Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | Quite a bit there er when you lay it out like that in a pattern a thought pattern which shows just how much er we did actually get through er from where you started at ten in the morning or just after with the presentation right through to the second presentation . |
2 | Came home , went to bed , slept right through to the next morning , and then you would n't know that anything had happened to him . |
3 | ‘ Did you , ’ Markby asked patiently for about the third or fourth time , ‘ intend to make her fall ? ’ |
4 | He will , however , be away for about the next six weeks . |
5 | Harrington 's fortunes rose steeply for about the first 150 generations . |
6 | A few stars have been known to undergo more than one major outburst ; the ‘ Blaze Star ’ , T Coronæ in the Northern Crown , is usually of about the tenth magnitude , but flared up to naked-eye visibility in 1866 and again in 1946 . |
7 | The middle sister discovered the body when she came home at about the sixth hour of night . ’ |
8 | Where are we after the Kids ' County you know what you rang up for in the first place ? |
9 | If there is make up on from the first erm removal , then you could then take off the make up with the first application and then go over twice more , so it would be three times if you 've got quite a lot of base or foundation on . |
10 | Oh yes , there were Well , all the erm boys from up to about the fifth form , in the old pupil-teachers training centre went , er was formed by joining that and school , they took boys from there . |
11 | Over the first course I made the usual polite inquiries about Sally 's new job and asked her what she had been up to for the last half-dozen years or so . |
12 | It would , of course , be unthinkable to actually put down in print what Rex and Laura got up to during the next hour . |
13 | Some of the wacky and wonderful things people got up to in the last ITV Telethon 2 years ago . |
14 | Getting its timing just right — and hoping to be the Chips and Technologies Inc of its breed — Santa Clara , California start-up Nimbus Technologies Inc will next week come out with with the first chipset , targeted at the compatible builders , which is tailored for use with the superscalar Sparcs — Viking and HyperSparc — both due in the second half of the year , see above . |
15 | And this little weird group existed in the seventeenth century , never numbered more than about two hundred , and dwindled in number , and was supposed to have died out in about the nineteenth century . |
16 | I 'm going back now to before the First World War , sometime in the early years of this century . |
17 | Eva needed the knowledge of that power beyond her own to cling on to over the next few months . |
18 | Those are the two other issues that I want to get on to in the last part of the programme . |
19 | All his savings , which he had worked so hard for in the last ten years , had been spent on renting the farm . |
20 | He played the first 11 well enough , but the putts refused to drop apart from at the eighth and 10th , where first he faced little chips . |
21 | We watched as the kite swept across the valley , ascending so high that it was just a speck in the distance , and then swooping gracefully over the horizon , to appear again from behind the next hill . |
22 | Finally , we 've got to bring the players back to earth a bit , but two absolute cracking games to look forward to in the next couple of weeks ; Oldham next week , probably the best footballing side in the second division , and away to Swindon the week after , so still a lot to look forward to although disappointment at going out of the Cup . |
23 | okay , round the base of your thumb , basically what we want to do is we want to clamp these fingers in so they ca n't come un unstuck , we want to push them together because she ca n't keep them shut like that , but the next thing is that you come round to the back where the little finger is , the next time you come round here , you 're gon na come round to about the first thumb joint okay and then you 're gon na go over the top okay and if you come round again the little thumb , by , by the little finger , you come round again to the thumb joint okay , come over the top again , round , we 're just making really like the figure of eight , but all the time we 're keeping off of this wrist here and I 'm keeping her fingers in , are you alright still ? |
24 | A LUNCH for close to 90 people , mostly Estate Agents , was held on by on the third floor of ‘ One ’ Great Tower Street ( the old headquarters of ) to mark the completion of the re-development started in January 1989 . |