Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] in the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 The interviewer knows a secret and naturally imparts it to his million or so readers in the next issue .
2 Pouch excision , which occurred in 30% of the first 50 patients was undertaken in only 4% in the last 68 patients .
3 We shall consider only distortions in the next section .
4 The equity proportion of financing has risen to 43% for deals below £10m in the last 18 months and to over 40% for deals above £10m .
5 It must , therefore , be emphasised that , despite the good intentions of the organisers , ‘ Genova nell'età barocca ’ is overwhelmingly an exhibition about Genoese painting , not the arts in Genoa , still less Genoa in the seventeenth century .
6 Commenting on its much improved figures ( see page seven ) , Cray Research Inc said order backlogs during the first quarter of rose to $381m from $354m in the same period a year ago , adding to positive overall quarterly earnings : John Carlson , the new chairman and chief executive , said that the contract value of orders signed was some $124m compared with just $86m in the first quarter of last year .
7 The company , which owns Spear & Jackson , the garden tools manufacturer , has been the subject of recurrent speculation for months , and it was fuelled last month when Neill announced a fall in pre-tax profits from £2.71m to just £28,000 in the first half .
8 Town are still second in the first division , but are reckoned to be playing the best football .
9 ‘ He said it was inevitable , that bad blood would always surface in the next generation , and that the only way he could hope to save me was to chase the devil from my soul before he got a proper hold . ’
10 Obviously the forcing resistance is one of the fundamental factors influencing high-speed performance so this relationship is given further consideration in the next section .
11 It is believed that they migrated to central Italy from Asia Minor or possibly further east in the eighth century B.C. ; remaining dominant and independent until the third century B.C. after which they were gradually Latinised under Roman rule .
12 SKY TV will splash nearly £6million in the next four weeks on a lavish advertising campaign to sell the Premier League — even though their £304million deal with the League is not yet signed .
13 The game was spoiled by erratic and inconsistent refereeing by Kettering official Brian Hill , who felt it necessary to take aside both captains in the 21st minute and warn them about each team 's tactics .
14 Thinking about it has driven me nearly bonkers in the last 14 years . ’
15 The partners in the first firm of solicitors were also partners in the second .
16 The company achieved a net cash inflow of nearly £400,000 in the second half of the year , leaving it with £1m in cash and no borrowings .
17 Manufacturing productivity rose nearly 8% in the first quarter of 1993 compared to the same period last year .
18 Clearly diplomacy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was still far from modern .
19 AST is third in US market share among portable computer makers , Edwards said , and overall unit growth was up about 65% in the first nine months of the current fiscal .
20 Often governments in the third world do not help their people 's cause .
21 A well-made heap will heat rapidly to about 66°C in the first week , the temperature then dropping slowly down to about 29°C after three months .
22 El Segundo , California-based Computer Sciences Corp says it expects to record a net gain of about $5m in the first quarter of fiscal 1994 on adoption of a new accounting rule covering income tax reporting .
23 But were they really freeholders in the first place ?
24 You wo n't know exactly how much your Poll Tax will be until closer to April 1990 , but a projected estimate is that each person will be charged about £350 in the first year of Poll Tax .
25 It was even Steven in the second half , but towards the end Gloucester roared into life .
26 There was no room for Haydn or Hume in the eighteenth century , for Verdi or even Dostoevsky in the nineteenth .
27 Dr Khaled al-Izzi , in a sturdy defence of the Iraqi position on the Shatt al-Arab dispute published in 1981 , cites episodes of occupation of Ottoman territory in what is today Iraq in the sixteenth century and the signature of a peace treaty at Zohab in 1639 .
28 Some of the wealthier peasants undoubtedly prospered , rising in rank to become yeomen or even gentry in the sixteenth century , but these were a minority .
29 But for Hurricane Andrew' we would have reported a profit of almost $22m in the third quarter and a return to profitability in for the nine months .
30 By conservative estimates the Dark Destroyer can earn at least £1million in the next 12 months .
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