Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [adv] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four minutes later John Fashanu poked home a Wimbledon equaliser after a corner and then Roberts , left dizzy and with a sore head , was led off — to be joined in the dressing room eight minutes later by the limping Ferdinand . |
| 2 | They were formed over fifty centuries ago by the Phoenix King Caledor the first at the start of the schism between the High Elves and the Dark Elves . |
| 3 | The task was carried out , in remarkable circumstances , more than forty years ago by a good friend of England , the French historian , Edouard Perroy . |
| 4 | The best way to see the avocets , enticed back to breed in Britain forty years ago by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , is by boat . |
| 5 | He says he was told about the Oxford ring 12 years ago by the former MI5 agent , Peter Wright , whose book Spycatcher caused such a stir . |
| 6 | It was first announced 12 days ago by the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , as part of the Government 's ‘ taking stock ’ exercise . |
| 7 | The afternoon 's activities in Chichester Harbour were somewhat amusing for spectators , the Sailing Challenge contest , followed 10 minutes later by the Novices Cup . |
| 8 | Institutions of the EEA would be an EEA Council ( one minister from each of the 19 countries and a representative of the EC Commission , chaired for six months alternately by an EC or an EFTA member ) , EEA courts to deal with disputes and to hear appeals on competition rulings , an EEA consultative committee , and an EEA joint parliamentary committee . |
| 9 | ABE NATHAN , the former RAF Spitfire pilot who for 23 years has led an often lonely crusade for peace , was jailed for six months yesterday by a Ramla court for breaking an Israeli anti-terrorism law by meeting the PLO chairman , Yasser Arafat , in September last year . |
| 10 | He was speared to death six years later by a Masai whose favourite bullock he insisted on requisitioning for a government destocking programme . |
| 11 | Dickinson , however , was the older , distinctly British roots this provided : the firm had been founded six years earlier by a group of ex-Spencer Stuart consultants . |
| 12 | Lee Anthony Roberts , aged 20 , the sex offender scarred for life when his five-year-old victim 's mother poured boiling water over his trousers , had his nine-year youth custody sentence for rape , imposed at Exeter Crown Court in November last year , cut to six years yesterday by the Court of Appeal . |
| 13 | It was written almost 100 years ago by a little-known American . |
| 14 | VICTIM SUPPORT has come a long way from the six-month experiment set up 10 years ago by a group of concerned professionals in Bristol . |
| 15 | These delays cost small businesses well over £1bn a year but Mrs Thatcher 's Government has not followed our EC partners in providing for automatic charging of interest on overdue bills , a step recommended 10 years ago by the Law Commission . |
| 16 | The Graduate School of Business was set up over 10 years ago by the Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie . |
| 17 | In 1968 , St Peter 's Primary School opened , to be followed eight years later by the opening of the church . |
| 18 | Each entry was scrutinised over the following eight weeks both by the dampness group and a panel of academic experts — who unknowingly had chosen the same winners . |
| 19 | Like Mary Kingsley she was down-to-earth and when her expedition reached Abu Simbel she was horrified to see that the colossal figure of Rameses II was disfigured by plaster left on it fifty years before by an enthusiastic cast-maker . |
| 20 | The Chief of Staff of the Air Force , Vice-Marshal Momtazuddin Ahmed , confirmed publicly for the first time on May 10 the claim made eight days earlier by the head of the opposition Awami League Sheikh Hasina Wajed that there had been extensive damage to the country 's small fleet of aircraft . |
| 21 | In the first series of experiments , a bolus of saline labelled with 9 9 m Tc DTPA was instilled 20 cm proximal to the ICJ and transit was assessed three hours later by the geometric centre of the spread of isotope . |
| 22 | Similarly , the announcement on 8 March 1962 of the composition of the National Directorate of the ORI , which revealed that the Communist old guard would have the upper hand , was countered three weeks later by the denunciation of Anibal Escalante for ’ sectarianism' , a measure which forced the Soviet Union to take a stand . |
| 23 | The waiting list figures , released three weeks early by the Department of Health , show that the number of people waiting over two years for treatment in the Northern Region has dropped from 1,474 at the end of March , 1991 . |
| 24 | The message behind the television and radio campaign was reinforced by a mother who told of her only daughter being killed three years ago by a drunken motorist . |
| 25 | The fact that the polecat with young was sighted three years ago by a grumpy shepherd looking for a lost lamb at 5.30 a.m. on a March morning , two miles away from post number seven , is irrelevant . |
| 26 | Mr Lee recognises the 752-member assembly for what it is — an anachronism instinctively opposed to the reforms begun three years ago by the late President Chiang Ching-kuo ( a son of Chiang Kai-shek ) and carried on by Mr Lee . |
| 27 | Indeed , this whole topic was resurrected some three years ago by the demonstration of Y chromosome specific product obtained by the technique from pregnant women with male fetuses . |
| 28 | The undercover operation , code-named Operation Courier , was set up three years ago by the DEA in Cyprus to infiltrate Lebanese heroin groups in the Middle East and their connections in Detroit . |
| 29 | While there were , therefore , good grounds for pessimism about future progress , the question of whether integration could proceed beyond a limited sectoral level was answered three years later by the Treaty of Rome . |
| 30 | It was attractive with a fresh , clean image but was not sufficiently robust to withstand stacking on shelves and customer handling and was replaced three years later by the ‘ France Oeuf ’ carton . |