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 | The decades following the Second World War saw an historically unprecedented growth in retirement at a fixed age for all social classes . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In the two decades following the Second World War , secondary schools were divided into grammar and secondary modern schools . |
| 8 | Mountains fell and there were mountains again the next day . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Ed. note : Two weeks later the first commode was delivered to Maria Frantzia . |
| 12 | Two years later the first monuments were taken into care , and many more followed . |
| 13 | The field was discovered in 1974 and 10 years later the first gas flowed ashore . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This process has accelerated in the twentieth century and , we argue , reached completion in the twenty years following the Second World War . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Britons were at last letting their hair down after the grey years following the Second World War . |
| 19 | 4 weeks ago the first trident nuclear submarine rolled out from the Barrow shipyard with hardly a headline and still less protest . |
| 20 | ‘ Several weeks ago the first hint was given . |
| 21 | Seven years ago the first Hôtel Formule 1 opened in France . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Ten thousand years earlier the Second Empire had fought itself to collapse against a race of genetically altered super-beings . |
| 24 | Five minutes later the first team was back . |
| 25 | I seemed to have more time to get things together the second time and Fringe stayed beside Bob fairly smoothly to the end . |
| 26 | One finger , one thumb , keep moving This song builds up with the appropriate actions so the second verse is : ‘ One finger one thumb one arm keep moving . |
| 27 | If you have two males then the first sign will probably be the continuous conflict . |
| 28 | If we assume that the customer has paid for the goods then the first entries would have been to increase the bank by £600 and include in the profit and 1088 account sales of £600 . |
| 29 | ‘ Five bodies were found yesterday ( Wednesday ) , today another two and just a few hours ago the last body , ’ said a human rights officer . |
| 30 | He ca n't have been so crap otherwise he would n't have been picked in such a brilliant side but the mistakes I 've seen were just appalling , and in the most important games e.g. the first Chelsea 70 Cup Final game when the ball went right under his body . |