Example sentences of "[verb] [det] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may well be the case , but it leaves one with an increased sense of respect for Eric Shipton and his companions who , in 1929 , made each of the first three Nelion-Batian traverses ( up and down by what is now regarded as the Normal Route ) , in one day . |
| 2 | The Americans countered by accepting this for the first ten years , but adding an extra M per cent interest , bringing the annual figure to £40 million for the remaining fifty-two years . |
| 3 | Yet the longer she spent with Nathan Bryce the harder it was to accept that for the next four weeks her only escape from him would be in sleep . |
| 4 | Between two and four million people visited each of the first three festivals , and the sites were dramatically improved — often at relatively limited net cost . |
| 5 | Yeah well , you see , we found that for the first three or four years now they 've gradually dropped off a bit , but they did used to , I mean they still come , but it |
| 6 | The erm , any other areas that I 've drew particular attention as a , as a , key issue is on the matter of er legality and doing work for other bodies , which has been an issue here which er , as you may recall we mentioned that in the last two or three years . |
| 7 | There was indeed information given to Labour on this but that application proceeded by the Council and I think some of the officers have omitted that in the last few weeks . |
| 8 | I 'll be keeping this for the next few days with me looking after it . |
| 9 | ‘ I want Surere caught and brought here ; and I want him tried and executed , and I want this before the next public rest day , ’ he repeated . |
| 10 | After devoting much of the first ten years of his presidency to slow development of the institutions of democracy , Mr Mubarak has spent the past two in regression . |
| 11 | Institute Council member Douglas Llambias said the fine ‘ was out of all proportion to a guilty verdict ’ , and added that if the fines were capped , ‘ we should have been publicising that for the last 12 months . |
| 12 | He had warned the Assistant Commissioner , McPhee , and together they would ensure that for the next two or three days the City was flooded with agents who would alert them at once to an assembly . |
| 13 | I have n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing , but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the university and to sort of expand my contacts , and the Meeting House is one of those places which is open to the general public on Sundays for religious worship . |
| 14 | I had n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the University and to sort of expand my contacts . |
| 15 | ‘ At first , I was keen just to get round but having done that for the last three years , I am now seriously looking at winning the race . ’ |
| 16 | And so , depending on what you want to do on nine o'clock on Monday morning , you would take out the required floppy disc , put it in your computer , take out your data disc , which you would also have kept , put that in the second floppy disc unit , and you 'd be ready to run that particular application . |
| 17 | I have noticed this during the last two or three days that I have been sitting here , being able for the first time in this House , to see the faces of my old associates , I have admired the way in which they have cheered to keep their spirits up , and I have admired those who have done that knowing — knowing — that only a few weeks , possibly , remain , before the place that knows them now will know them no more . |
| 18 | The third reason why we 're , we 're pleased to see you here is that erm as a trades council , we 've and this er and Dick mentioned this in his introduction , we 've initiated a major international programme , major in terms of our size obviously as er as a local body , involving links between union activists here primarily in France er , in northern France , but also links now developing in Spain with the new ferry going between Portsmouth and Bilbao , we 're starting to meet with the unions in Spain who are interested in speaking about the , the , the differences in wages in terms and conditions working for the same ferry company , doing the same jobs in the port , a comparative look at how the , the wages terms and conditions differ and we want to , we want to go and visit them in the autumn and , and work out , and work on more links on a sector basis , so that our colleagues down in Bilbao in northern Spain can link up with people in the , in the , in similar sectors here and we 've done this over the last three and a half years with the unions in France , we 've had exchanges of all sectors , the public sectors , transport , erm , health , social services , shop workers . |
| 19 | Rikki Fulton also admitted he had not seen much of the first two series . |
| 20 | It would provide 20,000 temporary jobs per month , especially in rural areas at times when there was less work , and would include a low-cost housing programme , a national food programme , an urban community development programme , and a project to bring help to eastern El Salvador , which he said had suffered most in the last 10 years . |
| 21 | She could conceivably be denied by Kitrina Douglas , the winner of this season 's St Moritz Classic and European Masters , although even if she were to win each of the last four tournaments , she still might not make up the £30,000 deficit on De Lorenzi . |
| 22 | He should admit that his efforts have supplied few of the first 999 floors . |
| 23 | Both were headed by Prof. R.B. Le Page , who had produced some of the first linguistic studies of Jamaican Creole about twenty years previously ( Le Page 1961 ; Le Page and De Camp 1960 ; Cassidy and Le Page 1980 , originally published 1967 ) . |
| 24 | Cos you get a lot of snow in Germany but we have n't had much in the last two years . |
| 25 | I must confess I did nt see much of the first 60 mins ( football training ! ) . |
| 26 | The only disappointment was that after opening up a 50-point lead at the beginning of August , they failed to win any of the next four matches . |
| 27 | For example , at the peak of my running career in 1983 , I tore my plantar fasciitis and spent much of the next three years running at less than 100 per cent . |
| 28 | There he met Mohandas K. Gandhi , and spent much of the next 20 years acting as a conciliatory intermediary between Gandhi 's Congress Party and the British Government , latterly as a member of Gandhi 's entourage . |
| 29 | Meanwhile Chris Protheroe , who spent much of the next few months at the massive Boeing plant in Seattle , was trying to discover the origin of the fatigue fracture of the stabilizer rear spar top chord . |
| 30 | With this in mind he spent most of the last two years of peacetime , training in Switzerland and then in the USA . |