Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num ord] few years the " 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 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 . |
| 8 | During the next few years the plague was always with us . |
| 9 | During the last few years the Printing Division has been able to offer photosetting via its P.E . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In the last few years the Conservative government has instituted a programme called ‘ Next Steps ’ . |
| 16 | In the last few years the volume of literature concerned with gender and mathematics has grown apace , both at home and abroad . |
| 17 | I am encouraged that in the last few years the number of cyclists I see commuting to and in Edinburgh has increased . |
| 18 | Over the last few years the house has changed hands many times . |
| 19 | Over the last few years the landscape had changed . |
| 20 | Over the last few years the number of public television groups within the PBAA has grown steadily , and extensive technical expertise has been developed as more than twenty test broadcasts across Australia have taken place . |
| 21 | Over the last few years the Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) has been active in consulting with British industry and encouraging it to be competitive in the European market . |
| 22 | Over the last few years the t Tory government has reduced the amount of wages inspectors . |
| 23 | Over the last few years the members allowances have been reduced , er , er have been underspent quite considerably on the amount that 's been allowed . |
| 24 | Over the next few years the book saw suggestions for all manner of things — for packet tobaccos to be sold at shop prices , for a device to be put on the smoking room door to stop persistent slamming and a complaint that the bushes on the 5th made the hole a flukey . |
| 25 | Over the next few years the Assistant Librarian , Miss Liddell , probably got fed up with the sight of me as I used to get through several books each week and must have read most of the stock . |
| 26 | The basis for that is that over the next few years the South Africans will be on an upward learning curve after being without international competition for so long . |
| 27 | Over the next few years the numbers of separatists grew . |
| 28 | Over the next few years the planning of urban motorways had considerable impact on the metropolitan areas of the West Midlands , Greater Manchester , Merseyside and Greater Glasgow , and the M4 , snaking across West London , was the longest road viaduct in Europe . |
| 29 | It seems certain that over the next few years the returns for all the work done did not satisfy Taylor , who wrote again in 1840 to the acting agent Moser , asking for a reduction of the Royalties to one-fifteenth . |