Example sentences of "but [adv] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The notion of a country united under Alfred 's West Saxon successors gained ground but slowly in the tenth century . |
| 2 | Tells you nothing about Ancient Egypt but much about the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | Consequently decreased mortality among all ages ( but especially in the first year of life ) , together with a long-term reduction in fertility , have combined to produce an ageing population structure . |
| 4 | Its looking good for both Swindon and Oxford , but down in the third division Hereford are having a tough old time … they 're just four points and four places off the bottom of the table … on Saturday they missed out at Lincoln … they lost two-nil |
| 5 | The required number of votes was eventually achieved , but only on the third attempt . |
| 6 | But only for the first day or so ; after a week I ca n't wait to return to Koraloona . ’ |
| 7 | This scheme too is found in free-standing statues ( e.g. figs. 75 , 76 ) , but only among the first generation or two of classical sculptors . |
| 8 | The young man 's betrothed is related to him but only in the seventh degree . ’ |
| 9 | The public were a ‘ voice offstage ’ to be used by each side in their threats , but only in the last resort was public debate considered to have a useful role in decision making . |
| 10 | Thus , the consonant/ dz/is sampled in all three word positions in the Goldman-Fristoe test ( ‘ j ump ’ , ‘ py j amas ’ , ‘ orange ’ ) but only in the third position ( ‘ garage ’ , ‘ bridge ’ ) in the EAT . |
| 11 | Normally , patients will continue to come to the nursing station for periodic assessment during the first ten days of treatment but already by the second day they attend lectures and individual and group counselling sessions . |
| 12 | I 've bought all sorts really , but normally in the first week or two of getting paid , I 'd buy a gram or whatever and make it last for four or five days , so I 'd sort of have a quarter a day out of it . |
| 13 | ‘ . Primitive and child are again linked , but not as the second childhood of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ . |
| 14 | He was expected to sell out , but not to the last shilling . |
| 15 | Another splendidly flighted pass found McClair in the danger zone , but not for the first time the Scot 's control was wayward . |
| 16 | But not at the first interview . |
| 17 | But not by the third time . |
| 18 | Sometimes a head-on collision with a lorry seems inevitable , but somehow at the last moment we or they swerve out of the way . |
| 19 | In the beginning , maybe , when the meaning of life , or the preferability of semi-skimmed milk to skimmed might be debated , but once past the first anniversary , many of the conversations follow a well-worn route from one topic to the next and back again , taking in most of human life . |
| 20 | In earlier centuries , excessive child-bearing and its short- and long-term consequences took a great toll among young women , but early in the twentieth century a fall in mortality from tuberculosis , somewhat later in maternal mortality , and the diseases particular to women 's reproductive functions , left males more vulnerable than females . |
| 21 | Not only had Count Raymond V supported the Young King in 1183 , but early in the next year his son Raymond VI had let some routiers into the Limousin . |
| 22 | This means that at the European Top 12 tournament , which started in Copenhagen yesterday afternoon , players will still be able to use many types of glue — but probably for the last time in a major European event . |
| 23 | For as an analysis of the painting will show , many of the problems that faced Picasso and Braque in their creation of the style are stated here , crudely perhaps , but clearly for the first time . |
| 24 | But later in the nineteenth century operative technique greatly improved and the advent of anaesthesia ( 1800 for nitrous oxide , 1848 for chloroform ) made surgeons more adventurous . |
| 25 | But midway through the first half , with England for once turning the screw , Rory Underwood was denied a try by Denis McBride 's crunching tackle that wrenched the ball from the flying winger 's grasp . |
| 26 | But often over the last couple of years our help has enabled a business to keep going . ’ |
| 27 | But now for the first time the diocese was being consulted — informally , quietly , but systematically . |
| 28 | But now for the first time she recognised the chill of fear . |
| 29 | I think once more , but now for the last time , I 'm going to turn back again to the preface to The Reason of Church Government and whoops and read you one more sentence erm in which he is apologizing once more for having entered the fray , the political fray ‘ But although a poet , soaring in the high region of his fancies , with his garland and singing robes about him , might without apology speak more of himself than I mean to do , yet for me , sitting here below in the cool element of prose , a mortal thing among many readers of no imperial conceit , to venture and divulge unusual things of myself , I shall petition to the gentler sort it may not be envy to me . ’ |
| 30 | But today for the first time she was certain that even in Paul 's presence she would find the courage to say what she wanted , what she really wanted , in the depth of her soul ; she was certain that she would find this courage even at the price of ruining everything between them . |