Example sentences of "[adj] [num] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomas Cook 's UK travel agency network had its best year ever last year and plans are under way to increase the current branch network of 340 by at least another 100 over the next two years . |
| 2 | ‘ In Cup competitions we have lost only once against five teams in the top six of the First Division . |
| 3 | He 's taken them from the old Fourth to the top three in the First Division . |
| 4 | Miller went on to express his admiration for the depth of Leeds resources , saying ‘ They started with 3 internationals in Midfield , then put on another three in the second half ! ! ’ |
| 5 | If I can manage another 69 in the second round perhaps I will feel a bit better , but not yet . ’ |
| 6 | ten and a half thousand from the first of July onwards for this year . |
| 7 | But Graeme Hick arrived to help Gooch add a further 80 for the second wicket — Hick driving Tim May straight for six and also including five fours in his 36 . |
| 8 | Thankfully , ‘ Dirty ’ , the Sonics ' recent Geffen album , entered the UK Top Ten during the first week of release and , even if it has a long way to go to equal the sales of ‘ Nevermind ’ , things could be taking a turn for the better . |
| 9 | And Price 's win lifted him into the top ten for the first time . |
| 10 | The latest league table ( up to July 1992 ) of the value of the US installed computer base , compiled every six months by La Jolla , California-based Computer Intelligence Corp , includes a Unix machine in the top ten for the first time , among the IBM and Amdahl mainframes , AS/400s and Cray -YMPs . |
| 11 | R108 ] , with a further 156,000 in the first five months of 1992 . |
| 12 | According to a report published on Dec. 5 by the human rights organization Amnesty International , more than 5,000 people had been executed in Iran in the past three years , including some 2,500 during the last six months of 1988 coinciding with a crackdown on left-wing dissidents [ see pp. 36630-31 ] . |
| 13 | The stairway went up ten stairs to a landing with a large window , then up another ten to the first floor . |
| 14 | To make it purposeful one of the first steps is to define carefully what children are expected to get out of this work . |
| 15 | We had another seventy miles till London and at least another fifteen until the next junction where I could get out . |
| 16 | Adams supplied the application and concentration absent from the other batsmen and coaxed another 99 from the last three wickets with improbable but important help from his fellow Jamaicans , Walsh and Patterson . |
| 17 | Liverpool 's defeat , which threatens to prevent them finishing in the top five for the first time since their initial season back in the First Division 30 years ago , was again due to the unpredictable goalkeeping of Grobbelaar . |
| 18 | Radio stations attracted a total audience of 41.6 million during the last quarter of 1992 , it said . |
| 19 | According to the Agriculture Ministry , since BSE was first identified in May 1986 a total of 13,849 cases had been confirmed in Britain as of May 23 , 1990 , and another 1,000 over the next four weeks ; the disease was made notifiable throughout the EC on April 1 , and the Republic of Ireland had 18 notified cases . |
| 20 | ENGLAND have two squash players in the world 's top seven for the first time in more than a decade . |
| 21 | By the time the Corporation 's new cars were ready for delivery , Penge depôt in Oak Grove Road was sufficiently advanced for the cars to be stored there , together with the remaining eight of the first batch . |
| 22 | More than 60 emancipated years later the regiment of women MPs had advanced to a mere 43 in the last Parliament . |
| 23 | When he took his second 6 at the ninth after tangling with bushes , he looked a lost cause . |
| 24 | In 437 one of the last pagan aristocrats allowed himself to be converted on his deathbed by his conspicuously pious niece , perhaps from fear of less gentle pressure from the emperor . |
| 25 | What the camera can not reveal is when you set off on the second nine from the 10th tee , by the time you reach the green you have travelled nearly 60 feet downhill . |
| 26 | That was just how it was after that magical 68 in the second round . |
| 27 | Courier , the title-holder and second seed , overwhelmed fellow-American Michael Chang 6–2 6–7 6–0 in the second semi-final . |
| 28 | The overall number of those above pension age in Great Britain is expected to remain very close to 10 million for the next 20 years . |
| 29 | According to one estimate , these abuses and the ravages of European diseases and starvation reduced the indigenous population of the Americas from 100 to 10 million in the first century of conquest . |
| 30 | That brings it down to a hundred and ninety six for the first year . |