Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scale of private charity expanded remarkably in the mid-nineteenth century and offered considerable protection to the poor against the rigours of the Poor Law . |
| 2 | Nevertheless the data given in Table 7.2 are the most widely quoted , and illustrate that the area already affected is immense and that average rates of deforestation in these regions are sufficiently high that there is a real danger that forests will disappear altogether in the next 200 years , especially as reforestation is replacing only c. 10 per cent of the cleared forest ( Lanly 1982 ) . |
| 3 | Toys mean little in the first few weeks — you are all your baby needs . |
| 4 | A cheese resembling Camembert was the glory of Cottenham in Cambridgeshire , where records for cheese making go back to as early as 1280 ; and production ceased only in the mid-nineteenth century with the enclosure of the common fen . |
| 5 | They must be taught through benevolence and sympathy ; when the necessity arises shame may be used , but fear only in the last extremity , and then ‘ with such delicacy that if possible the habit may not gather strength by the use you are constrained to make of it ’ . |
| 6 | His financial transactions during the start-up period are listed below in the first column and are identified by capital letters . |
| 7 | Divinity degrees require some study in each of the departments listed below in the first two years of the course . |
| 8 | Notice how the sunset and the greeting are welded together in the last stanzas and are transformed into the endless journey and ‘ human sweetness ’ of the last three lines . |
| 9 | Pauper apprenticeship , like child labour in general , was not a particular novelty of the factory system , although its use in coal mining seems to have developed only in the nineteenth century and to have been largely localised to the Black Country . |
| 10 | Yet saying aloud to each other 's face , ‘ We do n't want to remain together in the next life ’ would amount to saying , ‘ No love ever existed between us , and no love exists between us now . ’ |
| 11 | He dictated to her many of the hymns that are still in use by the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist — many of whose tunes are exactly the same — bar one or two notes — as the ones the real John Wesley cobbled together in the eighteenth century . |
| 12 | Seymour committed suicide on 20 Apr. 1836 ; his illustrations appear only in the first two parts of PP ( Apr. , May 1836 ) . |
| 13 | Resettlement outside the region should be considered only in the last resort . |
| 14 | The bill , the most draconian to have been passed by any state , prohibited abortion in cases other than to save a woman 's life or in cases of rape ( if reported within five days ) or incest , where abortion would be permitted only in the first 13 weeks . |
| 15 | Again , this is a complex notion in itself , so it is hardly surprising that some respondents found it difficult to reply to the questions : Has the conceptual map of your subject changed much in the last decade ? |
| 16 | His side were not particularly inept on Saturday they were beaten by a side who would probably survive comfortably in the Second Division . |
| 17 | This probably explains why menarche the age of which er menstruation begins menarche er why the age of menarche has dropped progressively in the last century from about fifteen and a half to about twelve and a half er today . |
| 18 | The school established in East Looe , whose boys were dressed by a charitable fund in light blue coats and caps and were known as ‘ blue boys ’ , also was dissolved early in the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | Coton had made a brilliant save from Speed , again demonstrating his great versatility at right-back , to preserve that advantage and the City goalkeeper , voted No 1 in the League by his fellow professionals , went on to make other important stops from Fairclough and Wallace to thwart a predictable Leeds rally early in the second half . |
| 20 | It was rebuilt early in the 19th century by Hicks , who installed steam power . |
| 21 | On the corner of the passage-way is the Purbeck Hotel , rebuilt early in the 19th century and seen in view of Victoria Terrace . |
| 22 | Of the structures of medieval Stockport , only two sections of the town walls ( of rough dressed red sandstone ) and the chancel of the Parish church ( in decorated Gothic ) remain : the rest of the church was rebuilt early in the 19th century . |
| 23 | He was booked early in the second half for a clattering foul on Abel . |
| 24 | The theme of decentralisation is one that is pursued further in the Next Steps Initiative . |
| 25 | Accordingly , when power-looms worked by women began to appear early in the nineteenth century it " set women against women , especially young women working in the shops or mills against older married women working at home " . |
| 26 | Their numbers have dropped noticeably in the last five years and very dramatically since the 1880s , when 70 per cent of all cattle in the Netherlands were Groningens while Friesians represented only 18 per cent and were mainly restricted to Friesland and Drenthe . |
| 27 | Pat Archer , of the county council 's transportation department , said the problem had dropped slightly in the second half of last term . |
| 28 | But the ratio would then fall sharply in the second and third decades of the twenty-first century . |
| 29 | When it comes to clothes and the British high street , I think the standard has dropped radically in the last five years . |
| 30 | Speed had dropped back and Wallace moved upwards in the second half . |