Example sentences of "[verb] be in the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er indeed nationally there has been in the last twelve months , a three percent er reduction in traffic flows in any event . |
| 2 | The final indignities suffered by our old church has been in the last few years . |
| 3 | It was said of Brent under the Labour council : ’ If you have a council that is as monumentally incompetent as Brent 's has been in the last few years , it rightly gets a major vote of censure from the public . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I was bumped on to the rail six or seven times and I think I would have been in the first four but for that , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Now , we hear time and time again of the one million capital that was spent and yes and I do hope that the provisions that will now be made through a combined budget which Mr seems to think is half a million but I can assure you it is not half a million however , I do I can further reassure him that by the time the Highfields er and Moat management committee have gone through with this it will be half a million , there will be a proper budget provision as it should have been in the last five to six years . |
| 6 | We are all aware that streams dry up , valleys fill with silt ( Fig. 3 ) , and that changes can occur along the coast , but we perhaps underestimate how great these changes may have been in the last 1000 years . |
| 7 | Bedford was the only new earl created by Edward III after his family settlement in 1362 , and his patronage of the nobility was markedly less generous than it had been in the first two decades of his reign . |
| 8 | That had been in the first exhilarating days of their relationship , and he had been elated at their evident approval of her . |
| 9 | Two more , and it was plain that she was hungry , just as Patrick had been in the first few weeks of life . |
| 10 | The only difficulties I had was in the last 24 hours when the steering gave me problems . ’ |
| 11 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will indicate the nature and range of discussions he has had with OFTEL on the length of time customers have had to wait to have their telephones repaired ; what changes in waiting time there have been in the last seven years ; and if he will make a statement . |