Example sentences of "[adj] and [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The argument is that school-leavers are mainly only temporarily unemployed and in the first few months of work are likely to switch jobs as they search for the ones that suit them best . |
| 2 | The price for the first seems high and for the second low for a house with six acres and a lodge , but it used to be the headquarters of British Coal 's opencast mining subsidiary , which can not have done it any good . |
| 3 | So if you 're Afro-American , female , below the age of 12 and with the next Do The Right Thing in the back of your mind , call Universal and ask for Spike . |
| 4 | Keep the same colour sequence throughout , marking in the first two rows any stitches knitted with col. 1 , in the second pair of rows those stitches knitted with col. 2 and in the third pair of rows the stitches knitted with col. 3 . |
| 5 | In the first volume of ‘ The Impossible Dream ’ Peter King told of the rescue and repair of the Duke taking the story through to 1985 and in the second volume he tells of the return to steam culminating in the blue riband run over the Settle and Carlisle in September 1990 . |
| 6 | But by the fourteenth century , contemplation had become something very different and in the second part of his book , Hilton explained to his nun what the modern , innovative Contemplation involved . |
| 7 | While we are on the subject of indirect taxes , will the Government tell the House how they will continue to cut direct taxes and improve public services without at the same time raising VAT as they did in 1979 and in the last Budget ? |
| 8 | Meanwhile in 1766 , Edward Snape , farrier to George III and to the second troop of Life Guards , published a proposal to establish in London what might be called a ‘ teaching hospital ’ for instruction on the diseases of horses . |
| 9 | Wallace , signed for £1.2million from Southampton , last played a League game in May 1991 and until the last fortnight it seemed his future lay away from Manchester . |
| 10 | So he decides to be cautious and for the first few laps , he just sits and waits . |
| 11 | In the sixth week of 1845 it held 260 people ; for the same week in 1846 the figure was 320 and in the last year of the Famine 893 . |
| 12 | In successive seasons , he took United from the Third to the Second and into the First Division . |
| 13 | Because in the first and second and in the third year we had very good staff who took a pride in the school . |
| 14 | He sailed for Algiers in March 1943 and during the last days of the Tunisian campaign he saw a mere fortnight 's active service . |
| 15 | The new trolleybus service was numbered 654 and for the first time there was a through service crossing the main road at West Croydon . |
| 16 | On the night of the 17th and into the next day , the Germans mounted a massive bombardment ; shells are said to have fallen at the rate of 400 a minute . |
| 17 | The children running the shop today are all aged eight and from the third year at school , but how much do they know about what the shop does . |
| 18 | Early on a wet Sunday morning outside Yaroslavl station , in the centre of Moscow , my journey was complete and for the first time in 10 days I was alone . |
| 19 | The first season I fished it I caught a solitary barbel , during the second I caught about a dozen and in the third well over fifty . |
| 20 | In the first row there are seven , in the second there are five , in the third there are three and in the fourth there is one . |
| 21 | A Thursday market had been established in 1662 and during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries many local families had prospered through their involvement not only in farming but in the lead smelting and millstone trades . |
| 22 | Certainly he played extremely well in that position after Peter Wall was injured for most of 1972–73 and in the first half of 1973–74 , and it was from that position that he captained the Palace side . |
| 23 | I was totally conscious and for the first time since my labour started I felt relaxed . |
| 24 | Troubled by a cold and a painful left shoulder , he managed only a 73 and for the third time in four starts missed the cut . |
| 25 | But the question had been unwelcome and for the first time some of his cockiness seemed to have drained from him . |
| 26 | " The neighbourhood was not very populous and during the first three days our visitors were few , some children from the village below , a gypsy woman or two with dark eyes , who carried of a few halfpence , and perhaps a chance passer by . |
| 27 | Because they were already in successful careers they were able to learn fast and by the second week our Gofer teams were veteran roadies . |
| 28 | At the first fork they must go left and at the next fork right and so on until they were challenged . |
| 29 | A draft Convention was prepared by a Special Commission of the Hague Conference in February 1964 and by the 10th Session of the Conference in the following October . |
| 30 | er Red er Leicester , I got a lump last and there was no taste at all and on the second day , we not having a proper fridge just er , a a fridge you know keeping it in store |