Example sentences of "then the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the first criticism we read is of Shakespeare ( an Othello casebook , typically ) , then the first contemporary poe we come across is probably Ted ( ‘ a black — /Back gull bent like an iron-bar slowly ’ ) Hughes . |
| 2 | Suppose we have quarterly figures y 1 , y 2 , y 3 , y 4 , y 5 , Then the first 4-quarter moving average will be corresponding to a time point midway between the second and third quarters , and the second will be corresponding to a time midway between the third and fourth quarters . |
| 3 | Then the first sad thing happened . |
| 4 | Then the first human vessels were sighted , following the initiative of the Seraph Kajsa . |
| 5 | If Childebert and Chlothar were indeed adding to the first sixty-five , or even the first seventy-eight , clauses of Lex Salica , then the first Merovingian code can be dated before 511 . |
| 6 | Slowly , he moved nearer to me , but just then the first wild man began to get up from the ground . |
| 7 | Throw the next top spit into the trench bottom , and then the second bottom spit on top . |
| 8 | By now I was thoroughly enjoying this superb route with its delightful sloping traverse , then the last steep arête to an abrupt finish on Wimbledon turf . |
| 9 | ‘ If present government fails to heed the views of the RSPCA , the House of Lords and the vast majority of public opinion then the next Labour government will introduce a mandatory dog registration scheme . |
| 10 | And then the next little breath he 's off to America and you do n't see him for four weeks . |