Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | behind the antique shop , and we went along and had a look and at ten o'clock it had dropped right down to the second step from the bottom roughly |
| 2 | The horses always go much better on the second day , which makes the long journey seem worthwhile . |
| 3 | The round-faced , round-skulled head tops a body on which the skirt is almost a cylinder ; and the cylindrical skirt reappears even more emphatically in a magnificent over life-size marble , now headless , dedicated a little later , perhaps already in the second quarter of the century , by one Cheramyes to Hera on Samos ( fig. 28 ) . |
| 4 | it was only just before the Second World War that simultaneous interpreting became possible ( as well as acceptable ) at conferences . |
| 5 | Versions for Italy and the Benelux countries are expected to be ready later in the second quarter and a Spanish version in the last half of 1993 , the company said . |
| 6 | Whilst we recognise that conditions favoured us in the first quarter in that weather-related losses were comparatively light , the worldwide nature of the improvement , together with encouraging indications so far in the second quarter , lead us to believe that the worst is behind us and that trends will continue to improve . |
| 7 | The H pylori positive duodenal ulcer patients and H pylori positive healthy volunteers differed , however , with respect to gastrin mediated acid secretion , which was increased six fold in the first but only threefold in the second when compared with H pylori negative healthy volunteers . |
| 8 | West Ham doing so well in the second division went to first division Luton , and by half time they were in front , a Pariss goal after forty three minutes , but Luton hit back in the seventieth minute through Black , and these two sides must replay . |
| 9 | His quickest time for a 30-question puzzle was three-and-a-half minutes , which he did in the national championships though doing less well on the second puzzle meant he missed coming top . |
| 10 | During the show that night , she tried so hard in the second song , which was now ‘ The Last Rose of Summer ’ that her voice cracked on ‘ No rosebud is nigh ’ . |
| 11 | We also did a very important er , technology transfer to Czechoslovakia , which er , unsubmersible pump neck technology and that 's tended to , to erm , hide a slight delcl er decline in the last quarter of the year , normally in oil most of the profit or more of the profit comes in the second half than the first , but with the Gulf War last year oil prices were pretty firm and er , so we 've made er , quite reasonable profits in the , in the er , first half and so too in the second half , but in the last quarter they 've been showed up by that technology er , transfer and the er , U S oil price is er , is , is er stag the U K's is stagnant , the U S is stagnant in oil and the gas prices are very , very far down , they 're well down . |
| 12 | City were well in contention when Jon Bland kicked a penalty to make it 6–3 but they fell away badly in the second half . |
| 13 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 14 | and I do n't think you gave evidence that you shouted armed police yourself , so is it right that it was only shouted one time just immediately after the second door opened ? |
| 15 | The tourists had looked decidedly ordinary at times during the first half , but combined more fluently in the second to run up their most convincing victory to date , albeit a hollow one . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm usually away by the second try . |
| 17 | The number of reported cattle thefts increased still further during the Second World War , when food prices increased dramatically . |
| 18 | That the question is not an idle one can be seen if one looks a little more closely at the second of our two examples . |
| 19 | There are three staircases in the house , including a great one of oak which leads right up to the second floor , where the rooms are spacious — not designed for servants — and the views stretch to the Long Mynd . |
| 20 | Although piped water was connected to the village in 1906 , it proved unreliable and the well was still in use right up to the second world war . |
| 21 | If you look at the people who went in for the Olympic Games , right up to the Second World War , erm you would call them amateurs . |
| 22 | Larry 's return to life is recounted most extensively in the second part of the novel . |
| 23 | If you want to skip the first quest in The Legend of Zelda on the NES , you can go straight on to the second one by entering Zelda as your name on the initial screen . |
| 24 | We were poor in the first half and slightly better in the second . |
| 25 | Also through to the second round is England 's Mervyn King who beat heavyweight Canadian Bill Boettger 7-3 , 5-7 , 7-5 , 7-3 . |
| 26 | The patient was probably already in the second stage of muscle pain , leading to the destruction of the muscle , something that could happen in as little as ten days . |
| 27 | After those cuts , trading profits of the communications division were more than double those in the first half year and marginally ahead of the second half of last year as business held up . |
| 28 | After those cuts , trading profits of the communications division were more than double those in the first half year and marginally ahead of the second half of last year as business held up . |
| 29 | He was not amused , although I think his pride was hurt more than anything else , but he did move his chair this time — right back into the second row ! |
| 30 | That 's unusual is n't it , because I always think , I mean I , this is really only about the second watch I 've ever had good one . |