Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Companies in future will be able to write off against taxes only the first $1 million of what they pay any director or executive . |
| 2 | We have n't got to the reselling stage with these yet because we 've been going about six months so the first resale is eighteen months away . |
| 3 | Two months later the first of the workmen moved in . |
| 4 | It 's our duty anyway to get these words though the last minutes of discussion have been possibly the most valuable cos if we can not use language accurately |
| 5 | On there you see it does say six o'clock Olympics today the first two runs in the four man bobsleigh , sport on Friday at two twenty five |
| 6 | And they gave thanks when the first buds appeared in spring . |
| 7 | This raises interesting questions about what actually does happen to such relationships when the third party is no longer there , that is , when the marriage is broken through death or divorce . |
| 8 | So if you 're a third man , or a third woman for that matter , look out for the specially selected hotels at which you can make some fantastic savings when a third person shares a room . |
| 9 | The decades following the Second World War saw an historically unprecedented growth in retirement at a fixed age for all social classes . |
| 10 | IN the three decades following the Second World War , Scotland experienced an explosion of building and reconstruction on a scale unknown since the Industrial Revolution , driven by powerful political , social and architectural forces . |
| 11 | This project explores the range of public attitudes to those new technologies and technical changes which characterised the inter-war years and the two decades following the Second World War . |
| 12 | In the two decades following the Second World War , secondary schools were divided into grammar and secondary modern schools . |
| 13 | However , in both trials almost a third of randomised individuals were excluded from the analysis either because of loss to follow up or insufficient compliance with medication , and an analysis by intention to treat could not be reconstructed from the data presented nor from data still with the principal author ( personal communication ) . |
| 14 | Mountains fell and there were mountains again the next day . |
| 15 | Indeed , the intention of the English negotiators when the Second Treaty of London was drawn up may well have been to make the French an offer they would be bound to refuse . |
| 16 | In areas where a first generation immigrant community was being established , the invitation into schools was often received with some apprehension and not a little disbelief . |
| 17 | I was six and a half years the , the minister of Whalsay and Skerries where the first er centre h ha has been built and there was rejoicing in that community that the that social responsibility had been invited by the council to join in this work . |
| 18 | A few days later a second action brought by the newly created Commissioner for the Rights of Trade Union Members seeking an injunction was rejected by the High Court . |
| 19 | Eight days later the first Duke of Wellington was calling on her with reports of a coming clash : the king 's desired divorce from Queen Caroline . |
| 20 | A link-up with the western end from Kalgoorlie was finally made on October 17 , 1917 and five days later the first passenger train completed the historic crossing . |
| 21 | Ed. note : Two weeks later the first commode was delivered to Maria Frantzia . |
| 22 | In the 1860s a line was built along the path of the old moat and then out to the new dock at Neufahrwasser ( Nowy Port ) , and ten years later a second branch line went on up the coast to Koszalin . |
| 23 | Two years later the first noteworthy visitor arrived from overseas , Dr Paul Hermann , Professor of Botany at Leyden . |
| 24 | Three years later the first psychiatric clinics were held at Sighthill . |
| 25 | Two years later the first monuments were taken into care , and many more followed . |
| 26 | The field was discovered in 1974 and 10 years later the first gas flowed ashore . |
| 27 | After a period of apparent — and perhaps misleading — political stability in the first twenty-five years following the Second World War , the 1970s seem to have marked some sort of turning-point for the British political system . |
| 28 | This process has accelerated in the twentieth century and , we argue , reached completion in the twenty years following the Second World War . |
| 29 | We must remember that there was no compulsory army conscription in Britain — compulsion in schools was bad enough , and standing armies had long been anathema to the ‘ freeborn Englishman ’ — and it was not until the years following the Second World War that compulsory national service would come into existence in peace-time Britain . |
| 30 | In the years following the Second World War the European colonial powers retained control over a large number of military and naval bases among their colonies . |