Example sentences of "they [be] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The bookies are offering longer odds on Doncaster winning anything than they are on the first Martian landing in Newton Aycliffe . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ But they are in the first two heats so we will know our fate very early . ’ |
| 3 | At Penywaun , years later , he told me about John Evans and his sister as they were at the first two decades of this century : I sensed as a boy they were unusual but now I recognized how different they were . |
| 4 | This is how they were in the first few games of the season . |
| 5 | Can the Prime Minister really take any comfort from the fact that , bad as today 's figures are , they are slightly less bad than they were in the last Tory slump ? |