Example sentences of "[noun] for the [num ord] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was a fantastic feeling to be out on that field for the last 10 or 15 minutes , ’ he recalled . |
| 2 | He declined to comment on a looming trade war between the US and the European Community , stressing that such problems had to be dealt with by Bush , who Clinton insists is the US 's only president for the next two and a half months . |
| 3 | Not a chance of course — I was stuck there in my seat for the next five or six hours . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's going to be a key figure at this club for the next three or four years , ’ said the Newcastle boss . |
| 5 | Merit is defined by the hierarchy of metals from which they are struck : gold for the winner , silver for the second best and bronze for the third ( fig. 43 ) . |
| 6 | Thompson , in an interview on BBC Television 's Sportsnight programme , says he is neither pessimistic nor optimistic about his prospects for the Games but is convinced he can still be an athletics force for the next four or five years . |
| 7 | It seems to differ little if at all from the standard idea of the mainstream in force for the last twenty or thirty years . |
| 8 | This can be incorporated into the merger agreement , with effect for the first two or three years after the merger . |
| 9 | That argument has been very forceful in some countries for the last three or four decades at least . |
| 10 | She stayed with the Cohens for the first seven or eight years of Leonard 's life . ) |
| 11 | Amdahl Corp , Sunnyvale has launched a consulting service and data storage feature to facilitate the migration of customers to Escon Architecture : the company accompanies the new service with a new Serial Channel Feature for next quarter for use with its 6100 Storage Processor , which attaches to parallel channel adaptors on the 6100 and enable it to support serial Escon channel connections ; a 6100 with the feature will support up to 32 Escon serial channels or a mixture of serial and parallel channels ; native serial channels cost $62,560 for the first four and $32,280 for each additional pair ; the Serial Channel Feature start at $21,000 . |
| 12 | The classroom practice will be taken care of in a series of group observation and teaching visits and will be supplemented by their school attachments for the last four or five weeks of the term . |
| 13 | Unlike baby goslings which lock on to the first moving object in sight , the newborn baby will be relatively undiscriminating about who tends his needs for the first three or four months of life . |
| 14 | In the UK , SAS has been trying to build a relationship with ICL plc for the last three or four years — with little success . |
| 15 | We bought it , along with 60 acres , and opened a farm shop for the first three or four years , to sell our surplus . |
| 16 | Data used will be in the form of statistics for the last five or ten years , the examination of which should assist bankers assessing country risk . |
| 17 | Examples of this sort are in direct contrast to what has been , in effect , the subconscious attitude of most geologists for the last hundred or more years . |
| 18 | With three years of system building and integration under its belt , the company intends to focus on software distribution and development for the next two or three years . |
| 19 | The sailors face split into a grin for the first tame when Yanto handed him four pound notes . |
| 20 | The General Secretary mentions some of them in his Report , and I do not apologize for mentioning it again , they 're fighting back at Timex , they 're fighting back at Burnsall , in my own region at Crawley we 've twenty members who 've been on strike for the last sixteen and a half weeks . |
| 21 | Each night for the next two or three weeks , the army makes another long march through the forest until the grubs , which have been feeding voraciously , are fully grown and begin to turn into pupae . |
| 22 | But it might help your learners if they used some of your techniques for the first five or ten minutes of viewing . |
| 23 | He said there had been an average of five cases in Darlington every week for the last two or three months . |
| 24 | That 's what I 've been doing six days a week for the last four or five weeks . |
| 25 | S A Wahid , the owner for the last four and a half years , has asked publishers to cancel all dues and catalogues . |
| 26 | I mean I 've never needed a new licence for the last three and a half years but Nicholas erm prior to this in the countdown to me appearing for my drink drive which is in a matter of about ten weeks I believe in the countdown to that , Nick said on several o two occasions anyway while other members of staff were present , Well this is a way of getting rid of him without having to pay him redundancy money . |
| 27 | Yeah , I know , she 's had a hell of a well for the last two or three years . |
| 28 | The development of income raising schemes and projects will significantly increase the pressure of work on the Finance Section , even when linked directly to the Bank 's own Royline and while it is envisaged that the existing system should be able to meet requirements for the next four or five when replacement will be under consideration , additional staff will probably be required . |
| 29 | The development of income raising schemes and projects will significantly increase the pressure of work on the Finance Section , even when linked directly to the Bank 's own Royline and while it is envisaged that the existing system should be able to meet requirements for the next four or five years when replacement will be under consideration , additional staff will probably be required . |
| 30 | He could not see himself chained to these realities for the next 40 or 50 years . |