Example sentences of "[adj] of the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 22-year-old Edgar was clear of the first three horses she rode in a World Championship final style event . |
| 2 | Midnight shrugged , not wanting to talk about the old slave days in Spanish Town or Montserrat , walking her along , keeping clear of the last idling stragglers . |
| 3 | But whereas they had been held for just a few years by his grandfather and father , they were in royal hands for thirty-one of the last forty years of Edward III 's reign , from 1337 to 1360 and then from 1369 onwards to the end of the century . |
| 4 | As half of the first full-time two man drug squad in the North-East of England , I was tasked with defining and dealing with the new social aberration of ‘ flower power ’ , ‘ the counter culture ’ , and the ‘ psychedelic trip ’ . |
| 5 | But I reckon the company has made CPP losses in more than half of the last 15 years . |
| 6 | And although yesterday 's total is nearly 40,000 below the region 's high of the last five years nearly 192,000 , reached in June 1987 their plans will stop it being surpassed they argue . |
| 7 | ‘ The greatest mistake any adversary could make would be to doubt America 's resolve during this period of transition , ’ Clinton said in a statement outside the Arkansas governor 's mansion in Little Rock , where he has lived for 12 of the last 14 years . |
| 8 | STEFFI GRAF shook off a sluggish start against Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere by winning 12 of the last 13 games to roar into the U.S. Open final at Flushing Meadow . |
| 9 | As an eminent American economist once remarked , ‘ The Stock Market has anticipated 10 out of the last 3 recessions and 12 of the last 3 recoveries ! ’ |
| 10 | Up 3–1 in the first set , she conceded 12 of the next 13 points and , at one stage in the second set , she lost another 14 consecutive points . |
| 11 | Bull has already revealed details of its Integrated Systems Management effort , based around the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Management Environment , and is now working on some of the first practical applications to run on top . |
| 12 | Some of the first newly-planned settlements were established by Victorian industrialists themselves , but a long process of government legislation culminated in the passing , between 1945 and 1950 , of comprehensive Town and Country Planning legislation , including provision for New Towns and National Parks but also a characteristically negative policy toward the expansion of cities themselves . |
| 13 | With a dry wit and an infectious Brooklyn drawl , Karen , as part of the Flatbush-based Soulboys group of club-runners , was responsible for some of the first illegal parties in New York , as well as having the much-coveted job of doorperson at various Manhattan clubs . |
| 14 | Both were headed by Prof. R.B. Le Page , who had produced some of the first linguistic studies of Jamaican Creole about twenty years previously ( Le Page 1961 ; Le Page and De Camp 1960 ; Cassidy and Le Page 1980 , originally published 1967 ) . |
| 15 | Timber staithes remain at this port on the River Tyne , some of the last such structures built in the nineteenth century as wharves for unloading coal from the railway on to waiting ships . |
| 16 | The difference between those spending all and those spending some of the last twelve months in a home persisted when the analysis is confined to those for whom relatives responded . |
| 17 | But when he suddenly took ill and returned to Hollywood to undergo surgery for lung cancer , his son Christopher helped polish up some of the last few scenes . |
| 18 | Bankside was the work of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott , OM , the architect of Liverpool 's Anglican Cathedral , the rebuilt House of Commons and some of the last vital products of the Gothic Revival . |
| 19 | The show illustrates in two large sections the period from the election in 1024 of the first Salien king , Konrad II , to the death in 1125 of his great-grandson Emperor Heinrich V. The first , introduced by historical maps of the period , illustrates the everyday life and working environment of people of different social strata . |
| 20 | Okay , if we do it to the fourteenth of the second ninety four , er and then that 'd come up , I can tell you what we cos Peter 's just is halfway through it with Well I say halfway through it . |
| 21 | He should admit that his efforts have supplied few of the first 999 floors . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , two hundred years after Charles 's death , the inhabitants of the lands he had once ruled were identified as Kerlinger , Carlenses : " Charles 's men " ; and in the thirteenth century , when King Louis IX arranged at St-Denis the tombs of the kings who had preceded him , he left two in positions of special honour , the Merovingian Dagobert , greatest of the First Frankish dynasty , and Charles the Bald . |
| 23 | The ‘ Fresh Start ’ Motions gained even more significance when over 1,000 representatives to the Conservative party Conference signed a petition supportive of the first Parliamentary Motion . |
| 24 | This exasperating weekday practice prevents us seeing at least 10 minutes of each of the first two sessions of paly . |
| 25 | The in-betweens , a group of five fields ( Cumberland , Durham , Derbyshire , Lancashire — or Northwest — and Northumberland ) which provided the 55 per cent vote at each of the first two ballots but on average produced only 42 per cent support for the strike call across the other four . |
| 26 | There was a daughter by each of the first two marriages . |
| 27 | The participants had decided to walk 20km on each of the first two days and finish by walking 10km on the last day . |
| 28 | Additionally , a further ‘ outside ’ course is taken in each of the first two years . |
| 29 | Geology comprises one third of the curriculum in each of the first two years of study . |
| 30 | During each of the first two years after diagnosis , gastrointestinal symptoms recorded on standardised forms were classified as quiescent , mild , moderate , or severe as defined in Table I. For all 100 patients , the influence of anatomical localisation of disease , sex , severity of gastrointestinal symptoms , duration of daily prednisone use , and of nutritional intervention on the height velocities during each of the first two years were analysed by multiple regression analysis . |