Example sentences of "[adv] the [adj] [noun] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has carried on the good work this term and is well on the way to establishing himself in the top 10 with 16 wins in the current campaign . |
| 2 | We can go down the bottom end this way |
| 3 | This review is perhaps the last chance this century to get things right . |
| 4 | So the next night this m the man comes down to the shore and here was two men with a rowing boat . |
| 5 | It was only the second time this season we 've been comprehensively beaten . |
| 6 | With Britain 's other 1500 metres hope , Kevin McKay , also missing out , we do n't have a runner in the final for only the second time this century . |
| 7 | Chatam , running for only the second time this season , went a length up as the pair jumped the last together but Mark Dwyer , riding with hands and heels , forced Jodami a head in front at the post . |
| 8 | It is only the second time this century that a school of sperm whales has been seen in the waters around Orkney . |
| 9 | This is only the fifth time this has happened in 20 years : the others were in 1970 , 1973 , 1974 and 1981 . |
| 10 | Last year 's unstoppable strikeforce of Mark Hateley and Ally McCoist will team up for only the third time this season , Hateley with a ten goal start on his partner . |
| 11 | On the strength of its hearings for the first eighteen applications the Reviewing Committee for the Export of Works of Art duly stopped all the drawings and starred the group , thus indicating its special status only the sixth time this has ever happened . |
| 12 | ‘ What you 've done , Mr Brown , ’ said the Chief Constable of Bedfordshire with icy rage , ‘ is to blow away the biggest drug-bust this county was ever likely to have and now , I fear , never will have . |
| 13 | ‘ Look , Kate , you 're not the only person this has happened to . |
| 14 | It 's not the first time this has happened : he 's gone with prostitutes before . |
| 15 | A spokesperson for the workers said the dust was so thick in the air it could be seen : ‘ This is not the first time this had occurred . |
| 16 | The decision in 1990 by Britain to join the ERM was , indeed , not the first time this century that she has tried to defend herself from the possible consequences of wrong decisions by her own politicians by linking herself to those made by politicians in another country , through the mechanism of a fixed or managed exchange rate . |
| 17 | And it 's not the first time this has happened . |
| 18 | Maybe about 1,000–1 , ’ said the only man who can pull off the improbable four-timer this year . |
| 19 | What with Mrs Clements and the girls also gone for the week , I suppose I was very conscious of the fact that once I departed , Darlington Hall would stand empty for probably the first time this century — perhaps for the first time since the day it was built . |
| 20 | Haunted by the spectre of Northern Soul , wrapped in perfect pop melodies and probably the best record this year . |
| 21 | Those of us who were there to witness his quite wretched display against Dundee United in the league in those first few months , and to hear Graeme Souness 's private condemnation of it later , can only realise now the formidable character this player is blessed with . |
| 22 | Erm but I think it 's gone a bit too far the other way this time unfortunately . |
| 23 | Fiji 's disappointing display at last year 's tournament , according to Simpkin , was simply due to infighting within the Fiji camp and was mainly because Simpkin was n't the only coach this time around . |
| 24 | For it was n't the first time this had happened , by no means . |
| 25 | The paper has been published since 1943 : maybe the 50th anniversary this year will see it achieve the meaning of its name — ‘ Liberation ’ . |
| 26 | With the Arkansas governor a Rhodes Scholar at the university in 1968-69 looking all set for victory , it meant the US would become at least the 10th nation this century to boast a leader taught at the city of the dreaming spires . |
| 27 | But there was still a estimated overspend of at least the same amount this year , on top of a deficit of £38 million last year , said BBC spokesman Will Wyatt . |
| 28 | If the case raised factual issues , then the fact-oriented procedure should be allowed unless there were compelling reasons of time why the extra delay this would cause was unacceptable . |