Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adv] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So much depends on Wright , still seeking his first England goal , and Shearer , who play together for only the second time . |
| 2 | Work was good or better in only a third of classes ; in a fifth , it was poor . |
| 3 | So at least the first two cells are still picking up the right two numbers , because we used the range names , we 've inserted a row on the other file , but er , we 're still about range names found where those cells are . |
| 4 | In addition MA students specialise in one of the leading world religions ( Christianity , Judaism , Islam , Hinduism , Buddhism , Chinese religions , Ancient Near Eastern religions ) , and normally in either a second major religious tradition or one of the chief approaches to the study of religion — sociology , psychology , anthropology , philosophy or fine art . |
| 5 | Ideas about the structure of glass date back 50 years or more to when the first diffuse X-ray scattering measurements on the material were being made a by B. E. Warren and others . |
| 6 | Note that the first statement of the theme is always at least a third as long as the whole , while contrasting sentences are never very prolonged , and are sometimes quite brief . |
| 7 | All , however , have reduced their cover — usually by around a third . |
| 8 | They will be held in the community hall from 10am to 4pm every second and fourth Sunday . |
| 9 | He ‘ established methods of work , and initiated courses of improvement ’ under which by 1890 the average general death rate of Liverpool was declared by Sir John Simon [ q.v. ] to have been reduced by ‘ probably at least a fourth part ’ of the rate which prevailed when he became medical officer of health . |
| 10 | Only half a dozen men and I were left , but almost at once a third plane arrived , and having been warned that they dared not wait as there were Jap planes about , we got on board and the plane took oft almost empty . |
| 11 | At dawn Charles and Louis moved northwards with about a third of their troops to occupy the wooded hill overlooking Lothar 's camp at Fontenoy itself . |
| 12 | Two of the dates you have suggested ( 9.30am on either the 23rd or 26th ) are suitable but I will be at a conference in Inverness on the 2nd and 3rd of July . |
| 13 | The shares are currently at only a third of the 120p high they once reached . |