Example sentences of "down [prep] [art] [num ord] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As cricket activity wound down during the first two years of the war the Otago CA was finding Crawford to be an expensive acquisition , with only £103 in the Coach 's Fund and £169 being paid out for a six-month period . |
| 2 | The estate and the businesses in Bradford have been allowed to run down during the last few years , while my father was not well . |
| 3 | LLANDUDNO General Hospital will be virtually closed down for the next few days while the scale of the damage is assessed . |
| 4 | The annual growth of world trade in 1991 slowed down for the third successive year , according to the annual report of the Director-General of GATT , issued on March 18 . |
| 5 | It 's been really getting me down for the last four seasons — I 've been running disgustingly . |
| 6 | Could well go down as a second own goal of the match . |
| 7 | The favourite still seemed to be going well enough , however , and the adoring masses were not particularly worried as the leading group — Ten of Spades and Desert Orchid , with Toby Tobias and Norton 's Coin close behind — thundered down towards the third last fence . |
| 8 | But a spokesman for the firm which organised the poster campaign said it should come down within the next five days . |
| 9 | But falling pupil numbers at Soudley Primary School could lead to it being shut down within the next few years . |
| 10 | A goal down in the first 10 minutes . |
| 11 | I like this , its been proved that waiting list have gone down in the last six months |
| 12 | Can i do you want figures on commodities I think quite a lot of us are aware that coffee prices have gone down in the last ten years . |
| 13 | But in Latin America , even the crudest indicators such as per capita GNP , or gross national product ( which takes no account of wealth distribution ) show that people 's incomes have actually gone down in the last few years and their health , education and nutrition have gone down with them . |
| 14 | This possibility gradually breaks down in the next two stanzas . |
| 15 | Before the worst was over and the pound began to depreciate again , some twenty per cent of them had gone for ever , and a further ten per cent were so weakened that they too shut down in the next two years . |
| 16 | As long as they come down in the next twenty minutes ! |
| 17 | There seems little chance of one of the party 's senior professionals stepping down in the next few months to create a by-election for the Tory chairman . |
| 18 | He introduced Whitlock and Sabrina to Bailey who then sat down on the second black leather sofa and took a cigar from his pocket . |
| 19 | Lambert nursed his coughing , shaking aircraft back to the field and thankfully touched down on the first available yard of turf . |
| 20 | Others , conscious that they were eating the equivalent of a diamond brooch or a sapphire pendant , sat down to a last giddy meal eating before the Collector could get his hands on it , all at once , what they had hoarded for weeks . |
| 21 | She knew because she felt the same herself , the whole damn lot of it , down to the last small detail . |
| 22 | She would pester him until she got exactly what she wanted , down to the last painted fan and embroidered reticule . |
| 23 | Obviously the pieces gradually reduce in size but I do find that I can work with even very small pieces , as they stay whole and workable down to the last tiny fragment . |
| 24 | Me , I manage British Rail 's timetable , down to the last 66-minute hour . |
| 25 | Yet the resemblance of a modern stick insect to a stick is marvellously good , down to the last fine details of fake buds and leaf-scars . |
| 26 | staff salaries have gone down over the last eighteen months |
| 27 | In Brazil there are all sorts of commodities whose price has gone down over the last ten years . |
| 28 | The yard will be run down over the next three weeks with the loss of 600 jobs . |
| 29 | You do n't get better down at the First Spiritualist Church . |
| 30 | John Browne , the Conservative MP for Winchester since 1979 , announced on March 15 , 1990 , that he would stand down at the next general election . |