Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [adv] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , for ten , twenty , forty hours or so the millions sit back to watch the show as the huge tropical storm lashes and bursts and howls its way around the islands , shaking , shuddering and drenching the place as if it held all the concentrated fury of nature and had decided to unleash it upon this one unfortunate spot . |
| 2 | It remains determined to achieve regional parity with Israel in order to compel the latter to make peace on terms favourable to itself , including a return of the Golan and possibly the 1949 demilitarized zone along the eastern edge of the Sea of Galilee to allow access to its waters . |
| 3 | However , players excel and quality rises when one 's team is being cheered on by four or five thousand enthusiastic fans and even the hundred plus that turn up here every week can lift a team , so , please , continue your support in the forthcoming season . |
| 4 | There was also the undoubted increase in her personal self-confidence and stature as a result of the recapture of the Falklands and then the 1983 and 1987 election victories . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've chased Horan and Little on more than one occasion and have yet to get my hands on them , ’ said Gibbs , who figured in the 63–6 Welsh defeat in Brisbane and then the 38–3 World Cup loss . |
| 6 | Furthermore , 66 per cent of respondents were against the return or even the 1967 refugees . |
| 7 | There were no significant differences in before treatment juice or plasma results between patients drawn from the two trials and so the two datasets were combined to increase the power of the study . |
| 8 | But there was one , remarkable throw of the dice left for England and how the 4,000 crowd loved it . |
| 9 | That , that is the the questions which we 've raised councillor over the contingency plan and also the three point five percent as opposed to . |
| 10 | Instead of having another bridesmaid , have a page boy and so the two little ones go up together page boy |
| 11 | I only knew something of all this because the girl 's mother kept in touch with me occasionally through innocent looking postcards and just the one phone call put through to our telephone me when her husband died in 1986 . |
| 12 | First the opposing air forces were brought into play and then the two sides ' arsenals of short-and medium-range projectiles , conventional artillery and surface/surface missiles . |
| 13 | On the far bank , where a tributary of the Swale forms the waterfall of East Gill Force , a short climb arrives at a lane and here the two routes part company , never again to meet : Pennine Wayfarers turn left for Tan Hill , and Coast to Coasters turn right across a bridge to follow the lane eastwards high above the gorge of the Swale to reach Crackpot Hall . |
| 14 | Well , I charged them six shillings and out the three of them went puffing their heads off . |
| 15 | But one is constantly struck by the author 's insatiable interest in the whole range of sculptural production , which refused to allow him to ignore the ceramics made under the influence of sculptors , the bronze door handles of the Hill Music Room or even the four terminal busts attached to the bookcase in the office of the Keeper of Antiquities . |
| 16 | There 's er three sizes now , that we 're down to , the seven O one O , the seven O two O which are the drum bearings and then the seven two O five which is the lead screw bearing . |
| 17 | The preliminaries on this occasion extended over a rather lengthy period and so the 150 or so guests were in pretty good form when we eventually sat down to one of the best ‘ function type ’ meals that I have ever enjoyed . |
| 18 | In 1889 , the counties were given additional responsibilities and subsequently the four largest cities became counties of cities — the equivalent of the English county boroughs . |
| 19 | These provisions were deemed discriminatory under the EC Equal Treatment Directive and consequently the 1989 Employment Act raised the age limit to 65 years for women . |
| 20 | Meese was closely involved in the appointment of cabinet members and worked with Pendleton James , the White House personnel director , to ensure that not only sub-cabinet appointments but also the 2,000 lower level political positions went , as far as possible , to candidates who were both competent and ideologically sound . |
| 21 | In London the figure is only eighty eight point four percent but even the ninety five percent figure and the eighty eight four percent figures are artificially inflated because those elements include people who have died and not have not been removed from the register , people who have emigrated , people who have otherwise moved to other parts of the country and who it is unreasonable to expect will all be seeking to make use of postal or proxy vote facilities . |
| 22 | Whilst he has this weight advantage ( you get with youth ) Id let him run at defenders but especially the 2 central ones . |
| 23 | The race is a handicap and only the 40 highest-rated horses who still wish to run on the day before the race , are permitted to post . |
| 24 | On the thorny problem of availability , Walter Puschener , European PC business manager says that shipments will not start before end-June — and even then only in limited quantities and primarily the 60/M , with shipments of the 66MHz machine remaining ‘ very restricted ’ . |
| 25 | Avostar , who was successful in the Open race at Athlone a fortnight ago is entered for the Hunt Race and also the Two Winner and should be followed wherever he runs . |
| 26 | Er bearing in mind they 've also got eight thousand pounds of earnings and so the eight thousand pounds of earnings they 've got to use that up er savings , sorry , savings not earnings er before they can actually get means tested erm and there 's a s a sliding scale between three thousand and there . |
| 27 | The recessed set then forms the 19.45 to Machynlleth and apparently the 20.50 to Pwllheli . |
| 28 | Therefore the result of the tournament and therefore the one million pounds would be decided by a ‘ sudden death ’ play-off . |
| 29 | He also reached the 1944 and 46 finals losing to Jimmy Adams and the great Fred Daly but surely the '31 decider must go down in history as one of the most one-sided ever . |
| 30 | In fact , when metals or ceramics are prepared in single-crystal form , even the common materials such as iron , aluminium , alumina and rock salt — to name only a few — are anisotropic and so not adequately described by a single modulus such as Young 's modulus or even the two moduli required for an isotropic material . |