Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seven or eight hours later the 20-page script would be finished and the Teacher 's depleted . |
| 2 | EIGHT months ago the conservative Daily Telegraph seemed a happy media parable of modern Britain . |
| 3 | Eleven months later the new Secretary of State said that he was equally committed to a very substantial expansion in student numbers , and stated that the government 's plans were for an increase of 50,000 by 1993 . |
| 4 | Thirty-six hours later the Big Man himself arrived by Air Malai DC-10 . |
| 5 | Just 30 minutes later the westerly switched itself off — just like that , as the man said — and we had to motor sail for the rest of the voyage . |
| 6 | Forty minutes later the small plane , now over its weight limit , due to the extra passengers , clawed its way into the sky , its two , turbo-charged , 220 horsepower engines screaming at full power , and headed northwards at eleven thousand feet towards Canada and its overnight destination of Goose Bay , Labrador . |
| 7 | Indeed it is this inaccuracy that leads to its often being called a circadian clock ( from the latin , circa — about ; diem — a day ) If it is correctly timed one day , it will be approximately 1 hour late the next , about 2 hours late the day after that , and so on until it will be ‘ useful ’ again after about 3 weeks . |
| 8 | Perspective conjoined — obscure dimensions amalgamated , over forty hours later the ‘ collage ’ or is it a ‘ montage ’ , becomes a single unit . |
| 9 | This is to prevent the offeror from acquiring more shares than he bid for under the partial offer , and shareholders in the target from receiving more favourable treatment from the offeror by selling in the market during the 12 months following the partial bid . |
| 10 | It is important to determine whether Bcl-2 blocks c-Myc-induced proliferation as well as apoptosis : the synergy between c-Myc and Bcl-2 can easily be rationalized if Bcl-2 blocks only the apoptotic function of c-Myc and leaves its mitogenic activity unaffected . |
| 11 | In previous years the selection of the carnival queen had been organised by elimination contests in the town and surrounding villages , but 30 years ago the committee asked that young ladies should send in a copy of a recent photograph . |
| 12 | However , over 30 years ago the theorist Paul Dirac suggested the possible existence of particles carrying single magnetic poles or ‘ charges ’ — in other words , magnetic monopoles . |
| 13 | In post-war years , from a maximum of 58 million passengers in 1950 , a steady decline has set in , so that 30 years later the annual total was only 8½ million . |
| 14 | 2 years ago the total was just under 8,000 . |
| 15 | 2 years later the CTs of 89 patients from local hospitals were reviewed . |
| 16 | Forty years ago the population was under 20,000 but now it is seven times that . |
| 17 | Forty years ago the population was under 20,000 but now it is seven times that . |
| 18 | Forty years ago the Theatre Collection was founded as a research centre for staff and students in the Drama Department . |
| 19 | Nearly forty years ago the great historian and wise commentator on contemporary events , E. H. Carr , published a series of broadcast talks called The New Society ( long since out of print ) . |
| 20 | Forty years ago the National Health Service was almost the only establishment they could turn to . |
| 21 | Forty years later the islet of old Jaimeni appeared . |
| 22 | Forty years later the Italians , in another unprovoked attack , used poison gas to ensure victory and shot many of their prisoners out of hand . |
| 23 | Forty years earlier the promise of town planning was that it could address the urban housing problems of the day , but the principles of environmental regulations were now seen to relate to a quite different set of questions : the problems of regional economic development . |
| 24 | The hostages , who were held for 444 days following the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran in September 1979 , were released within minutes of Reagan being sworn in as President on Jan. 21 , 1981 . |
| 25 | Twenty-one days later the Prince arrived to see what was going on . |
| 26 | 800 years ago the monks and laybrothers toiled in the Abbey and its extensive grounds . |
| 27 | We had taken 120 carp and 2 cats so the trip could hardly be deemed a ’ cat-astrophe ’ ( sorry but I could n't resist it ) when suddenly one of Rick 's rods was away . |
| 28 | British Telecom plc 's BoaT project , with 50,000 users potentially the biggest office automation scheme currently afoot in Europe , has picked StaffWare as its workflow standard : BT is the first organisation to adopt the new Windows client/Unix server version of StaffWare . |
| 29 | Eight decades later the incident still causes discussion and disagreement , and opinions vary about just what she intended to do . |
| 30 | The Suffolk side had the perfect start , as the impressive Fry waltzed through the visitors ' defence to settle any early nerves and just six minutes later the title was effectively Tuddenham Road bound . |