Example sentences of "at [num ord] in [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Characters were deleted , at first in twos and threes , then wholesale . |
| 2 | Paul , from the work study potting office , finished first of the threesome at 595th in two hours 46 minutes in his 17th marathon . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's nice to be here , ’ he replied with a composed smile , seating himself at last in one of the armchairs , as the woman arranged the tea things on a small table in front of them . |
| 4 | At last in 1854 Forbes was duly appointed to the Edinburgh chair , but he died a few months later at the age of only thirty-nine ; there was a general feeling that he had worn himself out with drudgery , and that success had come too late . |
| 5 | Browne knew the Masai well and understood how alien such a proposal was to their consensual system of politics , but nevertheless this was the beginning of a long and unavailing effort by the British to set up the laibon as chief of the Tanganyika Masai , until at last in 1933 the current occupant asked to be relieved of his office . |