Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [num] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the 1960s , there were effectively only four companies in the British record industry , led by EMI and Decca . |
| 2 | With stories swirling and strengthening about a clutch of leading shares and Wall Street striding to new peaks , the index was down only 4.1 points at the close . |
| 3 | Unikix , installed in only six sites in the US although available over there since late 1990 ( due to a failure by Unicorn to market the product effectively , says Bull ) , is a development environment and transaction processing environment for Cobol-based applications developed to run under CICS on IBM mainframes . |
| 4 | The amendments to the Bill from the House of Lords were debated in only three hours as the Government guillotined the motion , and the Speaker of the House also ruled that a Lord 's amendment saying students should be entitled to Housing Benefit was invalid . |
| 5 | Put in approx 200 yds above the bridge . |
| 6 | Although it did so just 150 yards from the first inhabited house of the 7,000-population Sicilian town , the steaming wall of lava — here 20 feet high , and in other places towering more than 50 feet — managed first to swallow up a summer cottage and a vineyard dotted with fruit trees . |
| 7 | She lived in just four rooms including the bathroom and kitchen , which left six rooms disused and very run down . |
| 8 | Last season Ian gained full International honours , completed his century of Palace goals to join the select group of just five men to have achieved that feat for us since the club 's foundation back in 1905 , and scored twice as Palace beat Everton 4–2 to win the Zenith Data Systems Cup Final at Wembley , while his virtuoso hat-trick , scored in just eighteen minutes during the second half of Palace 's penultimate game of 1990–91 , at Wimbledon , demonstrated in magnificent style that when Ian is on form there is no more dangerous or exciting player than he in the entire Football League . |
| 9 | ‘ A train pulled in just 15 seconds after the blast if it had been a bit earlier then the casualties would have been a hell of a lot worse , ’ said eye-witness Andy Anderson , a Financial Times journalist . |
| 10 | The day started off on a bad note for Jess James from Charlton depot , his car broke down just 15 minutes from The Belfry . |
| 11 | Ladies ' K2 went to Portwich/Von Seck of Germany and the Germans also took the men 's K4 while the Russians took the C4 , a tight race considering it was a final with no preliminary rounds , 6 boats finishing in under 2.6 secs from the winners . |
| 12 | The promotion , with the banner ‘ Fresh Talent ’ , will run from 20th January to 10th March and will be backed by a major nationwide author tour , and p.o.s. , front-of-shop and window displays in nearly 500 branches of the WHS chain . |
| 13 | We currently have some 2,690 overseas students from around 100 countries studying alongside nearly 12,600 students from the UK . |
| 14 | These are being used with different degrees of intensity in about 20 classes over the year 1991-2 , with pre and post evaluation and ongoing classroom observation . |
| 15 | Nearly 400 people were arrested and a total of 500 kg of drugs seized on Aug. 25-27 , 1989 , in about 40 resorts along the Mediterranean coast as well as in Majorca , Ibiza , Tenerife , Cádiz and Seville during a crackdown on drug operators . |
| 16 | The Skills Audit was the first City Challenge project to get underway and the team carried out interviews in about 10,000 households in the area . |
| 17 | If one of those things does n't t ally with the record of me on the machine , then the doors will lock — including the doors to the elevators — and alarms will sound in about twenty places on the compound as well as in New York . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ There were only about 10 houses in the place , but there were so many people , you could n't believe it . |
| 19 | For a moment Robert thought she might have had her feet bound , and then he realized that her problem was simply that her face-mask was now so in line with Islamic law that her field of vision was only about six inches to the left and right of her . |
| 20 | When I got to the classroom , I found there were only about six students in the class , and we chatted idly until the lecturer arrived . |
| 21 | ’ You 're only about six kilometres from the sanctum , and you have your personal mini-ceptor to guide you . |
| 22 | So it may be significant that in 1023 the translation of Ælfheah 's body began on 1 June , only about six weeks after the anniversary . |
| 23 | In the eighteenth century the majority of garden roses flowered for only about six weeks from the middle of June until the end of July . |
| 24 | People living in the village of Middleton , between Hutton Rudby and Seamer , were concerned that their homes would be only about 230 metres from the new lines . |
| 25 | only about two years behind the |
| 26 | I apologise for the fact that I heard only about 40 minutes of the Minister of Agriculture 's speech . |
| 27 | Why then in 1986 were there only about 1,000 females over the age of forty in training ? |
| 28 | They were only about forty miles behind the German lines and were thus much closer to the front line than was usual on their operations . |
| 29 | Vesuvius , which is only about ten kilometres from the centre of Naples and in one of the most densely populated areas of Italy , has an irregular cycle of eruptions with twenty-five to thirty years of quiet being followed by a major outburst , when a great plume of dust and ash from the volcano rises over the city , reaching many kilometres into the air . |
| 30 | He was halfway down about ten yards from the launcher when the terrorists turned . |