Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] the [adj] [num] " 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 | Grenada was the last tiny but bitter dreg in the constitutional cup which the United Kingdom has drained in the past thirty-five years ; and bravely , though not without a grimace of disgust , did we swallow it . |
| 5 | Yesterday saw Hopkinson in sad , frustrated mood , attacking the ‘ complacency ’ among many field sportsmen and bewailing the lack of support he has received over the past seven years . |
| 6 | Much of the publicity that drug usage has received over the last two or three years has been counter-productive . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The idea of ‘ care in the community ’ has developed over the past 20 years to encourage the development of services to help older people in need of care to remain in their own homes for as long as they wish , and for as long as is practical . |
| 10 | It is obviously a very exciting project for us though , and it will allow Kylie to show just how much she has developed over the past three years . |
| 11 | Although interest in soil erosion has developed in the late 1970s ( e.g. Morgan , 1979 ) it is a paradox that earlier work , for example developing from the Universal Soil Loss Equation ( Wischmeier , 1976 ) , did not materialize . |
| 12 | In contrast , the state has played little role in the protection of women against domestic violence although a very active voluntary sector has developed in the past 20 years . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Already people who cancelled in January and February are back in our shops booking to go within the next two or three weeks . |
| 15 | MINISTERS are bracing themselves for the release of unemployment figures on Thursday which are expected to go over the three million mark . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Rainfall in October could reach record levels — more rain has fallen in the first two weeks than usually falls in the entire month . |
| 19 | Together with the credits provided by export credit agencies , much of it for military hardware , this policy has culminated in the late 1980s in the accumulation of a mountain of debt which can not be serviced on the original schedule of payments . |
| 20 | However , it should also be noted that the interval between marriage and the birth of the first child has lengthened since the early seventies . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He lacked the confidence that has come in the last three or four years to make decisions and stick to them . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Oftel admits that the new system will be no more efficient and that the annual number of emergency calls is expected to increase from the current 22.8 million a year to 24 million by 1996 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | America 's share of external lending has slumped over the past eight years , to 9% , but lending from continental Europe has soared . |
| 28 | The number of one-parent families has grown in the past two decades increasing by almost 80 per cent between 1971 — when there were just over half a million one parent families — and 1986 when there were just over a million . |
| 29 | ‘ A company which has grown in the past two or three years may have been unable to move to larger premises , partly because it has been unable to pass on its present lease . |
| 30 | 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 . |