Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only 2 grounds I know in Scumland are ‘ Maine Road ’ and ‘ Swine Park ’ . |
| 2 | While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights . |
| 3 | While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights . |
| 4 | In only six years it has become a significant nature reserve in its own right . |
| 5 | Paddy Smith 's 8F 48151 powers it way up the Furness mainline . |
| 6 | The thought of us going to America only three times it 's upset her . |
| 7 | This , Mwangaza ( ‘ Light ’ ) , was later to become the first Swahili daily , but although it cost only three cents it never achieved sales higher than about 1,400 . |
| 8 | ‘ In only three hours I will be delivering the most difficult speech of my life . |
| 9 | Having milked his seventy-five Friesian cows , he set about the main business of the day , loading Norton 's Coin , one of only three horses he trained under permit on his farm , into the horsebox , then taking the wheel to drive his stable star to Cheltenham . |
| 10 | After only three years we are now caring for one in four of those dying with AIDS in the UK . |
| 11 | In only three days I shall be free to leave for Israel . ’ |
| 12 | Reactors to the TB test were first found in their herd in January 1986 but after only three months they got the all-clear again . |
| 13 | Write down three things you like about yourself : |
| 14 | Anyone who enjoys this repertoire is likely to find this an attractive disc — not perhaps , as gemütlich as one would like in the Viennese numbers , but certainly possessing a certain straightforward charm of its own , even if at only 50 minutes it 's somewhat underfilled . |
| 15 | Predicting : students look at the title of the passage and discuss their expectations in pairs ; they then write down ten words they expect to find ; they then read the passage and see if their words appear . |
| 16 | Two up and playing only ten men you 'd think Oxford would have walked it , but then Dave Bamber bustled through to score . |
| 17 | Write down five things you would like to do in that one year . |
| 18 | Write down five things you would do in that time . |
| 19 | In only five weeks I shall be getting married to Annabelle . |
| 20 | In a very brief account of his journey , Thomas Garvine referred to only 8 places he had visited between St. Petersburg and Peking . |
| 21 | Take it , and in the space of only twenty miles you pass through a rapid summary of all the Pyrenean landscapes : high pasture first of all , nowhere richer than near the Col du Soul or , with a backing of the fearsome granite of the Cirque de Lit or ; then , after the village of Arbéost , dense woodland and the gorge of the river ; then suddenly open , more or less flat country , well cultivated , and you are out of the mountains for good . |
| 22 | In business only four years she already has a turnover of half a million pounds and supplys one outfit a year to the young princes William and Harry . |
| 23 | But after only four miles he began to realize just how far he would have to walk . |
| 24 | He , she said I dare n't leave them together two minutes she said our Liza 'll play hell out of our Alan ! |
| 25 | So four winners you 've given us , any news about the track , to tell everybody for the next week ? |
| 26 | There 's only two teachers I 've got , him and Miss |
| 27 | There are only two things you need to know about the new Grand Prix season which kicks off in Kyalami , outside Johannesburg this Sunday . |
| 28 | No , they 're the only two things I 'm getting out of there . |
| 29 | His gloom was reinforced because the Lebanese embassy had just refused him a visa and the only two countries he thought he could get into were Jordan and Romania , neither of which were likely to offer him employment . |
| 30 | The only two dates I have ever been able to remember are the date of my birth and 1066 , the year that William the Conqueror first visited England . |