Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv] [prep] the second " in BNC.

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1 The parallels here are with Sheffield before huge new steel works were erected there during the second half of the nineteenth century .
2 The sections were evaluated blindly by the second author twice with two months interval .
3 All of the practices were looking forward to the second year in which the ‘ steady state ’ of year 1 would give way to even greater freedom and opportunity .
4 Australian team manager Bobby Simpson said his bowlers were looking forward to the second day , when similar overcast conditions were forecast .
5 Well if you remember that the Jarrow marches and the general strike were n't very many years erm you know be behind the preparations that were going on for the second world war .
6 Soon Paige could hear it too — there were people climbing up towards them and they were getting closer by the second .
7 Those worth £5 — £19 were roped in for the second loan , in 1523 , so paying a total of 15 per cent , not so very much less than what was expected of the £20 men , and of course a proportionately heavier burden .
8 At halftime , he 'd come on to the pitch and give the whole team extra-strong mints , rearrange the tactics , change our positions , tell us we were playing downhill in the second half , tell us that a six-goal deficit was nothing .
9 In November 1771 he sold to the Admiralty two vessels constructed at Whitby which , renamed Resolution and Adventure , were fitted out for the second great voyage of discovery ( 1772–5 ) of Commander ( later Captain ) James Cook [ q.v . ] .
10 Steaua 's Ionel Fulga and Antwerp 's Rudy Taeymans were sent off in the second half , Fulga for dangerous play and Taeymans for a second bookable offence .
11 that helicopter 's were fucking around during the second World War but they , they were
12 Gossels says the development and engineering plans along with a set of milestones and documentation were published along with the second snapshot towards the end of last year and sent to 50 early access members , arguing that the schedule and adherence to it is known and calculable , The next part , the Management Framework , is set for release by the end of the year .
13 But they were disappearing even before the Second World War .
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