Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] in the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless the data given in Table 7.2 are the most widely quoted , and illustrate that the area already affected is immense and that average rates of deforestation in these regions are sufficiently high that there is a real danger that forests will disappear altogether in the next 200 years , especially as reforestation is replacing only c. 10 per cent of the cleared forest ( Lanly 1982 ) . |
| 2 | Toys mean little in the first few weeks — you are all your baby needs . |
| 3 | Divinity degrees require some study in each of the departments listed below in the first two years of the course . |
| 4 | There seems little chance of one of the party 's senior professionals stepping down in the next few months to create a by-election for the Tory chairman . |
| 5 | ‘ Acid house was nothing to what 's in store , ’ he says , and Danny nods excitedly in agreement : ‘ Who knows what 's going to come along in the next few years ? ’ |
| 6 | Seymour committed suicide on 20 Apr. 1836 ; his illustrations appear only in the first two parts of PP ( Apr. , May 1836 ) . |
| 7 | The bill , the most draconian to have been passed by any state , prohibited abortion in cases other than to save a woman 's life or in cases of rape ( if reported within five days ) or incest , where abortion would be permitted only in the first 13 weeks . |
| 8 | So many people give up because , after the elation of seeing the pounds fall off in the first few days , they lose heart when weight loss slows down . |
| 9 | Their numbers have dropped noticeably in the last five years and very dramatically since the 1880s , when 70 per cent of all cattle in the Netherlands were Groningens while Friesians represented only 18 per cent and were mainly restricted to Friesland and Drenthe . |
| 10 | Although things have picked up in the last six months , the work is more likely to be restructuring , rights issues or corporate rescues . |
| 11 | Companies behind with their accounts and returns submissions will have to catch up in the next 12 months . |
| 12 | When it comes to clothes and the British high street , I think the standard has dropped radically in the last five years . |
| 13 | In public perceptions the gap between Conservative unity and Labour unity narrowed sharply in the first few days of the campaign and again at the end , but actually increased very slightly in the third week . |
| 14 | Trailing 2-0 to the Second Division high-flyers , Wycombe bounced back in the last 20 minutes to force a replay with goals from skipper Glyn Creaser and Steve Thompson , a corporal in the RAF . |
| 15 | It 's the type of client , life assurance clients are the type of client where the commission 's all come out in the first four years . |
| 16 | However , Keegan 's No 2 , Terry McDermott , hinted that the move could be sorted out in the next few days . |
| 17 | But after all , he had come far in the last few months . |
| 18 | As Area Manager Martin Ellis said ‘ Adele has accomplished a great deal in her current position of Area Field Biologist , not least in her QA work carried out in the last two years , her Mouse-Alert sales and the careful co-ordination of Sentinel contracts ’ . |
| 19 | The operation is one of hundreds that have been carried out in the last few years by keyhole surgery . |
| 20 | For those who prefer scientific evidence for the effects of essential oils on the mind , let me draw your attention to some experiments carried out in the last ten years by John Steele ( an American research worker ) and Maxwell Cade , a British biophysicist . |
| 21 | He had several phone calls from Japan to deal with , and a request from a Bombay-based Hindu businessman that he fly out in the next few weeks to — as Mr Kapoor put it — ‘ spring clean ’ his collection of modern primitives . |
| 22 | This is not to undervalue the change in judicial thinking which has come about in the last 30 years . |
| 23 | Cipollini , who recently declared himself to be the fastest finisher in the world , crossed the line in second place but with both arms in the air in protest over Abdoujaparov 's jersey-pull , which , say the race referees , occurred twice in the last half-mile . |
| 24 | THE past decade has proved just how foolhardy it would be to gaze into the crystal ball and confidently predict what lies ahead in the next 10 years . |
| 25 | Mr Taylor and Rick Parry , the Premier League chief executive , who spent much of the weekend trying to thrash out an agreement on the telephone , are likely to meet again in the next 48 hours . |
| 26 | In some years in the 1430s wages failed to keep pace with high prices , but they rose again in the next two decades . |
| 27 | Here we are , then , me and Anna , starving romantically in the next best thing to a garret : a tiny room in a dreadful hotel near the Pantheon . |
| 28 | Swindon has grown economically in the last 15 years and the unemployment level was down to a record low 2 to 3 years ago . |
| 29 | But wherever they end up , there 's a good chance they 'll be moved on again in the next few weeks — 28 groups have been moved on in the last 18 months and the County Council is moving on another group from Kirtlington , north of Oxford tomorrow . |
| 30 | I got excuse me , put down in the first eleven for hockey . |