Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm , that 's right though , there should be a they make out , wh , wh , what 's all that about then , vote for at the next election or something ? |
| 2 | Cleaner and then er wire wool at at the last |
| 3 | McCrum had his eye on a century when he cruelly slipped at the crease and was run out , but his stand of for the second wicket with John Gilliland , who made 32 , put his side firmly in the driving seat . |
| 4 | a decision in detail as to where it should be in the short term ( one year ahead ) and a longer-term plan for about the next three to four years : |
| 5 | there 's a thousand pound he said , you know , if you can make it right sort of over the next month but he said basically I can not do anything until erm the end of February , he said you come in the end of February he said and then we can start to sort it out , he said I ca n't do anything for you until then . |
| 6 | Yeah well she 's sort of with the third year and will admit she 's so fed up ! |
| 7 | Oh Lord , we did so many extravagant things — all sort of at the last minute . |
| 8 | The centrepiece of this sale of Antiquities is a Graeco-Roman bronze statuette of Harpocrates dating from about the first century BC , which is estimated to go for £150–200,000 ( $270–360,000 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ I did n't steal anything from you , and what you lost , you had no right to in the first place . ’ |
| 10 | The neck joins the body at around the 16th fret , making access to those all important top frets rather awkward , to say the least . |
| 11 | My next step is to decide what I am going to use to pre-bait with over the next three weeks . |
| 12 | I 've not got my appointment through until the fifth of October . |
| 13 | In most individuals , the basi-occipital begins to fuse with the basisphenoid at about the seventeenth year , and they are usually completely joined by the twentieth to twenty-third year . |
| 14 | Mr Baker said the main area of concern for over the next few years was ‘ serious downturn ’ in the economies of export markets in Europe and Japan . |
| 15 | This is the field slope running to the road from behind the 7th tee box and alongside the 6th green . |
| 16 | Marandet in Niger , 1200 kilometres due north of Igbo Ukwu , has been dated by radiocarbon to between the 6th and the 10th centuries AD . |
| 17 | Their first innings made only 205 , with 57 from Smith and 43 from debutante Bailey ( whose reward , after failing in the second innings , was to be dropped against Sri Lanka , one of the most astonishing pieces of selectoral crassness for years ) ; but on the second morning , in real sunshine for about the first time in the rubber , Foster bowled splendidly to decapitate the order . |
| 18 | I am not sure that the right hon. Gentleman has told the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) that , but perhaps the hon. Gentleman is putting down an early marker for after the next election . |
| 19 | I 'd forgotten that was what I 'd picked a Gnat for in the first place It sounded horrible , coming from him . |
| 20 | Branson had drawn up what was to become known as the ‘ Million List ’ — the number of things that had to be taken care of in the next three months before the airline could fly . |
| 21 | And apparently the firm that she ordered the thing from in the first place had been er , re-set up . |
| 22 | Note the improvement ( though still to a high level ) in and the more modest improvement in between the first and the second repetitions . |
| 23 | There 's the firstly that of young children , and it 's something that I remember putting a motion to in the last administration about a creche or whatever or looking into this facility , in the fact of erm , trying to encourage more people with young families to erm , actually get involved in local government and politics . |
| 24 | There 's little Bill Ward has n't turned his hand to in the first sixty years … from Tragic opera … to Singing puppets |
| 25 | But I think , looking back in history , there has always been a erm strong erm religious motivation behind many of the past great scientists , like Newton , erm Boyle , Maxwell , Calvin — these are all people who had a very strong religious motivation erm behind their investigations , and if you look back in history still further , there is a strong case to be made that the reason why science was so dramatically successful in the west was because there was a strong belief in monotheistic religion , that people believe that the world had been created in an ordered way by a deity and so there really were laws of nature to be discovered , whereas if you study what happened in the Far East , for example , in China , the Chinese , you remember , were well ahead of the west in science at about the tenth century . |
| 26 | It will also integrate the operations of Archive faster than planned , completing the effort by within the first half of 1993 . |
| 27 | Sister Paul would pretend not to see me as I hung about outside around the staffroom to see her pass by for the third time that day . |
| 28 | We had our own bedrooms and that was saying quite a bit , because er the , the nurses home had been built er for the er as a sort of war memorial for after the First World War which was one of the most sensible war memorials I think anyone could have er provided . |
| 29 | I was saying to this bloke at work West Ham must be the only positive transfer to give West Ham pay for about the last twenty five years |
| 30 | As a project engineer , I 've been using a similar document for about the last six months . |