Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] second " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was booked early in the second half for a clattering foul on Abel . |
| 2 | A family which was torn apart during the Second World War has had an emotional reunion . |
| 3 | When I left you last month I was looking forward to the second round of the Macpherson Paints UK Championships to be fished at Diglis Weir on the River Severn . |
| 4 | The New Town , the central part of which was built mainly in the second half of the eighteenth century , is more spaciously laid out in classical streets and squares — ‘ not only gay and airy ’ , said Robert Louis Stevenson , ‘ but highly picturesque ’ . |
| 5 | It was used extensively during the Second World War , and is still used in parts of the Third World to help eradicate malaria and typhus . |
| 6 | Prednisone was used less during the second year ; twenty six patients received one course and 10 children two or more courses . |
| 7 | The barking was getting closer by the second and we could hear the hunters whistling and shouting orders to the dogs , and the sound of the boar scrunching dried leaves and snapping dead branches as it hurtled down through the trees . |
| 8 | Millmead battled away and did the best they could , but their cause was blighted further during the second half when they were reduced to eight men due to injury . |
| 9 | He was replaced early in the second half by Shutt . |
| 10 | The message of the first oil shock was driven home by the second , when the Iranian revolution caused a further doubling of world crude prices . |
| 11 | Weaver 's Northwich brewery was also retained , and the production of the new ‘ Palatinate ’ lager was concentrated there in a second redevelopment phase during the later 1970s . |
| 12 | But that was abandoned midway through the second half . |
| 13 | The stone disimpacted in eight of these patients after seven to 10 days decompression and was removed successfully at the second stage , whereas five of six patients with persistent stone impaction required more than one session for stone clearance . |
| 14 | Another offshore contract is with British Gas Exploration and Production in Morecambe Bay , which was renewed recently for a second four year period . |
| 15 | He had been a deputy in parliament for the Swiss Party of Labour from 1944 , when it was founded , to 1986 , having represented the Communist Party from 1936 until it was banned shortly before the Second World War . |
| 16 | The magnitude of excursion of the mirror was read aloud by a second observer ( watching the projected light ) to an assistant who wrote on the drum next to the appropriate signal . |