Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [adj] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | London Underground is planning to invest £3,500 million over the next three years . |
| 2 | And of course Oxford supporters do n't need reminding that last season they led Fulham 1-0 after the first leg and they lost 5-3 at home . |
| 3 | The report also states that the university is to borrow £20 million over the next 25 years to finance the provision of 2,000 extra bed spaces for students by 1995 . |
| 4 | GREAT BRITAIN 'S team of Mark Petchey and Chris Wilkinson yesterday beat Czechoslovakia 2-1 in the first round of the European men 's team tennis championships in Trieste , Italy . |
| 5 | There is a minor triumph for British tennis when Jo Durie , Clare Wood and Anne Hobbs beat Indonesia 3-0 in the first round of the Federation Cup in Tokyo . |
| 6 | It has become usual that there should be a generally drafted indemnity against all taxation liabilities arising from trading transactions prior to the last balance sheet date and which were not provided for in such accounts , or which arose from transactions outside the ordinary course of business since that date . |
| 7 | Portugal , who beat England 1-0 in the last World Cup , need to do a bit more than that next Wednesday to deny the Czechoslovakians a place in next year 's finals — they need to win by four goals . |
| 8 | ENGLAND beat Guatemela 14-8 on the second day of the third Limited Handicap World Championship at the San Cristobal Polo Club in Santiago yesterday , writes Eric Weil . |
| 9 | Unix International last week described SunSoft Inc as the first reference technology supplier to be chosen under its new expanded technology selection process ( UX No 422 ) . |
| 10 | The seniors , managed jointly by County President Peter Woodward and Richard Morris and coached by Chelmsford 's Paul Morris , beat Lincolnshire 3–0 in the first round and Cambridgeshire 5–0 in the semi-finals . |
| 11 | The programme has increase six-fold in the last 10 years and employs more than 2000 scientists at four establishments as well as commissioning research outside . |
| 12 | The manifesto contains a promise to invest £6,300 million over the next three years in the trunk road and motorway network , with concentration on the building of bypasses , a further 40 of which will be opened by 1995 . |
| 13 | The uncertainty of the fat child or the onset of puberty which can make swimming baths one of the first circles of hell for the adolescent , so vividly evoked by Kathryn Ensall 's ‘ Girls in Line at the Swimming Baths ’ ( 1988 ) , or the terrifying prospect of the first day at school captured by Shanti Panchal are all expressions of modern sensibility and above all , of childhood and adolescent anxiety , constructed out of an acute embarrassment with themselves and their situation . |
| 14 | And she had made Paddy happy in the last few months of his life . |
| 15 | The scheme , costing £45 million over the next three years , will see the creation of children 's clubs , childminding facilities and extended classes after school and during long holidays . |
| 16 | As with the first example , it was not certain whether the Hague Rules defences available to the first carrier were available to the second carrier . |
| 17 | The department will provide $19.5 million over the next three years to build Solar Two , a sum to be matched by the South California Edison Company and ten other industrial partners . |
| 18 | Under the electronics plan , government and industry ( including foreign firms in Prance like IBM ) should spend £12000 million over the next five years . |
| 19 | ‘ We have been told to find a reduction in beds and save £8 million in the next seven years across the region . |
| 20 | Crusaders , who hammered Wakefield 30-0 in the first round , were never in front and were let down by bad handling in atrocious conditions . |
| 21 | Lots of inquiries about Foster and Allen they 're coming on the programme later they 've just got number one for the first time with their new video with their new single I do n't know I 'm not quite sure we 'll find out when they get here well they 've just got number one for the first time and they 've been trying hard for a long time . |
| 22 | Lots of inquiries about Foster and Allen they 're coming on the programme later they 've just got number one for the first time with their new video with their new single I do n't know I 'm not quite sure we 'll find out when they get here well they 've just got number one for the first time and they 've been trying hard for a long time . |
| 23 | Those who saw the 30 yard putt she holed stone dead at the eighth , or her playing of the 18th , where she hit a glorious seven iron to ten feet before holing for her birdie , could be forgiven for wondering what on earth she was talking about . |
| 24 | The Department of Health will spend £300 000 over the next three years on testing the safety and effectiveness of new dental materials . |
| 25 | We have now licensed well over a hundred cable TV networks and this new industry expects to invest £3,000 million over the next five years . |
| 26 | That has put some Names under pressure when losses incurred by Lloyd 's syndicates seem likely to breach £2 billion for the second year in succession . |
| 27 | A 1-0 win keeps Swindon second in the first division . |
| 28 | At the beginning of 1991 Brady suggested that the operation would cost $80,000 million in the next year alone , and he pressed Congress to provide immediate additional funds . |
| 29 | Accordingly the agreement involved tax increases — totalling $134,000 million in the first year alone — and included new taxes on petrol , alcohol and luxury items . |
| 30 | MARTIN DUGARD rode unbeaten on his home track as England outclassed Australia 73–35 in the first Test at Oxford last night . |