Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was one of those such nights that at half past seven I 'd just got most of the fires set and ready to er er just on and going and I 'd half an hour to get everything straightened and ready for eight o'clock opening , and the door at the back went , which was where the office used to be . |
| 2 | Its leaders had retained a distance from the perceived excesses of militancy that began to surface and gain momentum after 1917 when opposition to the war mounted and hopeful eyes turned to Russia ( for good accounts of this period see Cole 1969 and Miliband 1973 ) . |
| 3 | Such conflict became increasingly likely after 1920 when unemployment rose as British trade failed to recover to its pre-war level . |
| 4 | Apart from a brief period after 1964 when prescription charges were removed , these charges have remained ever since and been increased regularly . |
| 5 | The pack was released each night after ten o'clock curfew , after which time anyone who disobeyed orders and remained outside the safety of the house , did so at their own peril . |
| 6 | The first person to phone marketing chief Carmel Morgan at the Everyman Theatre after 10.30 tomorrow morning with the correct answer , will win two prize seats for Saturday evening 's final performance . |
| 7 | Furthermore , in the period after 1944 when selection for secondary schools through the 11 + examination predominated , girls ' 11 + performances were weighted differently to boys ' performances so that girls achieved fewer places than their examination results indicated , and boys achieved more places than their results merited . |
| 8 | During the summer of 1943 when wartime industrial production in the USA was nearing its peak , a wave of absenteeism swept through women working in key areas of the US war effort to the extent that the FBI were called in to investigate whether some elaborate form of Axis sabotage was afoot . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the Treasurer suggested that the worst was probably over , and that the recession would not be as deep as that of 1982/83 when GDP had declined for four consecutive quarters and both inflation and unemployment had exceeded 10 per cent . |
| 10 | He retired from active service at the end of the war but was recalled in the early summer of 1648 when Parliament found itself facing a serious mutiny in the fleet . |
| 11 | This is an imaginary trip during the summer of 1957 when steam still ruled on British Rail metals . |
| 12 | LORD Spencer 's death might have served to remind this country of the dread winter of 1978/1979 when rubbish was uncollected in the streets , the fire brigades were on strike , hospitals were picketed by auxiliary workers who demanded to approve all surgical operations , housewives fought each other over a cauliflower leaf and the dead lay unburied in every churchyard . |
| 13 | That means that nine out of ten never mate . |
| 14 | During the upheaval of 1905–7 overall membership leaped upwards , the Social Democrats claiming as many as 150,000 members . |
| 15 | As I say I , that 's why , that 's really why I was expecting you more towards twelve o'clock time . |
| 16 | In the summer of 1973 when Pursuit was on its way to the printers , the BBC sent me to Washington to cover the Senate Watergate hearings . |
| 17 | I awoke at the sounding of five o'clock reveille , shivering in the bitter cold . |
| 18 | Johnny was a Canadian hush pilot before the war and was fortunate to survive the trough of despair in the spring and early summer of 1942 when survival chances were at their lowest ( see graph on page 85 ) . |
| 19 | The output of goods and services declined sharply in the fourth quarter ; preliminary estimates suggested that gross national product ( GNP ) in the quarter fell at an annual rate of 2.1 per cent ( after adjustments for inflation and seasonal factors ) , the sharpest fall since the third quarter of 1982 when GNP fell at an annual rate of 3.2 per cent . |
| 20 | Overuse can lead to pollution , declining groundwater levels and , eventually , to trouble of one sort or another ; internecine feuds were reported in southern Spain in the summer of 1983 when river levels were at an all-time low . |
| 21 | On the other hand , Maryon Lane , one of two further South African girls ( the other being Patricia Miller ) who joined in August 1947 , thinks the chief cause of ill-will had been the obnoxious behaviour of one person , and says she herself never suffered from resentment but was accepted by the company where everyone seemed like family . |
| 22 | Sinks through 5 a.m. silence and frost . |
| 23 | And erm er from what I 've seen I mean people are often at football games for ten o'clock kick off and so on , which means er that 's just one example , which means they could be away , half past eight in the morning . |
| 24 | The real explosion in calls , particularly from isolated people , happened in 1977–8 when Switchboard began to advertise in local papers and Tom Robinson put the phone number on the single sleeve of ‘ Glad To Be Gay ’ . |
| 25 | As David Griffiths ( 1970 ) points out , these two élite factions had not met since the notorious Bonnington Conference in 1948 when war between two views of drama educators was openly declared . |
| 26 | In 1986 when Shin Beth murdered two Arab terrorist suspects they had taken into custody there was some local outcry but in the end the agency was protected by the government . |
| 27 | One such chance came in 1986 when coffee prices ( exports ) went up and oil prices ( imports ) went down . |
| 28 | The London Boroughs had last been contested in 1986 when Labour won exactly half of all the seats and a small plurality in votes cast — see Table 1 . |
| 29 | The cotton weavers of Lancashire made a similar point in 1799 when claiming that piece rates had been more than halved since 1792 . |
| 30 | While the process of evolving an all-new and unique Bentley coupe began as early as 1984 with the commissioning of design studies and quarter-scale models , work did not begin in earnest until 1986 when experience from the Turbo R and other developments was available . |