Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you 've got to make a mental leap , because I mean for the last five years , things have been pretty horrible , since eighty seven really , I mean we 've only had the pick up in the last year . |
| 2 | As father said at the beginning of gruelling sessions in the vacs , the techniques I needed for the next few years — apart from those concerned with sport — dealt not so much with manual skills but with communication , both written and oral . |
| 3 | At least , this is how Mary , Freda and I felt for the first few weeks . |
| 4 | My hands were cold , gloved as they were , and though I wore a jersey , jacket and jeans , I shivered for the first ten minutes . |
| 5 | I think these proposals not only are a way forward but also in light of what is actually happening in the area of Highfields with er the high numbers of unemployment , with the high rate of people underachieving in education I think for the last two and a half years there has been no clear guidelines or structure that has systematically brought about any results in the two centres to move forward where people have lost out by this issue being bureaucratic and a political football that 's being kicked about and I think it 's about time where we now have cross party consensus that we move positively forward and work towards these proposals . |
| 6 | Professor Pearn and I had for the last ten years been interchangeably secretary and editor of the Burma Research Society , and when we discovered that the Society 's bank had been able to get our balance safely into India before the break-up , we conceived the plan of a series of Burma Pamphlets , describing various aspects of the national life . |
| 7 | I have for the last two years been closely involved with an EEC forecasting study — The Forecasting and Assessment in Science and Technology ( FAST ) Biosociety subprogramme . |
| 8 | I have for the last ten years been writing software using Clipper database and would like to improve the front end on some of the software . |
| 9 | But I want you to understand that , in making up my mind , I did not forget the country or the Commonwealth which , as Prince of Wales , I have for the last 23 years tried to serve . |
| 10 | The causes of this are not entirely clear , but were probably a combination of the increasing costs of warfare ( as the empire came under severe pressure from the barbarians across the Rhine and Danube , and from the Persians in the east ) and of the exhaustion of the Roman mines in Spain , which seem for the first two centuries AD to have provided an important contribution to the difference between Rome 's income ( taxes ) and expenditure ( especially on war ) . |
| 11 | This venture laid the foundations for the Hull Arctic whaling trade , which prospered for the next sixty years . |
| 12 | That level of investment , currently running at £1 billion a year , will be sustained by the Government over the public expenditure planning period which runs for the next three years and , I am quite confident , will run over the next 10 years . |
| 13 | This can be reduced a little if she goes in with all she needs for the first few days : a clean dressing-gown , slippers , a change of night clothes and bedjacket and all the toilet articles and other small items she is likely to want . |
| 14 | Would it be worth actually having a , having a sort of a planning meeting , say you know for the first half hour of one of these meetings , the next one say that we have , you know , a wall planner , you know , a chart and |
| 15 | The barely acknowledged hope caused her heart to beat faster as she reached for the first round iron latch . |
| 16 | What you do for the first two years is you learn all the theory of being a doctor and you go and you have to between eight of you , learn all about a body you have one body between of you and you learn all about all the muscles and the nerves |
| 17 | She suddenly wanted to throw something at him , anything , needing to hurt him as she was hurting , but could n't actually reach his ambitious heart , so she aimed for the next best thing : his self-respect . |
| 18 | She was living with her boyfriend as she had for the last eight years and the hospital team were quite happy to talk to him about the proposed care plan for her . |
| 19 | When she retired from the RCM in 1948 she went on to run the Violet Melchet Infant Welfare Centre near Sloane Square , a job she held for the next twenty years . |
| 20 | Here we lived for the next fifteen years , with the eighteenth-century kirk across the road , and from my study window at the front a clear thirty-mile view across the Tweed valley to the distant Cheviots . |
| 21 | Early in 1989 his book , A Brief History of Time , toppled my autobiography from No 1 to No 2 on the best-seller list , which positions we retained for the next 13 weeks . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | One was quite hot and spicy but I 'd forgotten what we had for the first two the two that they brought out . |
| 24 | Fred , of Fence Houses , County Durham , said : ‘ We queued for the last three weeks and left empty handed . |
| 25 | One of the contexts in which we are exercising ministry is that we have for the last fifty years well I have n't personally ! |
| 26 | We will continue to protect its value against price rises , as we have for the last 13 years . |
| 27 | We have tried to sum up the fragments of information which we have for the last three centuries in our second chapter , ‘ Glimpses of a Lost History ’ . |
| 28 | Now Paul this is what I 've found out since you see , Paul erm said to them , Why suddenly this ? and he says , Oh we 've actually had them printed for the last two years but we 've never had the time to give them out . |
| 29 | How would they like a stranger to be in control of the way they look for the next six months ? ’ |
| 30 | And when they died and the fleas had finished feasting on their blood , which was by then putrid and crawling with the bacilli , the fleas looked round for another host , and if they could not find another rat , or any small hairy creature to their liking , they settled for the next best thing , which was usually human . |