Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further difficulty arose from the departure of a large number of middle-class families from the Belfast area to neighbouring dormitory towns , a migratory pattern in line with changes in the demography of British cities generally for the last two decades or so . |
| 2 | So is anybody in immediate problems at the moment or you 're o Okay , so , I 'll , it 's your chance now to do some work then for the next twenty minutes or so . |
| 3 | Yes , I 'm sure he 's a very very happy man tonight , he 's been looking forward to this game tremendously for the last couple of weeks . |
| 4 | It would be a breach of the tacit convention on which politicians and lawyers have worked the British Constitution together for the last 200 years . |
| 5 | She had been smoking dope now for the last year , scoring whenever she had saved up enough money from her weekend job at McDonald 's . |
| 6 | Mick Redmond had finished a tour of operations and was on leave when John came on leave so the brothers were able to spend some time together for the first time for years . |
| 7 | Bay of Plenty showed the advantage of the special coaching which New Zealanders receive for such events when they romped to victory in the Melrose Sevens tournament , taking the prized trophy overseas for the third year in a row by defeating Kelso 19–12 in the final . |
| 8 | " Do n't worry , I 'll be hot-footing back tomorrow for the next instalment — that is , if you want me to . " |
| 9 | At his death he was unknown as a poet ; on 8 December 1975 , the centenary of the wreck of the Deutschland , a plaque to his memory was unveiled in poets ' corner , Westminster Abbey , honouring a Roman Catholic there for the first time since John Dryden [ q.v . ] . |
| 10 | I think it would be extremely prudent of you to keep a very low profile indeed for the next few days . ’ |
| 11 | He moved away , and I put on my strained smile again for the next patiently waiting customer . |
| 12 | You gaze at each other properly for the first time . |
| 13 | I was calling the L-shaped room home for the first time , and thinking of it as such . |
| 14 | Commander Fairley saw at once the wisdom of keeping the two children of his first marriage together for the last years of their progress to maturity . |
| 15 | And then you have to do the same thing again for the second line look |
| 16 | Russia 's debt problems were highlighted in a World Bank study released in late September which indicated that the country would need some US$20,000 million of external financial resources annually for the next few years to sustain economic reforms . |
| 17 | THE number of people who have been out of work for more than a year broke through the one million barrier today for the first time in five years . |
| 18 | You get Supplementary Benefit instead for the first six — |
| 19 | Last year also for the first time it was televised by Yorkshire Television . |