Example sentences of "well [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judit performed even better in the second half than the first . |
| 2 | Capriati showed a little bit of rust from an eight-week lay-off , but her big first serve consistently registered 100mph and she said : ‘ I felt a lot better in the second set , I got into it a lot more . ’ |
| 3 | Once you 've done it once it actually relatively easy for you to improve it an an and getting it better in the next iteration , erm that is exactly the situation you 've got here . |
| 4 | The horses always go much better on the second day , which makes the long journey seem worthwhile . |
| 5 | On the other hand they indicated that former President Giscard d'Estaing ( UDF ) was likely to do better on the second ballot by taking centrist votes , with the result that , in late 1990 , the UDF seemed less concerned to reach an agreement . |
| 6 | We need to play a lot better over the next season or else . |
| 7 | ‘ Brian Gayle did n't defend well for the first goal and Gage did a Val Parnell act in the middle of the park to set up the lad for his second . ’ |
| 8 | Our heading has worked well for the second quarter of our route , so we 'll keep to it — but hold on , what 's this ? |
| 9 | They also had previous experience , so we hoped all would go well for the second run . |
| 10 | Yeah , well for the last year |
| 11 | I 've been doing well for the last week , but I took this heavy cold , well from Thursday , since I 've took this heavy cold I 've hardly smoked . |
| 12 | I think , we ought to be taking time to try and prepare , well for the next assembly and in doing so to own what goes on there and to say , yes as the previous speaker said we are the World Church in a very real way . |
| 13 | With my own two children , I felt cheerful and reasonably well during the first pregnancy ; the bonding process with the baby was immediate and passionate , but nine months later I was seeking medical help for exhaustion . |
| 14 | Margaret continued to cope fairly well during the next year . |
| 15 | By now , the household of The Kilns had taken on the shape which it was to maintain until well after the Second World War . |
| 16 | The theory that continents drifted about was proposed long ago by the German geophysicist Alfred Wegener , but most people laughed at him until well after the Second World War . |
| 17 | According to the LFS code book , temporary jobs in the first category can include jobs the termination of which " is fixed for , by example , reaching a certain date or completing an assignment , or by return of an employee who has been temporarily replaced " ( our italics ) i.e. jobs that could fit equally well into the second category whilst jobs in the second category are taken to include those with " a work contract for a specific task or a fixed period of time " ( our italics ) i.e jobs that could fit equally well into the first category . |
| 18 | A great wave of Greek influence in Rome began in the mid-second century BC with the conquest of Greece , and lasted well into the first century , by which time it had become a well-established fashion for young men of well-to-do families to complete their education in Athens . |
| 19 | ‘ The gun stayed in the pocket of your jacket in the Green Room until well into the second act . |
| 20 | According to the LFS code book , temporary jobs in the first category can include jobs the termination of which " is fixed for , by example , reaching a certain date or completing an assignment , or by return of an employee who has been temporarily replaced " ( our italics ) i.e. jobs that could fit equally well into the second category whilst jobs in the second category are taken to include those with " a work contract for a specific task or a fixed period of time " ( our italics ) i.e jobs that could fit equally well into the first category . |
| 21 | The illusion that the country was performing adequately persisted , however , well into the second half of this century — partly because the empire provided protected markets for products that were not good enough for the most advanced countries , partly because of the accident of victory in two world wars . |
| 22 | But despite this slight shift in the taboos , as late as the 1920s Havelock Ellis and Albert Moll were still able to recommend little metal suits of armour fitted over the genitals and attached to a locked belt as prophylaxis for masturbation , and sex education books continued to inveigh against the solitary vice well into the second half of the century . |
| 23 | Russia until well into the second half of the nineteenth century is a more striking example . |
| 24 | A high proportion of diplomats everywhere still began their careers , until well into the second half of the nineteenth century , by serving as unpaid attachés ; and it was not unusual for the head of a mission to ask for a son or a nephew to be assigned to it in this capacity . |
| 25 | Extra time was deadlocked until well into the second period when both Bolton full-backs moved up , Cowdrill passed square to Brown and a powerful long-range strike hurtled past Digby . |
| 26 | ‘ Lady ’ Betty pursued a career of hanging and flogging well into the 19th century and Declan Donnellan 's account of her life is told with a distressing mixture of savagery and sentiment ; the hangwoman herself is portrayed by Sally Dexter with hateful harpiness relieved by startling moments of tenderness . |
| 27 | These arguments in favour of , or against , granting the press its freedom continued well into the 19th century . |
| 28 | With great daring Philip actually wrote in his third Report that occupation of the villa ‘ certainly lasted until the very end of the fourth century , and possibly well into the fifth century ’ ( p. 60 ) . |
| 29 | One of our more perceptive archaeological historians , Malcolm Todd , could write in 1981 in his survey of Roman Britain 55 BC — AD 400 : ‘ Archaeologists are now much more confident of their ability to demonstrate urban occupation until well into the fifth century in many of the cities and towns of Britain than they were twenty years ago ’ , but hastily adds ‘ though this confidence is not shared by all historians of the period . ’ |
| 30 | In many chapels a more traditional , eighteenth-century practice as to church discipline was followed well into the twentieth century . |