Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was heavily pregnant but she was questioned and made to wait for the next twelve hours without food or water . |
| 2 | Alec Monk , formerly international advertising controller at Nestlé , refused to approve any commercial in which the brand name failed to appear in the first seven or eight seconds , and in which it was not repeated several times . |
| 3 | The number of babies delivered by Caesarean section has trebled in the last twenty years , according to a book just published . |
| 4 | Much of the publicity that drug usage has received over the last two or three years has been counter-productive . |
| 5 | The Barcelona festival is the most enjoyable , experimental stop on what Gibson jokingly calls the ‘ virtual rubber chicken circuit ’ , a global network of theoretical conferences , trade fairs and arty think tanks which has developed over the last two years to tap the millennial fascination with virtual reality . |
| 6 | The aid programme , as it has developed over the last thirty years , has failed in terms of its original objective , i.e. the promotion of a pattern of economic growth in which the injection of external finance on soft terms was no longer necessary . |
| 7 | Ritchie ( 1985 ) and Whittington and Ritchie ( 1988 ) argue that extensive machair has developed in the last 4000 years and that such a fundamental change in the geography and soils of the west coast would have had great influence on settlement history and patterns in this extreme marginal area . |
| 8 | Already people who cancelled in January and February are back in our shops booking to go within the next two or three weeks . |
| 9 | This state of affairs has altered over the last 12 months or so , with some excellent ‘ edutainment ’ products being released — like Broderbunds Kid Pix and Treehouse , and the high quality software from other US companies such as The Learning Company , Davidson and Sierra . |
| 10 | Inflation has fallen over the last three months and the cone of possible future inflation is now pointing slightly downwards , the bank reports in the first of its quarterly reviews of inflation produced in response to the Chancellor 's invitation in his speech at the Mansion House last year . |
| 11 | Crime in Strathclyde has fallen for the ninth consecutive month . |
| 12 | The number of people out of work has fallen for the fifth consecutive month . |
| 13 | Rainfall in October could reach record levels — more rain has fallen in the first two weeks than usually falls in the entire month . |
| 14 | The position of the team test driver , which McNish has occupied for the last two years with Marlboro McLaren , can lead to a permanent seat in the team — as happened to Damon Hill , who has replaced Nigel Mansell alongside Alain Prost with Williams-Renault . |
| 15 | He lacked the confidence that has come in the last three or four years to make decisions and stick to them . |
| 16 | We have n't gone , in physics , seriously into trying to understand the biological aspects , but then you see biology is becoming dominated in the last ten years by the understanding of basic biochemistry of cells . |
| 17 | As you play through this passage you should be careful with the position shift occurring on the third 16th note ( beat three ) of bar one . |
| 18 | Metcalfe and Richards point out that the strategic management literature has wrestled for the last 20 years with the problems of managing for results in unstable conditions , yet the lessons which emerge are just starting to be taken on board in the public sector . |
| 19 | The Strasbourg winger missed the opening games of the new season but has featured in the last four with no ill effects from his ligament damage . |
| 20 | As communication between Chinese Christians and Christians from around the world has grown over the last few years , the need for a regular English language update of information on Church life in China at all levels has been expressed in many quarters . |
| 21 | The proportion of jobs with pension schemes has grown in the last twenty years , with the result that the ‘ young ’ elderly have a greater chance of benefiting from them than the older elderly . |
| 22 | Richard Brucciani , chairman of the CBI Smaller Firms Council , said : ‘ This survey shows that smaller firms ’ optimism has weakened over the last four months . |
| 23 | Certainly , there is evidence that the number of women convicted of assaults , woundings and violent crime has risen over the last two decades . |
| 24 | In Gloucestershire the number of young offenders cuationed has risen in the last 2 years from 44% to 70% . |
| 25 | Held back for a long time by wild hitting , she has accepted in the last 12 months that there are occasions when she must suppress the urge to attack everything flat out . |
| 26 | No matter what the definition , statistics show that the government sector of the economy has expanded over the last 150 years ( see Fig. 15.6 ) , both in money and real terms , and as a percentage of National Income . |
| 27 | ‘ I am delighted that they are doing so well in Darlington and that the company has expanded over the last few years . ’ |
| 28 | This positive momentum has accelerated over the last two or three years , though the Campaign is the first to recognise that it is only a modest part of a much larger movement . |
| 29 | Er , we did it erm , er just after 1919 when er , er we started backing the white Russians and erm , before we write off erm everything the Communist er Government of er Russia has done over the last seventy years as being evil , what I think we 've got to be aware of is that we may once more be unleashing the forces of nationalism , which in 1914 , and I think of going up er in the period in the thirties very much lead to erm two world wars , and er I 'd like to know more about er some of the forces the so called democratic forces that are backing erm Mr Yeltsin . |
| 30 | That 's what we er we want , that 's what we require , because do n't forget old people er , in fact our present national treasurer , a Mrs Mary , is now serving as the national treasurer and has done for the last thirty five years . |