Example sentences of "[conj] [num] [coord] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ones able to secure ‘ sugar daddies ’ fooled the poor men into thinking that there was a Tiller rule that they only go out in twos and threes and so managed to get meals for their best friends as well . |
| 2 | But he and the five or six other aficionados of control line flying , a hobby which peaked in the 1950s and 60s and then declined when the more sophisticated radio control models appear on the scene , are hooked into a pure form of aeronautical nostalgia . |
| 3 | This sale of antiquities will be marked by a collection of Egyptian pieces acquired between 1920 and 1940 and now estimated at £2 million ( $3 million ) . |
| 4 | I ca n't say I was extraordinarily good in the class , but neither was I bad , pretty average between one and ten and usually got a decent report . |
| 5 | Investment in canals and inland waterways peaked at around £1 million per annum in the canal mania of the 1790s , while outlay on the steady expansion and improvement of turnpiked roads averaged half a million pounds between 1760 and 1810 and thereafter doubled to £1 million . |
| 6 | The final question which arises is whether , in the exercise of our discretion , we should let mandamus go bearing in mind that the events with which we are concerned occurred as long ago as 1989 and then occupied no more than perhaps three quarters of an hour . |