Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're three minutes at home , then you 're fine , most likely that will mean you 're up slightly under the three minutes when you do it before your tutor . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm only here for the one night . ’ |
| 3 | It 's only just after the one world week thing . |
| 4 | The February index provides renewed evidence of a slowdown although the average 7.3 p.c. rise is only marginally below the 7.5 p.c. recorded in the October index . |
| 5 | In all , Sly Spy is just about worth the four brass beer tokens asked for by your friendly computer shop . |
| 6 | Phelioff won the Ladies ' Open at this meeting last Easter and is once again amongst the 15 entries . |
| 7 | Their marriage of mind barely peeps above the surface of surviving documents , though it is plain enough in the two masterpieces they produced in 1945 , Brideshead Revisited and Animal Farm . |
| 8 | It was not long before the two families were joined with ties other than zeal for their faith and a deep devotion to its outworking . |
| 9 | To their combined relief , it was not long before the two men arrived at the driveway and stepped cautiously out onto its surface . |
| 10 | Yet , while the traditional working class had little prospect of improving their economic and social opportunities , this was not so for the two and a half million or so families whose income varied between £2 and £4 per week . |
| 11 | The total value of cross-border deals in the first three months of this year at $13.3 billion was 45 p.c. up on the corresponding period a year ago but was still well below the 1989 peak when the quarterly average reached $32.6 billion . |
| 12 | It seems fair to say , in fact , that the first thirty years of Proust 's life laid much of the intellectual basis for his later literary erm achievements , and it was incidentally also during the eighteen nineties , that , among other things , he obtained a , a Licence des lettres , that he attended Bergson 's lectures , that he discovered Ruskin , and that he wrote the bulk of nearly a thousand manuscript sheets discovered in an old hatbox after the last World War , and published as Jean Santeuil in nineteen fifty-two . |