Example sentences of "[subord] [num] [prep] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mexico produced no less than one-third of all the world 's silver , together with copper , lead , gold , and many agricultural products . |
| 2 | The upward trend in the numbers of unemployed getting supplementary benefit , for example , continued in the 1980s ; the numbers trebled until two-thirds of all the unemployed received this benefit , despite the fact that it was never designed for them . |
| 3 | We could hear the engines revving up as one by one the aircraft started their nerve-wracking blind journey down the runway , and miraculously each managed a safe take-off without dislodging their bombs . |
| 4 | As in religious autobiographies of ‘ confessions ’ ( St Augustine is relevant here ) the poet is steadily driven to despair as one by one the hopes and promises of his early ‘ vocation ’ are withdrawn ; the restoration of his imaginative powers is the subject of the final books of the poem , and the new placing of the ‘ spots of time ’ passage now offers an explanation of this recovery , besides connecting the end of the poem with the ‘ childhood ’ scenes of the now almost forgotten first two books . |
| 5 | The popular broadsheet category eventually almost disappeared , however , as one by one the popular broadsheets changed their format to tabloid ( see Table 3.4 ) . |
| 6 | Once again the miracle of the taxis of the Marne was repeated ; this time in Paris the price of vegetables doubled as one by one the civilian camions disappeared off the streets . |