Example sentences of "[conj] [num] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In her own words : ‘ I left home on the 9.30 a.m. train to attend a Medau class in London , travelled across to Balham in time for music , followed by the evening of training , then still in track suit back to Paddington for the 10.30 p.m. train , arriving home at 1 or 2 a.m. the next day . |
| 2 | In the seventeenth century Russia and the Ottoman empire had seemed to many European observers not altogether dissimilar ; and of the two the latter appeared until the 1680s or 1690s clearly the more powerful . |
| 3 | Well he , if he co if he 'd have come down my wa he come down at eight or nine o'clock the shops would have been shut . |
| 4 | I remember visiting a year or two ago a project in Mexico , where an American organization had moved in and made a careful study , decided that the ideal thing for the local people to do would be to raise chickens , so they put fences up , supplied them with goodness knows how many hundred thousand chickens ; within a year they 'd killed the chickens , pulled the fences down and used them to cook the chickens and they were back exactly where they were . |
| 5 | A moment or two later a man who , from his lanky form and fine-boned features , could only be her fiancé , Lord Woodleigh , emerged , evidently doing his best to overcome a certain reluctance . |
| 6 | But , although the construction company 's overlord continued to stay away , a day or two later a gang of his labourers moved on to the land which surrounded her house . |
| 7 | They were only just in time , for a minute or two later a procession appeared at the top of the hill and began to make its way slowly down . |
| 8 | '' A day or two later an earthquake shook the whole area and the same thing happened : ‘ ’ the Lord was not in the earthquake . ’ |
| 9 | A day or two later the policeman called and was told about the strange experiences . |
| 10 | A day or two later the baby will be back , crimson-eared , or whoofing with croup . |
| 11 | A month or two later the alarm sounded again . |
| 12 | A second or two later the powerful beam of the flashlight cut through the darkness . |
| 13 | " Even at one or two a.m. the night before , we were not sure we could go there , " said the Queen later . |
| 14 | At that instant control called to announce that there was an Air Raid warning and put out all the lights , followed immediately by bombs exploding on the airfield , I knew the airfield well and I stuck to my heading and switched on my landing light just to " feel " the ground , landed and rolled along until I felt a sharp jerk and a bash or two then a complete halt . |
| 15 | We may roughly classify problems connected with fishing industries as those which are affected by very quick changes , such as uncertainties of the weather ; or by changes of moderate length , such as the increased demand for fish caused by the scarcity of meat during the year or two following a cattle plague . [ … ] |
| 16 | 1993 was the date of the gift and this is later than 1991 so the relevant period is 1993 to 1998 . |
| 17 | If the present state is F then if pr is less than 0.77 then the state remains F or else the state becomes C. If the present state is C then if pr is less than 0.24 then the state becomes F or else the state remains C. The values 0.77 and 0.24 are obtained from the transition probability matrix shown in Table 6.4 . |
| 18 | If the present state is F then if pr is less than 0.77 then the state remains F or else the state becomes C. If the present state is C then if pr is less than 0.24 then the state becomes F or else the state remains C. The values 0.77 and 0.24 are obtained from the transition probability matrix shown in Table 6.4 . |
| 19 | From the 1670s and 1680s onwards the colourful and varied light-weight fabrics known as ‘ Norwich Stuffs ’ became fashionable and gave a new stimulus to an old industry . |
| 20 | On Nov. 6 and 7 respectively the House and Senate approved the conference-reconciled version of the human services appropriations bills which they had enacted in September [ see p. 38428 ] . |
| 21 | Between 1838 and 1859 over a dozen important books were published on the subject as well as a host of articles . |
| 22 | On Oct. 17 and 18 respectively the German and Polish lower houses of parliament ( the Bundestag and the Sejm ) ratified the border treaty signed on Nov. 14 , 1990 [ see p. 37867 ] , and the friendship treaty signed on June 17 , 1991 [ see p. 38306 ] . |
| 23 | On Nov. 13 and 17 respectively the court ruled that Stoph , who had not been well enough to attend the previous day and had heart problems , and Mielke were too ill stand trial . |
| 24 | Until the franchise process is complete for both Channel 3 and 5 even a preliminary sketch is difficult . |
| 25 | The penguins are fed at 11.00 a.m. and 4.00 p.m. every day except on a Friday . |
| 26 | The teacher found that four could read Messrs Nelson 's Shilling Book , six the Sixpenny Book , and ten only the Threepenny Book " With the " board schools " in their infancy , it was by no means clear that it would have been possible to recruit many girls of working-class origin into the trade in the early 1870s . |
| 27 | Not when I was there of course it was er it was er er radio was there you know and we we called up the shore station at Ered at nine o'clock one o'clock and five o'clock every day unless there was er a fault in the radio which we were usually able to overcome . |
| 28 | And she said er Angela said to her oh poor Neil has to stays in bed until one o'clock every Saturday and then on Sunday he has a he gets up late and then he has a long rest in the afternoon and Pam said to me he 's copping out . |
| 29 | All right let's see if we can get you a bugler nobody 's ringing at the moment but you want a bugler for a week on Sunday the fourteenth to blow reveille and the Last Post at eleven o'clock and twelve o'clock a week on Sunday at Calverton in Nottinghamshire . |
| 30 | Between 1871 and 1901 alone the number of towns with populations over 50,000 doubled . |