Example sentences of "[noun] has [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interview he sez ICI has for the last two decades looked at ways of helping the environment . |
| 2 | DG has over the last three to four years put a good deal of energy into reducing that cost base , but now , even with a quarterly breakeven level reduced to $270m from $350m , the company is struggling to make ends meet . |
| 3 | Competitively , snooker has until the last few years been confined to Britain and its old Commonwealth , but there have always been a few tables in the Far East , catering for the needs of expats . |
| 4 | Matthey Electronics Burslem has for the third successive year won the prestigious RoSPA Gold Award for Occupational Safety . |
| 5 | Pete Youngman from Pest Control Chester has during the last three years generated over £100,000 worth of business purely through submitting D5 leads . |
| 6 | If the debtor has within the last five years been bankrupt , made a composition with his creditors , been subject to a county court administration order or entered into a voluntary arrangement , particulars must be given including the name and address of the supervisor ( r6.39(2) ) . |
| 7 | Fifteenth- and sixteenth-century maiolica has in the last few years returned to popularity ( the recent exhibition of the maiolica collections of the Metropolitan Museum was regularly crowded , to the amazement of Met officials ) , though most of its present day collectors are Italian . |
| 8 | When I move on to three eight one , three eight two there 's a lot of things been said about these benefits this morning which does n't leave much left for me but looking at the situation of the way this Tory government has in the last thirteen years , certainly since nineteen eighty two crucified the benefits paid genuinely to people is in itself a crime upon society and it reminds me of the the words of the song it 's the rich that get the gravy and it 's the poor that get the blame and nothing , but nothing has changed since those words were written many many years ago . |