Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the final analysis the full impact of reform will be felt most keenly by the thousands of Scottish men and women whose income falls the wrong side of the line . |
| 2 | In January 1871 there were 166,407 female out-door paupers in England and Wales ; in January 1891 only 53,371 , despite the fact that the policy was pursued less vigorously in the 1880s than in the preceding decade . |
| 3 | Our permanency planning has been a two-stage affair , but we never got our preventive and rehabilitative act together properly in the 1960s . |
| 4 | Japanese economic competition was feared , although the anxiety was based more on memories of competition in the 1930s than the new competition that developed so vigorously in the 1960s . |
| 5 | We may regret some inevitable omissions — but a fair conspectus of Ferrier 's repertory has been preserved for posterity with the one great regret — the absence of her Angel in Gerontius , which I heard her sing under Barbirolli so memorably at the 1952 Edinburgh Festival . |
| 6 | It 's only just after the one world week thing . |
| 7 | He spoke only once during the eight minute hearing , to say he understood the proceedings . |
| 8 | Our discussion this time will restrict itself much more to the two chosen passages , and will need only to take a brief look at a few details of the narratives leading up to them , and at the stories that immediately follow them . |
| 9 | They did so gradually during the 1960s — raising the share of cash flow taken by net interest payments from 5% in 1960 to 15% in 1970 — but then cut back . |
| 10 | The February index provides renewed evidence of a slowdown although the average 7.3 p.c. rise is only marginally below the 7.5 p.c. recorded in the October index . |
| 11 | The proportions differed only slightly in the 1987 general election . |
| 12 | So far over the two days there have only been five sub par rounds out of the 186 played . |
| 13 | So far of the thousand locusts a couple of hundred have perished or been eaten by the scorpions . |
| 14 | These services will be flown by 450 former Dan-Air flight and cabin crew , the only jobs saved so far from the 2,000 permanent Dan-Air staff . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm only here for the one night . ’ |
| 16 | It has now been conveyed to the rest of us , and we should not too quickly dismiss the thought that this message might resonate usefully in Nicaragua , in Iran and the Lebanon , and perhaps even in the two Germanys . |
| 17 | So why did the British Greens ( to take the national party which won the highest percentage of the vote ) do so well in the 1989 Euro-elections ? |
| 18 | It was unsurprising that , with Johannes Rau as their candidate for Chancellor , they fared even less well in the 1987 election ( with 37 per cent of the vote ) than they had four years before . |
| 19 | Indeed , for most of the inhabitants of the countries in which xenophobia is now epidemic , the old ways of life have changed so drastically since the 1950s that there is very little of them left to defend . |
| 20 | During the nineteenth century , as more people survived their last child leaving home , it became a particularly important form of support , with perhaps a quarter of working-class older people in some towns taking in boarders : a pattern which persisted until young people began to marry much earlier in the 1950s , setting up on their own instead — and leaving more of the old on their own . |
| 21 | This is Brando 's first film since 1980 and it 's good that his old campaigning fire was still sufficiently there under the millions and the sloth to pull him into this . |
| 22 | Mr Godfrey , a cleaning contractor and former fireman spoke only twice during the nine minute hearing . |
| 23 | So instead of the three , let's let's leave the two X exactly as it is |
| 24 | So too with the two ingredients which constitute our life principle , the rational and the irrational ; the rational which belongs to mind and reason is of the masculine gender , the irrational , the province of sense , is of the feminine . |
| 25 | erm fucking indoor murder ball , the seat , cushion and stuff like that , its fucking well out of order piss up games oh that 's right I think we played in , I think we played , you know that British bull dog thing ? , we managed to clear all the fucking the nappy chair this and the chairs out the way , we were playing this British bull dog sort of thing and the only thing , the only , the only difference was when you got caught , got , everybody was fucking giving you a few thumps in the arm , for good measure like , and we played about four of this and every time this cocky little son of a bitch did n't get caught , he was always the last person , so we fucking said , we said , me and this other guy 's that are in our troop and that er , we said right we 'll get him , so when , when everybody sort of go for it right just after the one person in the middle , said fucking just get this guy and fucking pin him down and do something to him right , we did n't , I think we said we 'd just get him , yeah that 's a good idea , so he 's gone right go and his mate he 's fucking took off two steps and there 's eight of us fucking dived on top of him , what the fucking , he 's struggling , get off you cunt so we pinned him down and at first we was just going to de-bag him in front of the women , we 've taken his boots off and his trousers and that and shave his bollocks , yeah the whole fucking yeah , it was like an audience , all that they sort of gathered up the chairs and the tables fuck have his bollocks shaved . |
| 26 | Just just between the two of us . |
| 27 | We have concentrated thus far on the two sectors statutory and voluntary , by which most formal care in the community is delivered . |
| 28 | In all , Sly Spy is just about worth the four brass beer tokens asked for by your friendly computer shop . |
| 29 | The first-year course concentrates on modern German language and modern German literature , with teaching hours shared approximately equally between the two components . |
| 30 | And Dunlop 's string with a score already well into the thirties for the season knows the time of day when assessing its youngsters . |