Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh det] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Sport & Recreation is a very small part of a huge leisure industry which over the last 20 years has seen a massive increase in both the provision of Local Authority facilities and in participation levels .
2 Gloucester were very fortunate in getting a late penalty kick and in fact the very last kick of the game saw Tim Smith come up to get one point which for the last 35 minutes looked the most improbable result of all .
3 The North York Moors National Park committee has agreed to expand its Moorsbus service which for the last ten years has enabled visitors to get to the heart of the moors without congesting roads and villages with private cars .
4 The ‘ ship ’ is therefore dwarfed by the size of the ocean which is post-school education and training ; moreover it is an ocean which over the last ten or so years has been in unprecedented turmoil culminating in the hurricane represented by the 1988 Education Reform Act .
5 Both of those figures , sir , exclude any windfalls whatsoever over the next thirteen years , now if that is a justification for a new settlement , I 'm a disbeliever .
6 It was ready for the further development of Capitalism as the means of assuring the exponential increase in production which the Industrial Revolution was making possible , the phenomenal expansion which for the next forty years was to be centred on a Britain uniquely the workshop of the world and the engine of economic growth .
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