Example sentences of "[num] [noun] go [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three weeks went by before I saw him again and that was the day the coach left Sweetmary . |
| 2 | I waited for three buses to go past before I got on to one . |
| 3 | Fourteen words went down before he stopped , hand slackening , thoughts dipping back to the girl he had seen late last night in the coffee bar . |
| 4 | Fully ten minutes went by before Katherine spoke . |
| 5 | Five minutes went by as she reflected that Rosemary must be feeling as miserable as Travis , then , checking to see that Travis was all right as she passed , she went to bed . |
| 6 | In Bangladesh , for instance , the birth rate in one village went up after the pill was introduced : because it both interfered with lactation ( 90 per cent of the users were lactating mothers — and lactation is known to help prevent ovulation ) , and was abandoned by 80 per cent of the women because of side effects . |
| 7 | One lad went back because his father went back . |
| 8 | Before explaining how to tackle a course race it is worth looking at what makes one sailor go faster than another . |
| 9 | In recent years they 've all got the real ale kick and always have too many pumps , which means that the throughput is slow and four out of five beers go off before they 're half sold . |
| 10 | Well I think I could make twenty quid go further than that . |
| 11 | Three , four months went by until only two routes for selling them remained unexplored . |
| 12 | There are n't two days go by though when I do n't think of him , because there was a time when we 'd play tennis four or five times a year . |