Example sentences of "[adv] the [adj] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patients were asked to write down the highest of three blows for the paper and pencil diary and to enter the values of all three blows into the computer . |
| 2 | The reaction of the major institutions , particularly the polytechnics , was predictably in favour of Model B , as perhaps the lesser of two evils . |
| 3 | But at the time the government decided that it was perhaps the lesser of two evils , especially when all the anticipated dam-aging domestic and foreign implications of refusal were taken into account . |
| 4 | The latest issue of the Government 's annual Social Trends shows that while the level of rail travel has remained much the same for 30 years , car travel has increased fourfold . |
| 5 | Bloxham High Street is much the same in 1992 as 1946 . |
| 6 | The dead were merely the latest of hundreds of townsfolk murdered or ‘ disappeared ’ during the 1980s . |
| 7 | Frau Trauffer and her daughter began to bring in the first of six bountiful courses . |
| 8 | Until the beginning of the industrial revolution , there was a rough balance which kept the earth 's temperature more or less the same from one year to the next . |
| 9 | Their Lordships agree that the mere existence or recital of a prior request is not sufficient in itself to convert what is prima facie past consideration into sufficient consideration in law to support a promise , as they have indicated , it is only the first of three necessary preconditions . |
| 10 | As time went on , and the sultans who succeeded Mehmed II built their own medreses , the Sahn slipped from its position as the highest class of medreses , and , in the fully elaborated hierarchy , is only the sixth of twelve grades above the 40-akce level . |
| 11 | The crash of 1974 was far and away the biggest since 1929 . |
| 12 | The sequence of observations was broadly the same with one significant exception . |
| 13 | HEARD in a City tavern last night : ‘ I expect my husband to be just the same in 20 years time as he is now . ’ |
| 14 | Socio-economic problems remained largely the same in 1905–14 and 1922 in Kursk guberniia ( though not of course in the Lower Volga area on account of the Famine ) . |
| 15 | How sad to see one of our senior trade union officials doing exactly the same in 1992 . |
| 16 | Using Nirex 's own figures , the report concludes that groundwater contaminated by the radioactive waste could reach the surface within 300 years , not the tens of thousands of years which the company has claimed . |
| 17 | Similarly , when Mill tries to explain how we can decide which is qualitatively the better of two pleasures , his actual answer is more or less that the higher pleasure is the one which is actually more liked by those in a position to compare them . |
| 18 | Holmewood 's ‘ whistling ’ bridge ( it made noises if the wind was blowing through the rafters from the right direction ) has just been passed by K3 No. 60896 as it heads a southbound coal train up the 1 in 100 in about 1961 . |
| 19 | At an EC-organized conference in Nicosia , Cyprus , in April 1990 ministers from 16 countries adopted a " Nicosia charter " to combat pollution and clean up the Mediterranean by 2025 . |
| 20 | Paul Rideout 's first league goal for Everton was also the first by one of the club 's strikers at The City Ground for almost 23 years - and brought their first league win at Nottingham Forest for more than 10 years . |
| 21 | But please leave out the 0–60 in 7.5 seconds , forget that it 's faster than a Ferrari Mondial from 50 to 70 m.p.h . |
| 22 | From Table 4.1 we can see that the ‘ total working and available for work ’ in Northern Tyne side was roughly the same in 1984 as it had been in 1972 , i.e. under 300 000 . |
| 23 | ‘ This means that the number of women acquiring HIV per year can not be counted in the thousands , or even the hundreds of thousands , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Oh Deborah was moaning cos she went to a party the other last one this week , I think at the beginning of the week , and the had Joey the clown and Mr Nuttey , she said oh I 'd like them , but Sue said she went sort of a bit earlier and see how they got on and eh , she said oh it was n't the same at five , they did n't respond and . |
| 25 | So I 'll start with the first one and I 'll pass it round and just put either the relaxing on one hand and the reviving on the other and you 'll have one hand relaxed the other one doing this . |
| 26 | Among mature students the proportions gaining good degrees did not vary much however the 26 to 30 age group again came top . |
| 27 | SWISS skier Franz Heinzer bids to complete a hat-trick of downhill successes when the first of two World Cup races begin in Val Gardena , Italy today . |
| 28 | It was another sign of changing times when the British from 1967 began to embark upon more joint defence procurement programmes with the Europeans — notably the multinational collaborative effort which produced the Tornado fighter-bomber . |
| 29 | It 's never the same from one day to the next . ’ |
| 30 | The process is much the same in each negotiating situation ; actual bargaining is seldom the same from one issue to another . |