Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [det] [noun pl] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 For the past few months Police have been mounting a major operation to crackdown on joy riders … its the type of accident they 'd always feared .
2 During the next few years children are likely to be engaging in more sustained projects as part of their learning of mathematics .
3 For a great many women artists , Surrealism gave them an invaluable springboard into their own imaginations , but it did not provide an environment in which they could flourish .
4 We went with the other All Saints Juniors , and the Rector , the Rev. Edward Penson M.A. made the arrangements .
5 But within the next few weeks labourers will start digging the foundations for a plant at Gwithian , on Cornwall 's northern shore , which will produce about 500 tonnes of tin per year .
6 However , in the first few years groups did not appear to consider fundraising a priority .
7 Within a month of nationalisation , the Authority 's commercial manager had identified the more serious black spots in which tariffs for additional domestic kWh were below ¾d. — which he reckoned to be the level required to cover costs — and in the next few months prices were generally raised to this level as a ‘ first aid ’ measure , pending the development of a proper pricing policy .
8 In the next few weeks advertisements will appear for a chief executive who , if all goes to plan , will have a year to run themselves in and have a real say in building the new institution .
9 In the past few days shoppers have been paying one last visit to the store , many angered by a trend which has seen Liverpool stripped of many of its landmark shops .
10 In the past few years interferometers have displaced scanning spectrophotometers in many applications .
11 In the last few weeks loads of newt tadpoles have hatched .
12 But in the last few years feminists have begun to organise together as architects , housing workers , builders , designers etc , to question seriously assumptions around housing policy and structure ; assumptions held not only by politicians , housing officials and housing workers , but also by socialist housing activists .
13 Over the past few decades researchers have shown that chimps can create artworks ( abstract thought ) , use tools in a quite sophisticated fashion , and understand the concept of language : humans and chimps can use sign languages like Ameslan to communicate with each other to a reasonably advanced level .
14 Over the past few years galleries have been springing up in Berlin 's Fasanenstrasse and its surrounding district , making it the ideal starting point for a gallery tour .
15 Over the previous few years capitalists had been hit by the European wage explosions and a general worsening of industrial relations .
16 To play a part in the problems of geology over the next few decades geomorphologists must forget their trivial catchments and see mega forests instead of trees …
17 Over the next few months supplies of Intel 's new Pentium microprocessor will trickle on to the market .
18 All in all , however , over the next few years things in general appeared to be going well enough .
19 Over the next few years Coatings ' coil operations in will join the new joint venture .
20 Over the next few seasons debts continued to mount and in an unprecedented move Athletico again made history , becoming the first club to introduce the £1 pork pie .
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