Example sentences of "[prep] the [num ord] [adj] [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alright he was carrying an injury but surely the onus of the team should not rest on a single player — and besides what was he doing for the first 80 minutes on Saturday . |
| 2 | An Israeli trade delegation visited Beijing on Nov. 18-22 for the first official talks on establishing trade ties following a secret visit by Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Arens on Nov. 4-8 to discuss military co-operation and China 's arms sales to the Middle East . |
| 3 | In the following month the Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister , Kunihiko Saito , had visited Moscow for the first working-level negotiations on the dispute since the termination of the Soviet Union . |
| 4 | With preparations under way for the first multiparty elections on Sept. 29-30 , the ruling Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola-Workers ' Party ( MPLA-PT ) held its third special congress on May 7-12 . |
| 5 | UK Defence Research Agency 's Ten15 Architecture Neutral Distribution Format technology will also be incorporated : UI says it has been working closely with DRA for the last six months on proposals . |
| 6 | Sister was then transferred to Wythenshawe , and worked for the last 13 years on the chaplaincy team of Wythenshawe Hospital . |
| 7 | In an unbecoming shade of battleship grey undercoat it took over the Museum 's service train for the last two runs on Sunday , May 24 and again on the afternoon of the 25th . |
| 8 | The Press were openly speculating that if his rival won , then the world championship would be wide open for the last two races on the calendar . |
| 9 | Ninety-two coins spun consecutively have come down heads ninety-two consecutive times … and for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute … |
| 10 | Mari Marcel Thekaekare has been working for the last seven years on a project she and her husband started , working with tribal people in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu . |
| 11 | The agreement affects prices for the next four years on three types of circuit — national analogue , national digital and international — which will be pegged to inflation . |
| 12 | Nick Clark dips into the Popperfoto archive in ’ Snapshots of History ’ beginning tomorrow night and for the next 3 nights on Central News . |
| 13 | As we begin for the next few weeks on Monday mornings with Jenny , A day in the life , A day in the life of Nottinghamshire County Council . |
| 14 | For the next three weeks on Ideas in Action we 'll discuss some practical ways that parents and teachers can help dyslexic children . |
| 15 | During the first two weeks on the Scarsdale Medical Diet , you will be delighted and encouraged by rapid weight loss , actually seeing on the scale that pounds are dropping off day by day ( not that discouraging pound or two a week ) . |
| 16 | We are accordingly reaping , and have been reaping , the effects of monetisation of debt during the last twelve months on that sort of scale . |
| 17 | Back to card Using card , tell me how you have spent in total during the last twelve months on your collection of models , toys , cars , trains , boats etcetera . |
| 18 | Nor , after the first enthusiastic drawings on the tablecloths of the Savoy , was there any idea of designing a royal house as such . |
| 19 | At the Black Sea Summit on June 25 [ see p. 38980 ] , after the first presidential negotiations on the Dnestr issue between Moldova , Russia , Ukraine and Romania , a communiqué called for an immediate ceasefire . |
| 20 | And new hope — ‘ utopian expectations ’ according to one report — arose again following the announcements on 16 June that the long-awaited retaliation had begun with the firing of the first VI missiles on London and parts of southern England . |
| 21 | One of the first Marxist writers on the problem of the Italian south was a founder of the Communist party of Italy , Antonio Gramsci . |
| 22 | Eight ends later , the 26-year-old Edinburgh postman had clinched victory by taking each of the next two sets on a 7-2 scoreline . |
| 23 | Still , it only takes a few bars of Kondrashin ( the work 's first interpreter ) to feel what the music is really driving at — this is part of a two-disc set with the first three symphonies on Le Chant du Monde . |
| 24 | Apart from the first seven items on the list above , an LEA must keep its costs of all excepted items within a limit of 10 per cent of the GSB . |
| 25 | The lack of enemy opposition was a far cry from the next two missions on May 7 and 8 . |
| 26 | SCOTLAND 's 38 senior clubs will vote within the next six weeks on whether four divisions of ten clubs each is the best way forward for the good of the game . |
| 27 | Always expect and be ready for a launch failure in the first 500 feet on every launch . |
| 28 | Faldo powered into the lead in the race for the £366,000 top prize with a series of rapier thrusts producing three birdies in the first six holes on the tough Tryall course skirting the Caribbean . |
| 29 | He also played a prominent part in the first international meetings on wavelength allocation and in the preparations for empire broadcasting . |
| 30 | In 1941 , the French Police cooperated in the first mass internments on French soil . |