Example sentences of "[adv] nine " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notwithstanding a marked inferiority at centre and back row , the champions , with only nine of their title-winning side and four newcomers to county rugby , made an unstinting contribution to a fluid game in which they were outscored in tries only three to four . |
| 2 | Only nine horses contested last night 's Puissance but , though the big red wall at 6ft 11in was short of record height , it reached a sporting climax . |
| 3 | Jack Matthews , the ‘ Fighting Barber ’ and father of Stanley , fought 350 bouts losing only nine times without winning a championship title . |
| 4 | The kidnap poses a severe test for the infant government of the Prime Minister , Mr Vishwanath Pratap Singh , which has been in power only nine days . |
| 5 | At the finish , after nearly four hours of racing , Juno IV had lost only nine minutes to the leading 50-footer and was three minutes ahead of her close rival , Peter Kurts 's Madeline 's Daughter from New South Wales . |
| 6 | Only nine days ago he lost the Macartney and Dowie Classic when Douglas defeated him in the semi-final , and the loss of another title today could be extremely damaging to morale . |
| 7 | More painful still , 16-megabit chips will hit the market at only nine times the price of existing 4-megabit DRAMs . |
| 8 | By contrast , only nine of the 49 regional party secretaries in Russia — the bulwarks of party authority outside Moscow — were elected . |
| 9 | De Freitas and Small were extremely economical and there were only nine balls left when the total was passed , but with Richards on song — and becoming the first man to score 5,000 runs in one-day internationals — only four wickets went down . |
| 10 | Only nine per cent of Moxon-Browne 's survey described themselves as evangelicals , but 74.5 per cent gave ‘ fear of the power of the Roman Catholic Church ’ as their reason for being unionist . |
| 11 | In the next Conservative government , Edward Heath was so lukewarm about the idea that between 1970 and 1973 only nine political knighthoods were awarded , provoking complaints of knight starvation . |
| 12 | The total number attending was only nine less than on the question of membership of the European Community seventeen years earlier , and forty more than had voted on the Government of Ireland bill in 1893 . |
| 13 | Mr Dennis and the Honda Marlborough McLaren team face a massive task to resurrect their fortunes after scoring only nine points in the opening three races and enduring such a miserable weekend debut with the long-awaited MP4/7A . |
| 14 | In the PGA Championship at Inverness , he was four strokes in front of Bob Tway with only nine holes to play — and still lost , Tway holing from a bunker on the final green for a birdie . |
| 15 | With Coventry having scored only nine goals since Mr Howe took charge it is obvious where their problem lies and it is hard to see how they can solve it . |
| 16 | John died in October 1216 and was succeeded by his young son ( only nine years old ) who , fortunately , had two able Regents to guide him — William Marshall and Hubert de Burgh . |
| 17 | The first monthly medal winner was L.C. Smith , one of only nine competitors . |
| 18 | ‘ I liked him ’ , one daughter summed up a grandfather who had been orphaned in the Irish potato famine : ‘ he was an old man , and I was only nine when he died , but as our father was at the [ First World ] War , I suppose he was the only man in the house . |
| 19 | I was not quite five feet eight inches high , weighed only nine and a half stone , and found it uncomfortable to stand without arch-supports even for the duration of a hymn in church . |
| 20 | Though I was exhausted and had managed only nine miles , it had been a better day than the first . |
| 21 | Jessie had said a fortnight , but it was only nine days since she had broken the awful news to her . |
| 22 | At the age of only nine , he set off on the London coach , and said a sudden and bewildered farewell both to his family and to his Devon childhood . |
| 23 | The dangerous logic of events was leading to a predictable conclusion , though Sarah and Coleridge had met for the first time only nine days before and were of fundamentally different temperaments , she sharp-tongued , humorous and practical , he procrastinating and visionary . |
| 24 | The more resentful and unforgiving Willie Morgan , was taken to court and then had to terminate a lucrative six year contract after only nine months . |
| 25 | It was a poor situation in which to have to assume control : Palace were rock bottom of the League with only nine points from 18 matches and had crashed 1–4 at home to Millwall in the 1st round of the FA Cup ; their seventh consecutive defeat . |
| 26 | Although I was only nine , I was determined to get in . |
| 27 | The oldest known woman to give birth was fifty-seven years old , which is the equivalent of only nine feline years . |
| 28 | His parents had sent him to Oslo immediately after Hitler 's annexation of Austria , when he was only nine . |
| 29 | DAY 22 — Only nine more days to go . |
| 30 | There were sixteen riders that year , but there have been as many as twenty-two or sometimes only nine or ten . |