Example sentences of "[noun prp] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They , they 're tremendously loyal and as I say , when they closed Walsall Wood Co-op we went to Aldridge the next little visit . |
| 2 | Well Peter , I 'd I 'd love to say yes , as you know , but erm they 've gone to Swindon the last two years since United have been back in the second division , and really they 've performed dismally . |
| 3 | Woman 's Own , March the seventh nineteen forty wrote , do remember that when he in capital letters , comes back , he will want to kiss the hands that have worked for him and all our brave men . |
| 4 | In March the first Soviet military units began withdrawing with their equipment from Czechoslovakia and Hungary . |
| 5 | And I joined up on March the fourth nineteen eighteen . |
| 6 | Judged on that basis , the analysis in the policy document suggested Friern as the best prospect and Claybury the second best . |
| 7 | North of Trent the last remaining royal forest was Sherwood : here the Marquess of Newcastle held a Forest Eyre in 1663 , which was continued by his deputy by way of adjournment as late as 1676 . |
| 8 | In Czechoslovakia the last Soviet tank moved out this week . |
| 9 | The Andes of Peru , for example , provided animals like the llama and alpaca which were domesticated approximately 7 kyr BP , and in the Tehuacán Valley of Mexico the first permanent agricultural systems of the Americas were developed c. 8 or 9 kyr BP . |
| 10 | From Norton Road in Malton the next 12 miles of the route continues into Norton , down to the village of Settrington and south to North Grimston . |
| 11 | By 1990 cash spending on the NHS was two and a half times what it had been in 1979 , topping £27 billion and making the DOH the second largest spending department ( NAHAT 1990 ) . |
| 12 | In Britain came the Ferranti Mark I and the Leo computer , in the United States the first Univac machine was produced . |
| 13 | In the history of the settlement of the United States the first white settlers in north America arrived in Virginia in 1607 , and by 1685 there was a serious increase in flooding caused by forest clearance . |
| 14 | Not only were Arsenal the first southern club to win the title , but their 66 points were six better than the previous high of Sheffield Wednesday the year before : 28 out of 42 games were won , only four lost , and wins , draws and losses were evenly divided between home and away ; the goals total , 127 , was one less than Aston Villa 's all-time high of the same year . |
| 15 | Iraq proclaims Kuwait the 19th Iraqi governorate . |
| 16 | At Angle in Pembrokeshire the first new slipway and boathouse to be built for 31 years is to be constructed . |
| 17 | The people of Ross on Wye claim the first British balloon flight was over the town on February the 22nd 1784 . |
| 18 | Five days later the snow melted , and on the morning of 11 February the second massive flood in seven months overtook them ; it was all very well for the town directory to speak in glowing terms of the River Frome teeming with trout , eels , and all manner of fine fish — but to the inhabitants of Pig Street that wretched river too often spelt disaster and despoliation . |
| 19 | I have received thy kind letter of February the 19th 1755 , which gave me much satisfaction : and some uneasiness , that so many years have elapsed wherein we might have reciprocally communicated our observations to each other ; and although thee had incomparably the advantage over me , yet , notwithstanding , I love to peep into the abstruse operations of nature . |
| 20 | May the thirtieth that was a Friday . |
| 21 | And I started at the General Hospital er in on May the first nineteen twenty nine . |
| 22 | Okay which says , er intr introducing our new product range of spring water available from May the first ready for the summer trade . |
| 23 | The face of Gavin Lees just after a horrific attack on May the fifteenth this year . |
| 24 | My Lords , I did not speak on the second reading of this Bill , because I spoke extremely critically on in the debate on the White Paper o on er May the 26th last year , but er I would therefore like to er commence by joining with my Right Honourable Friend Lord Whitelaw because I was so critical , in welcoming the changes which the Home Secretary has now proposed . |
| 25 | And then the annual parish council meeting was May the fourteenth last year so the corresponding date will be |
| 26 | Unadjusted unemployment rose by 122,000 in January the 22nd consecutive monthly increase to give a total of 2,673,864 or 9.4pc of the workforce . |
| 27 | In January the first real snow fell . |
| 28 | 17 year old Marita Brown was 5 months pregnant , when in the early hours of January the 24th this year , her former boyfriend , Thomas Rennie came to her home after she 'd ended their relationship . |
| 29 | So we were lucky and then we opened up on January the fourth nineteen fifty five . |
| 30 | The major success of the development of the Campos Basin has made Brazil the third largest oil producer in South America at some 25 million tonnes . |