Example sentences of "come [prep] the [adj] [num] " in BNC.

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1 In the upheaval that was to come during the next 12 months , only the ECSC seemed to have avoided the scrapheap .
2 The remainder come from the following four categories :
3 If I was to have any chance of being posted to Calvi , I would have to come in the top five in basic training .
4 ‘ Maybe if you 'd accepted my offer of an air ticket to all the other Grands Prix I would have come in the first six there , too . ’
5 He lacked the confidence that has come in the last three or four years to make decisions and stick to them .
6 It was n't Miss Wharton 's morning and Mr Capstick , who likes to come to the nine thirty Mass , had influenza .
7 And you 're most likely , here not just for communion but because it 's your custom to come to the six thirty service .
8 But if progress in the past couple of decades has appeared hectic , there is plenty to come over the next two .
9 Fifth-placed man Liam O'Brien from East Cork AC has run every one of the 15 Ballycotton races and has never come outside the top five .
10 If Brian Lara 's timing and placement helped to give the West Indies ' innings its early momentum — 81 came off the first 20 overs — Simmons used his massive strength to devastating effect as 102 were plundered off the next 15 overs .
11 Also on the recovery trail is Marine fullback Keith Proctor , who came through the full 90 minutes of a reserve game at the weekend after a six-week injury lay-off .
12 Their opportunity to discredit the reformers and gain influence with the king came in the late 1530s .
13 The first intimations that the forces which had lain dormant for two centuries would soon be unleashed came in the late 1870s , when frequent minor earthquakes began to shake the areas round the Sunda Straits .
14 The major step forward in understanding the role of chlamydia in oculo-genital infection came in the early sixties when a group of workers in London published several reports connecting eye infection in the newborn baby with the presence of chlamydia in the mother 's genital tract and non-specific urethritis in the father .
15 But the big break came in the early '60s , when Moseley met Nokie Edwards of top guitar instrumental group The Ventures .
16 His opportunity to bring the two threads together as a writer came in the early 1980s through the radical London magazine City Limits — which also gave WCM regular Rob Steen his first break as a cricket-writer .
17 The high point of monetarism came in the early 1980s .
18 A major breakthrough came in the middle sixties when an antigen was isolated from an Aborigine who was suffering from hepatitis .
19 The best bit of leeds pressure and the noisiest participation from the crowd came in the next 10 mins or so .
20 Two of the goals came in the last two minutes .
21 this match will go down in the records as a runaway victory for United but all the goals came in the last ten minutes …
22 More specifically though , the sharpest decline in employment in manufacturing within this period came in the later 1960s , with the ‘ shake-out ’ associated with the merger boom and the accompanying ‘ rationalisation ’ of enterprises ' activities , a process which was in part stimulated by fiscal deflation and in part actively sponsored by quasi-state agencies such as the Labour government 's Industrial Reorganisation Corporation .
23 All the errors quoted in this section came from the one hundred .
24 Of the 17 trainees who won prizes or a place in the order of merit in November 's PE1s , all but three came from the Big Six , and the others came from BDO Binder Hamlyn and Stoy Hayward .
25 When I came to the last two years of school , I wanted to specialize in mathematics and physics .
26 Two of the reasons for this reputation came at the first two majors of the 1986 season — the US Masters and US Open .
27 AUSTIN Rawlinson 's finest hour as a competitor came at the famous 1924 Chariots of Fire Olympics in Paris , where he finished fifth in the final .
28 Immigration to Britain from India and Pakistan has followed a slightly different pattern , with the real increase coming in the early 1960s , and later in response to the threat of the immigration controls that were eventually enshrined in a series of Immigration Acts , beginning with the 1962 Act ( Robinson , 1986 ) .
29 Yet , the unambitious satiric intentions are fulfilled , the most successful sequences coming in the first fifteen minutes .
30 The mainland campaign had been just a foretaste of what might be coming in the next two months , said RUC Chief Constable Sir Hugh Annesley .
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