Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] for the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Janet gave up her secretarial job , and devoted herself to caring for Lisa for the next six months . |
| 2 | He jabbered about football for the first five minutes to smother her angry silence . |
| 3 | Anyway the workload gradually increased until I found I could n't continue any longer and have been off work for the last six months . |
| 4 | GARRYOWEN have pulled off a major coup with the appointment of former All Blacks captain Andy Leslie as coach for the next two seasons . |
| 5 | One high point was when I telephoned the historian , Roy Medvedev , to record on tape his message of support for the second European Nuclear Disarmament Convention , held in Berlin in 1983 . |
| 6 | Terry Baughan , the financial director for both the Virgin Group and the airline , revealed that the airline had incurred a trading loss of £514,000 for the first three weeks of operation . |
| 7 | But the terms of funding for the last two years of the programme remain uncertain . |
| 8 | Oral history can be a means of helping pupils to build up a meaningful framework of chronology for the last 80 years . |
| 9 | Tordjman expects software products to grow faster this year than engineering and systems integration , but he would like to maintain the same division of revenue for the next few years . |
| 10 | The voluntary scheme has the backing of the government , which is providing £13 million of funds for the first three years . |
| 11 | The mixed probes for the largest subunit hybridized with fragment SD , and more specifically , with the smaller subclones RT and RN' ; the mixture of probes for the second largest subunit recognized fragment SB , and fragment RK within the former one ( data not shown ) . |
| 12 | This was in excess of 10% for the first few months and was over 20% in some parts of Wales . |
| 13 | If your travel from the UK for your outward journey or from Holland for the return journey is delayed for over 12 hours ( due to strike/industrial action , weather conditions or mechanical breakdown ) from the scheduled time , then a benefit of £20 for the first 12 hours and £10 for each subsequent 12 hours up to a maximum of £60 . |
| 14 | A new budget of £1,500 for the next six months should be enough for local advertising . |
| 15 | 1991 saw total Unix systems revenue in Europe climb to $6.9bn from $6bn in 1990. 1991 's growth of 15% is two points up on 1990 's 13% — IDC predicts a mean compound annual growth rate ( CAGR ) of 14% for the next six years , by which time it believes the European market will be worth some $16.3bn . |
| 16 | But he finally slipped into Sydney and left having signed a lucrative new deal to assist Australian rugby 's new television broadcaster , Channel Ten , with their marketing of rugby for the next three years . |
| 17 | Keyworth said then that anti-missile lasers are the stuff of fantasy for the next few decades . |
| 18 | One of the most controversial proposals was the abolition of benefit for the first two days of sickness . |
| 19 | His work for deaf people began with six years in London before becoming Bishop 's Chaplain to the Deaf in the Diocese of Blackburn for the next ten . |
| 20 | ULSTER Television has reported increased pre-tax profits of £1.96m for the first six months of 1993 , up 10pc on the same period last year . |
| 21 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will give the total estimated annual operating costs of Trident for the first five years of operation . |
| 22 | As clerk to the local Parish Council I should like to point out that Nether Wyresdale Parish Council have been asking for a footpath along this stretch of highway for the last twenty years . |
| 23 | Mr Parker , who announced his resignation last week , unveiled pre-tax profits of £2.3m for the first six months of 1993 . |
| 24 | While working in films Mary set the pattern of work for the next fifty years . |
| 25 | It was a place of work , after all , thought Peter Nicholson , and it had been his place of work for the last sixteen years . |
| 26 | For Cranmer , who headed the party of Reform for the next twenty years , the task seemed hardly begun . |
| 27 | So I 'm a lady of leisure for the next six weeks ! ’ |
| 28 | Staff from his department would remain at their present headquarters near the House of Commons for the next three years . |
| 29 | He had quite enjoyed that kind of jealousy for the first few months of their marriage . |
| 30 | In the UK , statutory maternity pay is 90 per cent of earnings for the first six weeks of maternity leave and then a lower rate of £39.25 for a further 12 weeks . |