Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num ord] [det] years [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first few years the Sunday School met in a private house , possibly that of a Mr Thomas Leathem . |
| 2 | For the first few years the maximum carriage length remained at 42ft . |
| 3 | For the first few years the work was concerned with the Old Red Sandstone along the southern margin of the Highlands but soon men were stationed at various points around the Grampians , including the Moray Firth area , and were advancing towards the higher ground . |
| 4 | For the first few years the remands were unopposed , since it would plainly have been inappropriate to proceed against the applicant whilst the Carrian prosecution was still afoot . |
| 5 | The CNAA could not establish boards for every subject component of degrees in education , and in the event for the first few years the Committee for Education , using a range of specialist panels in support , itself carried out the validation work . |
| 6 | For the last few years the sum has been £1 0 . |
| 7 | For the last several years the transformation has been led by one particular member of that leadership , who was designated the ‘ project manager ’ of the entire change effort . |
| 8 | For the next few years the horde ravaged at will through the mountains , desecrating shrines , despoiling tombs , and waylaying travellers , but Grom was unable to take any of the Dwarf holds or bring them to battle . |
| 9 | The first teashop opened in 1894 in Piccadilly , and during the next few years a chain of teashops was opened in London . |
| 10 | During the next few years the plague was always with us . |
| 11 | During the last few years the Printing Division has been able to offer photosetting via its P.E . |
| 12 | During the last few years the notion of ‘ citizenship ’ has been increasingly and widely discussed amongst different constituencies addressing different aspects of the topic , with somewhat confusing consequences . |
| 13 | During the last few years the EMS has become a central plank of EC policy , and Economic and MOnetary Union has become the linchpin of the project for European Union constitutionalized in the Treaty on European Union . |
| 14 | During the last few years an increasing number of schools have adopted agreed policies for handwriting . |
| 15 | No one could foresee that over the course of the next few years the steel industry would be successfully reorganized and taken into the private sector . |
| 16 | Within the last few years a small piece of wall has been restored and recapped to preserve the last few remains . |
| 17 | In the next few years no one would try to temper this vision or even to relate it to reality . |
| 18 | The most promising compounds were selected and studied in many laboratories , and in the next few years a substantial number of monoamine oxidase inhibitors went into clinical trials , and some into widespread clinical use . |
| 19 | So far the birds in this country are being reared solely for sale as breeding pairs , but it 's hoped in the next few years the stock will be large enough to sell the birds for their meat . |
| 20 | In the last few years a powerful controversy has arisen over whether the dinosaurs as a whole were cold-blooded , like all living reptiles ( and there is no doubt that dinosaurs were reptiles ) , or warm-blooded , resembling mammals in this respect . |
| 21 | In the last few years a more objective method , based on the properties of the material erupted has been devised . |
| 22 | Both men are Christians , and in the last few years a number of other Christian writers have followed in their footsteps ( Hunter 1983 ; Guinness 1983 ; Williamson , Parotta et al 1983 ; Kolakowski 1986 ) . |
| 23 | It seems to me that we 're stronger fighting that together than apart and in the last few years a growing number of successful campaigns have strengthened this belief . |
| 24 | In the last few years the courts have contrived in effect to extend the substance of a right of occupation to a mistress who has lived on an originally permanent basis with a man , but who has now lost her partner either through death or as a result of some form of desertion . |
| 25 | In the last few years the Conservative government has instituted a programme called ‘ Next Steps ’ . |
| 26 | In the last few years the volume of literature concerned with gender and mathematics has grown apace , both at home and abroad . |
| 27 | I am encouraged that in the last few years the number of cyclists I see commuting to and in Edinburgh has increased . |
| 28 | Over the last few years a breed of bouncer has evolved , a Rottweiler in a bow-tie , who likes doing serious harm to lippy young men . |
| 29 | However , it is that means that over the last few years every time we have actually debated about budget we recognised that the force had unwillingly and against the judgement of the majority of this council , not necessarily er bounded by political affiliation , we have to be getting down further and further towards the completely inaccurate expanded spending assessment that is assessed as necessary for the needs of this city by the department of the environment . |
| 30 | Over the last few years the house has changed hands many times . |