ( CCM — Party of the Revolution ) , met on Jan. 17-21 and unanimously accepted a proposal to end 27 years of one-party rule . |