Example sentences of "it is [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is largely in the last decade that banks have modified their traditional role of borrowing from individuals to lend to industry , and have started lending massively to individuals themselves too . |
| 2 | ‘ Sometimes it does get me down , but I get over that and then it is off to the next place . ’ |
| 3 | And it is really in the last decade that credit cards have been sold as a major source of credit ; and that American banks have tried to sell people loans here . |
| 4 | It is therefore to the second alternative — selling goods and services overseas — that countries must look if they are to maintain and improve their living standards and avoid a balance of payments crisis . |
| 5 | It is there in the Ninth but in the Ninth there is great beauty and a sense of harmony with death . |
| 6 | It is only for the last century and a half that a direct picture becomes a convincing possibility . |
| 7 | Although Britain has been occupied by man for more than 25,000 years , in a form of intermittent visits over long periods between glaciations , it is only for the last 12,000 years or so that the country has been continuously occupied , with people moving into Britain permanently to exploit what resources were available . |
| 8 | It is large , rich and compressed , but it is only of the eighth magnitude , and I find it very difficult with × 7 and not really easy with × 8.5 or × 12 , though with × 20 it is obvious enough . |
| 9 | It is only after the next stage , gastrulation , that the form of the animal begins to emerge . |
| 10 | It is only amongst the third , however , that this can be seen as ‘ causal ’ in any determinate sense . |
| 11 | It is only from the eighteenth century that ‘ bourgeois art ’ sets itself up as a realm separate from the social with its own specific ‘ institutional ’ apparatus of production , distribution , and reception of aesthetic forms . |
| 12 | But it is only in the second half of 1908 that Picasso turned to a more concentrated study of Cézanne . |
| 13 | It is only in the twentieth century that theorists have attempted to produce a version of democracy in which popular participation is treated with suspicion , if not regarded as positively undesirable . |
| 14 | It is only in the sixth form , apparently , that pupils will work for examinations . |
| 15 | It is only in the last generation that British education has begun to grasp the idea that schooling should maximise the opportunity of every individual child . |
| 16 | The first pre-retirement courses were held in the United States in 1949 , but it is only in the last ten to fifteen years that the need for them has been recognised in the United Kingdom . |
| 17 | However , using any form of medication should be a last resort and it is only in the last four or five years that I have used herbal remedies ( for eighteen years before that I used no treatments ) as a lot of minor problems will heal themselves , provided that the tank is healthy and the water quality is good . |
| 18 | Although the pied flycatcher 's adultery has been known about since 1950 , it is only in the last few years that the scientist Rauno Alatalo and his colleagues , studying pied flycatchers in Sweden , have begun to unravel the finer details . |
| 19 | It is only in the last thirty-five years that animals had been allowed to have ‘ mental ’ processes other than learning and so it is only in that time that psychologists have developed the behavioural tests to investigate them . |
| 20 | Indeed , according to Booth , it is only in the last couple of years that it has focused on product marketing . |
| 21 | It is only in the last hundred years that the West has taken a serious interest in exactly where the different Anatolian rugs were made . |
| 22 | It is only in the last hundred and fifty years , in any culture , that a majority of people have had even minimal access to this technique which already , over two millennia , had been carrying a major part of human culture . |
| 23 | But it is only in the last 30 years that Australia has secured the knowledge , technique and the desire to produce the sort of subtle , light wines which we enjoy — and at which Australia excels . |
| 24 | It is only in the last few years , then , that new IT , mainly in the form of the microcomputer , has started to play a part in formal education . |
| 25 | It is only in the last 40 years with the growth of commuting that the towns on the outskirts — like say Arnold — have developed and grown . |
| 26 | Thomas died in December , but it is only in the last few days that Scotland Yard has received information from the FBI about why he was killed . |
| 27 | Caribbeans who have come to Britain from abroad have probably always brought with them their own distinctively Caribbean varieties of language ; yet it is only in the last two or three decades that educators and policy makers — and to some extent , the general public — have taken an interest in " Black English " ( also called Creole or Patois ) in Britain . |
| 28 | But it is only in the last few weeks that news of Kevin 's death has reached American troops still in the Middle East . |
| 29 | It is only within the last decade that the concepts of service , growth , competitiveness and value for money have begun to feature on accountants ' list of priorities . |
| 30 | ( Indeed , it is only within the last thirty years or so that the skyscraper has arrived in Milan ) . |