Example sentences of "[is] [adv] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | seventy five degrees I mean , and it was really cold and when we got back it was cold as well , it 's only the last four weeks that we 've been able to use the outdoor pools again |
| 2 | On the other hand , Preobrazhensky 's law of primitive socialist accumulation is merely the next logical step , or steps , based upon the premise of the conscious decision to build a socialist economy . |
| 3 | Furthermore , the protection of warranties and imposing a limit is only the second best option . |
| 4 | This is only the second such case out of 28,000-plus units sold in this country during the past 18 weeks . |
| 5 | The Essex girl is only the fifth British Belle ever to win an Olympic track or field title |
| 6 | Based in Damascus , ABPC is only the third such joint operating company to be set up in the oil industry in Syria . |
| 7 | Dell is only the third largest direct sales vendor in the UK , with 9.6% of the market and 3.8% of the total PC market . |
| 8 | THE Queen is only the TENTH richest woman in Britain , a survey reveals . |
| 9 | Indeed , the development of a set of assessment procedures which integrate structural , semantic and functional descriptions of language is perhaps the next major focus for clinical research . |
| 10 | In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here . |
| 11 | For this is not the first such episode . |
| 12 | This is not the first such row of recent times . |
| 13 | He is not the first Federal Reserve chairman to visit Moscow , but never can one have been paid as much attention . |
| 14 | I think it is only fair to point out that this is not the first major development on the Ringdufferin Road . |
| 15 | The Hall of Fame is not the first international honour awarded to Professor Solomons . |
| 16 | The quiteron is not the first superconducting device that engineers have considered for chips . |
| 17 | However , the Abu Dhabi office is not the first overseas-based venture for J&F Johnston . |
| 18 | The Deloitte fiasco is not the first big eight merger to fall apart and these ridiculous posturings must leave the clients , who are supposedly served by their auditors , completely baffled . |
| 19 | Figure 6a illustrates such a mitotic cell in which the normal X is inactive and is seen as being shorter than normal ( the X is normally the fifth longest chromosome ) and darker staining than the other chromosomes . |
| 20 | no , and er , it 's not the seventeenth this Monday coming |
| 21 | IF YOU ca n't have Mr Major at your election night party then there is always the next best thing : Mrs Thatcher . |
| 22 | Its public debt has fallen to 111% of GDP from a peak of 131% in 1987 , but this is still the second highest ( behind Belgium ) of any industrial economy . |
| 23 | Mind you , they 've been saying that for years , and the C64 is still the second biggest leisure-software market in Europe ( and the biggest market for budget software ! ) . |
| 24 | The 6th duke , Gerald Grosvenor , is still the fourth richest man in the country , with a personal fortune of £643 million . |
| 25 | I think it 's possibly the thirteenth consecutive year I 've been on the committee and for the first time I 've managed to be elected . |
| 26 | Hannah Glasse 's book , The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy was first published in 1747 in the 1751 edition appears what is possibly the first English printed recipe for an ice cream . |
| 27 | Until then , if you really need the additional speed and own a machine with a standard ISA bus and a 386DX processor then at approximately £350 the RapidCad Engineering Coprocessor is technically the second best upgrade . |
| 28 | And since a car is probably the second biggest investment you 'll ever make — buying a stolen one could cost you a lot of money ! |
| 29 | The Whitchurch one is probably the second most advanced one now after the Victoria , Oswestry ward , but the Oswestry , sorry the Victoria ward instead of Oswestry , and there is a , a , a need , I think Chairman , that I think will be very close now to , to forming a , a , a joint consortium to look at , which goes between the County , er , the District , the Town Council , the Tech , the Rural Development Commission , local businesses in Whitchurch , the local Chamber of Commerce in Whitchurch , to try to pull everybody together , to pool their efforts and resources for the town . |
| 30 | We have clear descriptions of Charles from his chroniclers and contemporaries ; he is probably the first powerful figure to emerge from the Dark Ages as a completely documented ruler . |