Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Il Moro led for the first two legs , New Zealand showed her fearsome ability to climb to windward when she squeezed up from underneath Il Moro to take the lead at the third mark . |
| 2 | The European market for acetate filament yarn is expected to shrink slightly during 1993 — disappointing but not such a blow as that experienced during the last two years which saw the market in Europe tumble from 40,000 tons to 30,000 . |
| 3 | The story of how Meehan and his advisors tried and failed during the next seven years to obtain justice for him in the light of increasing evidence of his innocence and Waddell 's guilt makes sorry reading . |
| 4 | Here we lived for the next fifteen years , with the eighteenth-century kirk across the road , and from my study window at the front a clear thirty-mile view across the Tweed valley to the distant Cheviots . |
| 5 | A movement was born that provided for the next four years the reference point for the left , and for artists and what passed for Britain 's Beats . |
| 6 | Early in 1989 his book , A Brief History of Time , toppled my autobiography from No 1 to No 2 on the best-seller list , which positions we retained for the next 13 weeks . |
| 7 | The figures show that the number of pollution incidents rose for the fifth successive year and have doubled since 1985 . |
| 8 | It was a slow-going mile , but towards the end one could hear occasional cars along the road ahead and Gareth and Coconut with whoops crashed through the last few yards , again , as the week before , relieved to be back in the space age . |
| 9 | The change in gastric acid secretion , between basal acid secretion and stimulated acid secretion , that occurred during the first 30 minutes after sham feeding was compared with the change in urine acid output ( DUAO ) over the same period . |
| 10 | He was at once promoted to lance-corporal but although Travis [ Commander Edward Travis who was chief administrator at B.P. ] tried for the next six months to find a suitable military unit to which Harold could be attached as an officer , he had no luck . |
| 11 | The real evidence of successful integration occurred after the first two weeks . |
| 12 | Episodes of intestinal obstruction usually occurred in the first year of operation but in seven patients admission to hospital with obstruction occurred after the first 12 months . |
| 13 | Most complications occurred with the first few procedures when the technique was being developed . |
| 14 | Armed with my definition of a manager and my time-span measuring instrument , I then bumped into the second surprising finding — repeatedly confirmed — about layering in managerial hierarchies : the boundaries between successive managerial layers occur at certain specific time-span increments , just as ice changes to water and water to steam at certain specific temperatures . |
| 15 | The closer we allow ourselves to get to another , the more we are affected and influences both consciously and unconsciously through the projective system or defence we described in the last two chapters . |
| 16 | But within a few weeks of William 's appointment she had applied to three different London boroughs for a job — any job — in social work , taken the first one she 'd been offered , fixed up the flat , put the cottage on the market , found a school for Edwin , and fled from the last five years of her life with almost indecent haste . |
| 17 | If " adornment " is to be identified in linguistic patterns which have no semantic utility , we can point to the alliterations clustered in the last few lines . |
| 18 | We found in the first covert and then twice more , I ca n't remember so many good runs in a day before , not all at once . ’ |
| 19 | ( The Pentateuch or the Torah is the Law of Moses found in the first five books of the Old Testament . ) |
| 20 | Most of the deaths ( 29/42 ) occurred within the first six weeks of the index bleed . |
| 21 | For example , in 1979 nearly half of all divorces occurred within the first 10 years . |
| 22 | Holland I sank before the first nuclear tests and was shielded by the sea from radiation . |
| 23 | Figure 5 shows their distribution with time ; 49% occurred in the first four seconds after the onset of the common cavity episode and 34% were scattered over the 5th to the 27th second after the onset of the common cavity . |
| 24 | Most cases ( 63% ) of chronic diarrhoea occurred in the first two years of life . |
| 25 | The independence of the people 's committees was not ultimately compatible with communist rule in north Korea and problems occurred in the first few months of communist dominance . |
| 26 | Most complications ( n=7 ) occurred in the first third of the series and may partly be ascribed to a ‘ learning process ’ with the operation . |
| 27 | Our four hypertension related male deaths all occurred in the first 12 years of the 21 years of follow up , suggesting their treatment was probably begun too late . |
| 28 | As he had argued in Totem and Taboo , murder occurred in the first human groups , and the prohibition on killing came from the father . |
| 29 | Most cases occurred in the first 48 hours of detention ( until July 1988 Austrian law allowed detainees to be held incommunicado for 48 hours ) . |
| 30 | Clinical deterioration occurred in the first three months of treatment in seven cases . |