Example sentences of "in [prep] the [num ord] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast , at times Durie looked ready to scream , especially when the errors started creeping in during the second set of her 6-2 , 7-6 win over the promising Yayuk Basuki . |
| 2 | Almost 2,000 knives and other blades have been handed in during the first fortnight of the month-long amnesty . |
| 3 | Bill Clinton swept in as the 42nd president of the United States with a landslide victory and the promise of a new beginning . |
| 4 | The research by Yorkshire TV paid off last Sunday when 18 million tuned in for the first episode of A Touch of Frost . |
| 5 | I think I 'm gon na try and persuade my Mum to let me bring my camera in for the last day of term , I 'm gon na get a bottle of from the shop that 's on . |
| 6 | The oral phase occurs in about the first year of a child 's life . |
| 7 | Only in about the last quarter of the century did colour printing , in the form of chromolithographs , become at all usual ; and for expensive books , hand-colouring remained the norm well into the twentieth century . |
| 8 | The period of time when acceptance becomes possible seems to link in with the first anniversary of events . |
| 9 | Tied in with the third exhibition of her work by London dealer David Gill who was responsible for her renaissance . |
| 10 | A child was brought in in the last stages of diphtheria . |
| 11 | She had moved across the courtyard , flagstone by flagstone , to cheat the shadow ; now she was boxed in to the last corner of light . |
| 12 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |