Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] of [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The English kings , however , were unlikely to be willing to relinquish a part of their inheritance which brought them revenue in the early fourteenth century of about £13,000 a year , and whose subjects accepted English rule . |
| 2 | The next day use two pieces of dry food as a first course , the next day use four and so on , gradually increasing the size of the first course until the dog 's meal comprises a huge first course of dry food followed by a minuscule second course of only a single nugget of dry food garnished with some juicy brown food as a reward for cleaning its bowl . |
| 3 | A second kind of apparently non-adaptive trait is self-sacrificing or ‘ altruistic ’ behaviour . |
| 4 | Middlesbrough 's Reserve League side will also take on the Glasgow juniors over six heats in the second half of tonight 's programme . |
| 5 | In addition to the expected amplification product of 140bp equivalent to PBRUC1 ( 9 ) , a second product of approximately 160bp was also observed following acrylamide gel analysis of the PCR mixture . |
| 6 | The crystal structure shows the presence of two probable DNA-binding sites : in addition to the residues already discussed , there is a second cluster of highly conserved basic residues in GH5 , consisting of Lys40 , Arg42 , Lys52 and Arg94 , which could interact with a second duplex of DNA ( Fig. 5 ) . |
| 7 | ITALIAN Fabrizio Tescari won his first World Cup race as defending champion Alberto Tomba crashed out on the second leg of yesterday 's slalom in Sestriere , Italy . |
| 8 | The 60-clause health bill contrasted starkly with a second bill of only one clause tabled yesterday on plans for student loans . |
| 9 | NOW THAT the Second World of formerly communist countries is falling over itself to join the First World , the name ‘ Third World ’ suits the rest of the planet less well than ever . |
| 10 | There is a tendency to start on the second stage of commercially produced baby foods at this point . |
| 11 | These were followed by a fourth sortie of around one hour ten minutes , involving a display . |
| 12 | The Times recorded that this was their sixth partnership of over 150 ; the Telegraph that it was their seventh century stand ; while the Guardian made it the eighth . |
| 13 | ‘ It was a good batting track yet we achieved our fourth score of less than one hundred this year . |
| 14 | Quote , Anna is possibly the most socially competent member of a sixth form of more than two hundred students . |
| 15 | as if to celebrate the opening of the new Block , the following year saw the record total of 23 State and Local University Entrance Awards , together with three Open Awards and four other places at Oxbridge : this from a Sixth Form of only 80 was no mean achievement . |
| 16 | Sorry to let you down like this , and miss the drinks and the lunch and the first bit of p.m . |
| 17 | The violence prompted a first wave of mainly Hutu refugees to flee to Rwanda and to Zaïre . |
| 18 | However , before then , in 1901 , the first batch of electrically driven trams were introduced in Chiswick , with a service running from Shepherd 's Bush to Kew Bridge and later extended as far as Hampton Court . |
| 19 | ‘ A first episode of bleeding several weeks ago led to a thyroid function test , and we found that to be a little low , so that 's now being treated medicinally . |
| 20 | Theirs is sometimes a robust way with Mozart , but it remains pleasantly flexible both tonally and rhythmically , and in the first work of all ( K19 d ) they show the kind of skill that unfussily makes the natural-sounding best of the conventional material written by a boy of nine on his London visit . |
| 21 | However , Braque was sufficiently unsettled by the example of Picasso to turn his studies of Cézanne to increasingly revolutionary ends , and in the canvases executed during the summer of 1908 at l'Estaque , Braque produced a series of completely original works , the first group of truly Cubist paintings . |
| 22 | That figural designs began to occur in the west in any numbers ( i.e. not counting the very early example from Exeter : Bidwell 1979 ) in approximately the same period as a further development of figural design is apparent in the southeast , is an interesting possibility : this may also have been contemporary with the first appearance of fully centralised designs . |
| 23 | It was the first sound of only partial acceptance ; Jezrael was waiting for more . |
| 24 | But the new Act requires the keeping of expensive records — from the time of the first gift of over £1,000 till death carries one off to the happier place , where neither thieves nor the tax-gatherers break through and steal . |
| 25 | Izvestiya of March 12 reported that officials were predicting a budget deficit in the first quarter of around 10 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) against the government 's target of 1 per cent . |
| 26 | This could be taken as a minor concession to advertising , except that the explicit statement at the beginning of the book seems related to an exclusion from the first volume of almost all the poems embodying Leapor 's sharpest social criticism . |
| 27 | The German Government Bond contract was the first example of really aggressive product innovation in Europe . |
| 28 | Tickets are now on sale for another raffle with a first prize of more than £60 worth of CDs . |
| 29 | The Wright Brothers , in 1903 , were able to demonstrate the possibility of flight by achieving the first flight of just thirty-six metres . |
| 30 | Was n't it in the first cousin of just this sort of place that two centuries earlier another wandering fiddler , the blind poet Raftery , had composed his famous lament about ‘ playing music to empty pockets ’ ? |