Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Companies in future will be able to write off against taxes only the first $1 million of what they pay any director or executive . |
| 2 | We have n't got to the reselling stage with these yet because we 've been going about six months so the first resale is eighteen months away . |
| 3 | It 's our duty anyway to get these words though the last minutes of discussion have been possibly the most valuable cos if we can not use language accurately |
| 4 | And they gave thanks when the first buds appeared in spring . |
| 5 | This raises interesting questions about what actually does happen to such relationships when the third party is no longer there , that is , when the marriage is broken through death or divorce . |
| 6 | The decades following the Second World War saw an historically unprecedented growth in retirement at a fixed age for all social classes . |
| 7 | IN the three decades following the Second World War , Scotland experienced an explosion of building and reconstruction on a scale unknown since the Industrial Revolution , driven by powerful political , social and architectural forces . |
| 8 | This project explores the range of public attitudes to those new technologies and technical changes which characterised the inter-war years and the two decades following the Second World War . |
| 9 | In the two decades following the Second World War , secondary schools were divided into grammar and secondary modern schools . |
| 10 | Mountains fell and there were mountains again the next day . |
| 11 | Indeed , the intention of the English negotiators when the Second Treaty of London was drawn up may well have been to make the French an offer they would be bound to refuse . |
| 12 | Eight days later the first Duke of Wellington was calling on her with reports of a coming clash : the king 's desired divorce from Queen Caroline . |
| 13 | A link-up with the western end from Kalgoorlie was finally made on October 17 , 1917 and five days later the first passenger train completed the historic crossing . |
| 14 | Ed. note : Two weeks later the first commode was delivered to Maria Frantzia . |
| 15 | Two years later the first monuments were taken into care , and many more followed . |
| 16 | The field was discovered in 1974 and 10 years later the first gas flowed ashore . |
| 17 | After a period of apparent — and perhaps misleading — political stability in the first twenty-five years following the Second World War , the 1970s seem to have marked some sort of turning-point for the British political system . |
| 18 | This process has accelerated in the twentieth century and , we argue , reached completion in the twenty years following the Second World War . |
| 19 | We must remember that there was no compulsory army conscription in Britain — compulsion in schools was bad enough , and standing armies had long been anathema to the ‘ freeborn Englishman ’ — and it was not until the years following the Second World War that compulsory national service would come into existence in peace-time Britain . |
| 20 | In the years following the Second World War the European colonial powers retained control over a large number of military and naval bases among their colonies . |
| 21 | Britons were at last letting their hair down after the grey years following the Second World War . |
| 22 | 4 weeks ago the first trident nuclear submarine rolled out from the Barrow shipyard with hardly a headline and still less protest . |
| 23 | ‘ Several weeks ago the first hint was given . |
| 24 | Seven years ago the first Hôtel Formule 1 opened in France . |
| 25 | Nearly a thousand years ago the first settlers made the Glemmtal valley their home , and ever since they 've made a point of extending a warm welcome to all-comers . |
| 26 | Ten thousand years earlier the Second Empire had fought itself to collapse against a race of genetically altered super-beings . |
| 27 | It was Mellor , as junior Home Office Minister , who was left by Mrs Thatcher to pick up the pieces when the last government went badly over the top in its determination to reshape television by deregulation , irrespective of quality . |
| 28 | The Box Office at the Oxford Union will be open from 3rd June Monday to Saturday between 10a.m. and 1.0p.m. ( 8.30 on days when the last performance is at a later time ) . |
| 29 | Balloting was due to take place in early November for three of the 120 elective seats where the third round had been delayed . |
| 30 | Already beaten by South Wales at Northop Hall in their opening match , Flintshire were denied the chance of restoring their credentials when the second fixture against Breconshire at Builth Wells was washed out . |