Example sentences of "series of [noun pl] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A series of alerts all over the mainland came as the IRA yesterday declared a 72-hour Christmas truce for Northern Ireland . |
| 2 | A series of documents both in the First and in the Second Book of Maccabees reflects — I believe quite authentically for the majority of them — the decline of Syrian power in Judaea , but does not offer any precise clue to the intentions of Antiochus IV in Hellenizing Jerusalem . |
| 3 | This series of moves forward along the hole is what is known as a multiple dig , but some people prefer to dig a trench all the way along the burrow until the ferret is reached . |
| 4 | It invariably turns out that an operator makes a series of decisions partly on the basis of what is currently displayed ( on-line information ) and partly on the basis of other material obtained from his knowledge of the system performance , his briefing and his operating instructions ( off-line information ) . |
| 5 | Inspect the dpc 150mm ( 6in ) above ground level — a series of holes just above the dpc at 150mm intervals will indicate that a chemical dpc has been added . |
| 6 | Framed in the grimy windows is a series of pictures rather like a personal film show : fleeting dramas of everyday life , and sometimes the astonishing beauty of an untouched landscape . |
| 7 | GMT ) on Feb. 24 , and consisted of a series of feints together with a three-pronged attack across a 480-km front . |