Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] [verb] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interim dividend is being cut from 2.53p to 1½p on August 17 , but the board intends maintaining last year 's 4.4p total . |
| 2 | The winner had finished fourth in the morning 's race . |
| 3 | He got long , ill-spelt letters from Claire every week , telling him what Doyle had done , and how Mary the cook was going into hospital , and the Labrador had taken first prize at the Eadstown Field Day . |
| 4 | From this age group , the level began to increase first slowly ( infant mortality at the maternal age group 30–34 was lower than in the age group 20–24 ) and from age 35 more rapidly , although the mortality of infants born to women in the 35–39 years old group was not much higher than in the age group 20–24 which is often considered as the prime time for reproduction . |
| 5 | The term appears to have first been used by Josephus , writing at least three-quarters of a century later , between A.D. 75 and 94 . |
| 6 | The bill was prepaid , so that he was away from the hotel before the front desk was manned , and the car had started first turn . |
| 7 | The club have to come first . ’ |
| 8 | The newsagent where the girl worked said last night that both paper boys and girls would now go out in pairs , or with an adult , and only in full daylight . |
| 9 | For example , in one strip the picture of the sun shining came first ( i.e. , on the left ) , and the picture of the snowman melting came second , whereas in the other strip the pictures were arranged in the opposite order . |
| 10 | The pastorate had passed first to his brother ; on his death it had reverted to one of the famous preacher 's twin sons . |
| 11 | The forelimb begins to develop first ; a small bulge appearing on the flank of the embryo — the first signs of the limb bud . |
| 12 | In Downing Street , the Cabinet began to have second thoughts . |
| 13 | the District has come second , out of 90 in the country , in the ‘ Most Improved ’ category of the British Gas Gold Flame awards . |
| 14 | Responding to criticism that the commission had said next to nothing about the role of university scientists , , president emeritus of the Rockefeller University in New York and co-chairman of the commission , said that any such comments would have been dismissed as special pleading . |
| 15 | A huge success , the government have said next year we can only borrow one million pounds to invest . |
| 16 | The Indian government is claiming $65 million to compensate for the craft ceasing to work last autumn . |
| 17 | Not Kenneth Grahame 's 1908 classic … but the answer to 'what happened next ? ' |
| 18 | The 9.43–10.12 question appeared in this test context also , and fewer pupils were successful than when the question was asked directly , probably because the information required had first to be selected by the pupils from all the figures given in the timetables . |
| 19 | These have understandably been strained by the collapse of BZW 's profits to £5m last year , as well as by the £110m the bank had to pay last November to buy out most of the 200 former partners who together owned a fifth of the investment firm . |
| 20 | The couple went missing last month . |
| 21 | Yesterday Nissan revealed that losses for the fiscal year ending this March will reach 29 billion yen ( £171 million ) , more than twice what the company had estimated last November . |
| 22 | One question policyholders should ask is — if the company did underperform last year , has this limited its options ? |
| 23 | At the end of its first year 's trading , turnover was around £250,000 , and the second year is going even better ; the company has achieved last year 's total within six months . |
| 24 | Selden B14 , a later fifteenth-century and unquestionably unreliable example , makes the Shipman 's Tale follow the Man of Law 's Tale , and consequently names the Shipman in the Epilogue of the Man of Law 's Tale where other manuscripts name either the Squire or the Summoner as the pilgrim offering to speak next . |