Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [subord] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know some people are saying we will hit somebody for five or six goals sooner or later , but I 'd rather we had a nice , successful run of 1-0 wins than just a one-off . ’ |
| 2 | When the Prince moved to a small lodge on the edge of the Steine in the 1780s fashion followed , and Brighton over the next fifty years provided perhaps the ultimate example of the marked contrast between attempts at a classical social order and a barely restrained chaos whose uneasy juxtaposition opened wider chasms in late Georgian society . |
| 3 | The native ( adult ! ) speaker takes the simple collocation of three words as simultaneously the name of a character and a classic children 's television programme . |
| 4 | Arnold Denney , of Trumpet Terrace , Cleator , who has worked on the production line for 42 years as either a machine knotter or twister and for a number of years has been a foreman . |
| 5 | It was four hours before even the body could be removed . |
| 6 | The time for defence is then extended to four days after either the Crown gives notice to the court and to the plaintiff that it is satisfied with the information given , or the court decides that no further information is required . |
| 7 | THREE years of undergraduate study now requires 10 to 20 paperbacks where formerly a few solid textbooks sufficed . |