Example sentences of "till the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Urbanization was the cause : the Thessalian cities do not start to mint coins till the fifth century and this implies the beginnings of political self-consciousness after prolonged backwardness . |
| 2 | Boiotian history from 479 till the First Peloponnesian War of 460–446 is not recoverable , though something can be done with the coins . |
| 3 | Wait till the first night they thought , and watch ‘ Doctor Theatre ’ do his work . |
| 4 | Er ye well er , it was when , no let me think I went to Ipswich , I did a till the First War ended . |
| 5 | I had n't officially stopped work till the first of September . |
| 6 | ‘ Not till the second meeting . |
| 7 | As the most experienced grown-up , I had calculated I would hold my edge till the second day . |
| 8 | This time d'Aubigny waited and would have done till the Second Coming . |
| 9 | And then it did n't start up till then till the second one came the Joseph Jo er The second one was John it was christened . |
| 10 | Well might and wait till the second of July and get it all second hand . |
| 11 | Right the situation in Maastricht up till the nineteenth century was that It was described as a di- or tri-glossic erm linguistic community . |
| 12 | Though other , and earlier , examples are known , the term is normally employed for a typically English technique first evolved in the seventeenth century but not fully developed till the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries . |
| 13 | But she was n't away till the third or the fourth , if you could get it within the very first few days |
| 14 | Oh I thought he were n't available till the third of March . |
| 15 | Must be maybe it 's just the boss is away , till the fifteenth . |
| 16 | Its power continued till the fifteenth century , after which it declined in face of competition from new trade routes opening up . |
| 17 | All can seem well till the last moment . |
| 18 | But I did n't show it to her till the last night in case it did n't go down well . |
| 19 | Joe Asnett never shuts at weekends till the last bugger drops . |
| 20 | God in the middle contending for the world , a man on his left choosing to side with the Evil One till the last , and on the right a thief who with his last gasp offered his broken solidarity back to God for healing and restoration . |
| 21 | He was an effortless survival of the 1930s , where fiction had abounded in well-meaning young men who had striven to Do the Right Thing and come to grief , at least till the last page of the story . |
| 22 | Precision laser fire sliced through the berserkers , killing human torch after human torch till the last had fallen . |
| 23 | That was my husband 's favourite so I 'm keeping that one till the last . |
| 24 | I 'm keeping that one till the last , was what she 'd told Carrie . |
| 25 | You know I mean you er er it 's al I , I think the same would happen if you put a five note in inside it would get thrown out with the rubbish but erm the thing is that obviously some , some early day , if one can say in inverted commas early day publicity erm from the Northumberland side of things could a and I mean my view when , when Ros was telling me what happened at the last meeting erm was that was gon na be acting as an icebreaker as opposed waiting till the last minute somebody 's gon na and they think erm as it were , a and build up from , from that because there 's obviously gon na be one or two other things coming directly from national level . |
| 26 | This is not to say that whatever mystery you have chosen so as to lead your hero or heroine into these successively more and more suspenseful situations will have to be kept entirely hidden from your reader till the last pages . |
| 27 | It 's something that I usually say , Leave till the last . |
| 28 | He stayed till the last ball before lunch of a gripping third day , when Benjamin yorked him off stump ; his 163 was a remarkable effort after previously recording only four first-class centuries . |
| 29 | BELVILLE : Well , be it so , but do n't defer till the last day of the second week . |
| 30 | From when anybody started , the training goes right through up till the last bit of training they 've done . |