Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | Quite a bit there er when you lay it out like that in a pattern a thought pattern which shows just how much er we did actually get through er from where you started at ten in the morning or just after with the presentation right through to the second presentation . |
2 | Came home , went to bed , slept right through to the next morning , and then you would n't know that anything had happened to him . |
3 | ‘ Did you , ’ Markby asked patiently for about the third or fourth time , ‘ intend to make her fall ? ’ |
4 | He will , however , be away for about the next six weeks . |
5 | Harrington 's fortunes rose steeply for about the first 150 generations . |
6 | A few stars have been known to undergo more than one major outburst ; the ‘ Blaze Star ’ , T Coronæ in the Northern Crown , is usually of about the tenth magnitude , but flared up to naked-eye visibility in 1866 and again in 1946 . |
7 | The middle sister discovered the body when she came home at about the sixth hour of night . ’ |
8 | I 'm going back now to before the First World War , sometime in the early years of this century . |
9 | All his savings , which he had worked so hard for in the last ten years , had been spent on renting the farm . |
10 | He played the first 11 well enough , but the putts refused to drop apart from at the eighth and 10th , where first he faced little chips . |
11 | We watched as the kite swept across the valley , ascending so high that it was just a speck in the distance , and then swooping gracefully over the horizon , to appear again from behind the next hill . |
12 | Finally , we 've got to bring the players back to earth a bit , but two absolute cracking games to look forward to in the next couple of weeks ; Oldham next week , probably the best footballing side in the second division , and away to Swindon the week after , so still a lot to look forward to although disappointment at going out of the Cup . |