Which preposition to use with series

of Occurrences 4675%

The marshal had a series of dinners and receptions which were most brilliant.

in Occurrences 113%

Until the New York club played its first series in Cincinnati, which began May 18, the Reds were booming along at the top of the league, apparently with no intention that they might ever drop back.

for Occurrences 35%

No. 14 closes this series for the year 1837.

on Occurrences 22%

Some of his essays, like the series on Paradise Lost, deal with literary criticism; but most people to-day read little from his pen except the Sir Roger de Coverley Papers, which give interesting pictures of eighteenth-century life and manners.

by Occurrences 19%

The distinguished writer having kindly offered them to the ATHENÆUM, we think it advisable to perfect the Series by this reprint; and, from the limited sale of the work in which it originally appeared, it is not likely to have been read by one in a thousand of our subscribers.

with Occurrences 19%

In 1905 the fans of Philadelphia saw only two games in a world's series with New York.

to Occurrences 16%

In a series whose basins lie in the same cañon, and are fed by one and the same main stream, the uppermost will, of course, vanish first unless some other lake-filling agent comes in to modify the result; because at first it receives nearly all of the sediments that the stream brings down, only the finest of the mud-particles being carried through the highest of the series to the next below.

as Occurrences 10%

PROBLEM Much discussion arose after the finish of the last world's series as to whether the adjustment of dates had worked satisfactorily.

from Occurrences 8%

It was also thought desirable to increase the number of trials per day from a single series during the early days to two or even three series from June 29 on.

at Occurrences 7%

Here came another test in a Philadelphia series at Philadelphia which contained postponed games, and once more rallying with all their might, won four games and lost the last of this series of five.

without Occurrences 4%

There are seven grinders; the teeth form a continuous series without a diastema.

per Occurrences 3%

Consequently, the form of the curve is determined chiefly by the first series per day.

between Occurrences 2%

I saw the result of it in the series between the Cubs and White Sox last fall.

along Occurrences 2%

Before the inward eye rises the phantom host of these boy-officers who sprang to England's aid in the first year of the war, and whose graves lie scattered in an endless series along the western front and on the heights of Gallipoli.

into Occurrences 2%

Still, it does not require any manipulation to combine the "literary" epics from both series into a single process.

through Occurrences 1%

The Realists are ushered in by Masolino, Masaccio, Filippo Lippi, and go on in an unbroken series through Botticelli, Filippino Lippi, and Cosimo Roselli, to Domenico Ghirlandajo, Leonardo, Raffaello, and a design of Michel Angelo, painted by one of his pupils.

after Occurrences 1%

Apparently on the verge of losing the series after the Saturday game in Boston the Giants had gamely fought their way to a tie with Boston, and it was one of the pluckiest and gamest fights ever seen in a similar series, and just as the golden apple seemed about to drop into the hands of the New York players they missed it because Dame Fortune rudely jostled them aside.

during Occurrences 1%

It was also thought desirable to increase the number of trials per day from a single series during the early days to two or even three series from June 29 on.

down Occurrences 1%

And then the room filled and trembled with sounds that Harris understood full well were the failing voices of others who had preceded him in a long series down the years.

than Occurrences 1%

The names of persons also more frequently occurred in this series than in any other.

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