Example sentences of "[noun] of [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McCrum had his eye on a century when he cruelly slipped at the crease and was run out , but his stand of for the second wicket with John Gilliland , who made 32 , put his side firmly in the driving seat . |
| 2 | there 's a thousand pound he said , you know , if you can make it right sort of over the next month but he said basically I can not do anything until erm the end of February , he said you come in the end of February he said and then we can start to sort it out , he said I ca n't do anything for you until then . |
| 3 | Yeah well she 's sort of with the third year and will admit she 's so fed up ! |
| 4 | Oh Lord , we did so many extravagant things — all sort of at the last minute . |
| 5 | The most accomplished of the Benin castings are the high relief plaques of around the 17th century . |
| 6 | These were lots 228 , a South Indian bronze figure of Siva-Nataraja of around the eleventh century , estimated at Rs 75,00,000–85,00,000 , and 238 , a South Indian bronze figure of Sukhasana Siva , Chola , of around the twelfth century , estimated at Rs 50,00,000–60,00,000 . |
| 7 | In the south you will find Crux Australis , the Southern Cross , which is not genuinely X-shaped ; it is more like a kite , but it contains three stars of above the second magnitude . |
| 8 | There are two stars of between the fourth and fifth magnitudes , one rather brighter than the other , making up a wide naked-eye pair . |
| 9 | Branson had drawn up what was to become known as the ‘ Million List ’ — the number of things that had to be taken care of in the next three months before the airline could fly . |