Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the final analysis the full impact of reform will be felt most keenly by the thousands of Scottish men and women whose income falls the wrong side of the line . |
| 2 | In January 1871 there were 166,407 female out-door paupers in England and Wales ; in January 1891 only 53,371 , despite the fact that the policy was pursued less vigorously in the 1880s than in the preceding decade . |
| 3 | Our permanency planning has been a two-stage affair , but we never got our preventive and rehabilitative act together properly in the 1960s . |
| 4 | Japanese economic competition was feared , although the anxiety was based more on memories of competition in the 1930s than the new competition that developed so vigorously in the 1960s . |
| 5 | We may regret some inevitable omissions — but a fair conspectus of Ferrier 's repertory has been preserved for posterity with the one great regret — the absence of her Angel in Gerontius , which I heard her sing under Barbirolli so memorably at the 1952 Edinburgh Festival . |
| 6 | The palazzo looks so much like a 1950s cinema ( or is it a small-town railway station ? ) , with its curves and ornate super-structure , that it comes as a surprise to learn that it is seventeenth-century . |
| 7 | The trend towards consolidation slowed down somewhat in the 1970s . |
| 8 | Besides the top six , coming in just below the million pounds for their year 's labour were two directors grossing 900,000 ( $1,440,000 ) . |
| 9 | Early in this section it was pointed out that not all organisations fit in easily to the three level structure . |
| 10 | It 's only just after the one world week thing . |
| 11 | He spoke only once during the eight minute hearing , to say he understood the proceedings . |
| 12 | Coventry v Southampton Having just won at Liverpool for the first time , Coventry ought to be in the mood to take Southampton even though the latter have lost only once in a dozen games . |
| 13 | Our discussion this time will restrict itself much more to the two chosen passages , and will need only to take a brief look at a few details of the narratives leading up to them , and at the stories that immediately follow them . |
| 14 | Yes , the same thing is like erm , if I do , the rest of the shop for the rest of the d , that day , but I do goods the next night , erm , that shop 's okay for the next day , and it 's , it 's only like on a one day basis . |
| 15 | They did so gradually during the 1960s — raising the share of cash flow taken by net interest payments from 5% in 1960 to 15% in 1970 — but then cut back . |
| 16 | The February index provides renewed evidence of a slowdown although the average 7.3 p.c. rise is only marginally below the 7.5 p.c. recorded in the October index . |
| 17 | The proportions differed only slightly in the 1987 general election . |
| 18 | So far over the two days there have only been five sub par rounds out of the 186 played . |
| 19 | So far of the thousand locusts a couple of hundred have perished or been eaten by the scorpions . |
| 20 | These services will be flown by 450 former Dan-Air flight and cabin crew , the only jobs saved so far from the 2,000 permanent Dan-Air staff . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm only here for the one night . ’ |
| 22 | Sotheby 's expert Melanie Clore emphasises that Matisse has alway been an artist for discerning collectors and was never speculated in even during the 1988–90 period like Picasso and Renoir . |
| 23 | Er shall I pop in tomorrow with the two hundred pound for Norwich then ? |
| 24 | It 's down here as a hundred . |
| 25 | It has now been conveyed to the rest of us , and we should not too quickly dismiss the thought that this message might resonate usefully in Nicaragua , in Iran and the Lebanon , and perhaps even in the two Germanys . |
| 26 | So why did the British Greens ( to take the national party which won the highest percentage of the vote ) do so well in the 1989 Euro-elections ? |
| 27 | It was unsurprising that , with Johannes Rau as their candidate for Chancellor , they fared even less well in the 1987 election ( with 37 per cent of the vote ) than they had four years before . |
| 28 | Indeed , for most of the inhabitants of the countries in which xenophobia is now epidemic , the old ways of life have changed so drastically since the 1950s that there is very little of them left to defend . |
| 29 | During the nineteenth century , as more people survived their last child leaving home , it became a particularly important form of support , with perhaps a quarter of working-class older people in some towns taking in boarders : a pattern which persisted until young people began to marry much earlier in the 1950s , setting up on their own instead — and leaving more of the old on their own . |
| 30 | This is Brando 's first film since 1980 and it 's good that his old campaigning fire was still sufficiently there under the millions and the sloth to pull him into this . |