Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had not moved , either mentally or physically in the last two years . |
| 2 | Consequently scientists did not move around as they do today , or even in the 19th century , and local learned societies and journals flourished . |
| 3 | I 've only heard it once or twice in the last few |
| 4 | The story goes that ealy in the last century the then owner , a reverend David Edwards made a good marriage to a rich but stout lady , Miss Purnell . |
| 5 | But there are copious indications that already in the eleventh century , and perhaps long before , money played a part at least as important as labour . |
| 6 | I can hear that just in the last ten minutes |
| 7 | Nearly two-thirds have used the same type of credit more than once in the last two years . |
| 8 | Hove , however , came back more determined than ever in the second half . |
| 9 | The population of Portadown increased more than tenfold in the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | Although later in the fourteenth century some limits were placed upon the vulnerable houses , those outside royal patronage which had once yielded to pressure had forfeited their immunity . |
| 11 | The United States is so big that even in the twentieth century the inhabitants prefer to explore their own continent . |
| 12 | Recent research has shown that even in the thirteenth century the peasantry were participating much more actively in the monied economy than had previously been supposed . |
| 13 | But it is certain that even in the thirteenth century the Viscounts did not forget their Cornish connection . |
| 14 | It 's now quite sterile yet still manages to be immensely variable — to such a degree that even in the 18th century , gardeners thought all crocuses might simply be variants of it . |
| 15 | The sudden fall of an able and apparently powerful minister such as the Duc de Choiseul in 1770 showed that even in the last years of the lethargic and indifferent Louis XV this control was real . |
| 16 | They have charted complex changes since 1000 BC , showing that even in the last 1500 years the area has evolved from a series of tidal inlets , through the development of spits and dunes , to the triangular area that it is today , with the vast recent pebble dumps of Dungeness . |
| 17 | Well , I always look north on a dark night and I think that twice in the last twelve years . |
| 18 | We 've been averaging over a quarter of a million customers a week and an indicative of this is that recently in the last week , we 've just opened an additional three thousand car parking spaces to take our grand total up to twelve thousand spaces . |
| 19 | And somewhere in the last six months he found time to contribute some enthusiastic atmospherics to New Order 's World Cup single , ‘ E Is For England ’ . |
| 20 | None of the studies presents an operative model ( Rosener , in our opinion , comes closest , but her model , as she shows herself , is more heuristic than empirical ) , and so in the next section a model will be set out and explained in the light of the evaluation criteria for participation and effectiveness put forward in the first two sections of this paper . |
| 21 | Both these elements are needed in an understanding of soil erosion conservation , but hitherto it is only the first which has usually been considered — and only in the first of the three location-specific senses at that . |
| 22 | He played in six series against England and only in the last , in 1963 , did he fail with the bat ; other big scores included 191 not out , again at Nottingham , carrying his bat to help save the third Test of 1957 , and 197 not out at Barbados in the first match of 1959–60 again to ensure a draw after a big England innings . |
| 23 | Its origins are disguised by its huge cob , and only in the last few years has genetic analysis teased out the whole truth about its humble cereal ancestry . |
| 24 | Rug-making declined after the late 18th century , and only in the last 20 years has Egypt begun to re-establish itself as an important force . |
| 25 | It can also be said that , unlike Winckelmann , Hölderlin has some intuitive appreciation of the Greek spirit 's darker depths to which Nietzsche will later attach the name " flionysiac " — although Hölderlin gives them no such definition , and only in the last draft of his unfinished dramatic poem , The Death of Empedocles , do these depths receive a comparably urgent emphasis . |
| 26 | The first vat burst open , the water in the second boiled , and only in the third was his temper restored to normality . |
| 27 | In this period of cultural technology , and especially in the nineteenth century , the reproducibility of print was very much ahead of most other kinds of artistic reproduction , and this made the question of property in the work acute . |
| 28 | Yet not all such sources have been completely lost , for the historian of Cnut , so ill-served by contemporary records , is more fortunate in those produced after his death , and especially in the late-eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 29 | Consequently , childbearing is concentrated within the first decade of married life ( 84 per cent of births within marriage in 1956–60 , 92 per cent in 1976 ) , and especially in the second half of the decade — 33 per cent of births occurred in the fifth to the ninth years of marriage in 1976 compared to 26 per cent in 1951–5 ( figure 4.11 ) . |
| 30 | This met with some opposition , for there were those who regarded music with suspicion because of its ‘ human ’ origins and its consequent unworthiness for the offering of pure worship , Nevertheless , hymns grew in favour in succeeding years and especially in the first part of the eighteenth century . |