Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Self-doubt probably still lurks somewhere so I write down very quickly all the things which went wrong and get them out of the way by incorporating my ideas on them into my plans for the next investigative session right away . |
| 2 | The fact is , I feel as if ten years worry has been taken off my shoulders in the last ten minutes , and I 'm a little light-headed about it . ’ |
| 3 | Hours went by as I dragged my legs over the next few miles . |
| 4 | ‘ One of my problems over the last few years has been that I 'm amazingly optimistic — really stupid in fact ! |
| 5 | I made a point of playing all my players in the first two days . |
| 6 | Liverpool , Merseyside computer games company Psygnosis Ltd , which has quadrupled its exports in the last three years — and has taken Japan by storm , was another winner as was Ipswich , Suffolk-based BT & D Technologies Ltd , the joint optoelectronic manufacturing venture between British Telecommunications Plc , E I du Pont de Nemours & Co Inc of Wilmington , Delaware . |
| 7 | Hemel Hempstead , Hertfordshire-based Uniplex developer Redwood International Ltd , which reckons to have trebled its exports in the last three years to become the leading Unix-based office automation system supplier , won due recognition . |
| 8 | I would have preferred to see its replacement with a fixed housing allowance of limited term , and possibly on a more generous scale , for first time buyers only and those who have bought their houses in the last few years ; that should be coupled with the extension of housing benefit , which is limited to the rented sector , to low income home owners who have difficulty in meeting their mortgage payments . |
| 9 | I would have preferred to see its replacement with a fixed housing allowance of limited term , and possibly on a more generous scale , for first time buyers only and those who have bought their houses in the last few years ; that should be coupled with the extension of housing benefit , which is limited to the rented sector , to low-income home owners who have difficulty in meeting their mortgage payments . |
| 10 | A guaranteed investment of over £14 million in their homes over the next 10 years . |
| 11 | The £26m advance will be deducted from their royalties over the next 12 years . |
| 12 | The sum of all their labours over the last gruelling months . |
| 13 | ROBERT NORSTER , the Welsh team manager , and national coach Alan Davies have been invited by the Welsh Rugby Union to continue in their roles through the next three Five Nations campaigns and up to and including the 1995 World Cup . |
| 14 | THE CUP success of Middlesbrough Football Club has forced the nearby Cleveland Park greyhound stadium to switch its racenights over the next three weeks . |
| 15 | Analysts believe that the central bank , which cut interest rates by 1 percentage point last week in an attempt to stem the rise of the escudo , may be prepared to remove its barriers over the next few weeks if rate cuts staunch the flow of hot money into Lisbon . |
| 16 | The motley band stared in awe at the figure who would be in charge of their lives for the next three months . |
| 17 | As it was , some 50,000 soldiers were to lose their lives during the next few months in fruitless attacks on Chunuk Bair . |
| 18 | The delegates exchanged views on their experiences of the first six months of the pilot and considered the problems of offering general SVQs in a remote area , school-college partnerships , and the additional assessment , and produced a checklist of advice for new piloting centres ( see opposite ) . |
| 19 | ‘ They 've been encouraging local authorities to tighten their belts for the last 14 years , ’ he protests . |
| 20 | Steffi Graf sailed through until Sanchez-Vicario whipped the rug from under her feet in the last four . |
| 21 | The efforts of African leaders to build a new political system within their countries in the last twenty-five years have not for the most part been successful . |
| 22 | La Plata , the administrative centre of Buenos Aires province , had undergone economic vicissitudes at the end of the century , but with the upturn in its fortunes in the next few years it acquired a station of striking originality , an overall shed flanked by a staggeringly ornate pentagonal building covered in statuary and surmounted by a dome . |
| 23 | ‘ We are also concerned that the North Down and Ards unit has lost half its beds in the last 10 years and recent board proposals are likely to mean another hundred closures . |
| 24 | In approximately one hour she would be getting her chops round the first succulent mouthful of Chicken Thallium . |
| 25 | Tucson , Arizona-based Artisoft Inc warns that it expects its results for the third quarter to March 31 to be at break-even or slightly below — it expects to increase reserves and allowances , take one-time charges , and accelerate accruals by a pre-tax total of $1.5m to $2m , and it expects third quarter revenues to be below year-ago revenues of $20.3m ; it blames a shift in the sales mix for the revenue shortfall — ‘ Given the current trend toward the LANtastic software only option , the company is cautious in its expectations over the next several quarters for recovery in revenues and earnings to the levels achieved in the first and second quarter of the fiscal year , ’ the company said — it also offers it with adaptors . |
| 26 | More disasters followed , when it was found that the track had been laid slightly out-of-gauge , and all of the new cars 27–41 broke their axles in the first two weeks . |
| 27 | An Academic Development Officer was appointed and an Academic Development Committee set up , and in 1971 the Polytechnic was approved by the CNAA as a centre for its awards for the next five years . |
| 28 | Durham St Studio Open Days HOPEFUL musicians have a wealth of advice at their fingertips over the next few days . |
| 29 | Either through this , or through their exercise of coercive powers , the great landed nobility were able to minimize damage to their incomes in the first twenty years or so after the first onset of the plague . |
| 30 | Because i it is assumed management is learned by picking up the bad habits of your predecessor and their predecessors for the last five hundred years . |