Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only during the last 100 years has the active cultivation of aquatic plants for decoration been practised , and then widely only during the last 25 years . |
| 2 | Erm , I mean , all in all they did , they did get the final result , the scene came together right from the last eleven minutes to achieve the result , but it was just there was a lot of confusion at the beginning of the start . |
| 3 | It was perhaps only in the last ten years that Broadstairs had fully come to realise what treasure trove lay buried in its midst , and plaques began enthusiastically to sprout everywhere . |
| 4 | If he produced a book about once every five years , he could pretend to have been working on it all that time , even it he had cobbled it together only in the last two or three months . |
| 5 | Did the squalid detail of the atrocities of The Fox which the press featured so fully have no effect on the variety of Foxes spawned and featured so prominently over the next few months in the pages of these newspapers ? |
| 6 | After missing him so desperately over the last six weeks it was more than she had ever dreamed of to find herself suddenly close to him again , and maybe by the time they reached their destination he would have given her some clue about the way he wanted things to be . |
| 7 | Only once in the last ten years , in 1983 , have we been placed in the first three . |
| 8 | If it falls much further over the next few days , Mr Major will have no choice but to raise interest rates . |
| 9 | Her salary has been growing to the point where she feels she can afford to buy a home and it promises to climb much further over the next few years . |
| 10 | The main problem in windsurfing is that it has developed so rapidly in the last ten years that boards only a few years old are very out of date and lack the features mentioned earlier . |
| 11 | Interest in golf has grown so rapidly in the last ten years that it has reached out beyond its traditional confines and become glamorous . |
| 12 | While the weight of the waste we all throw away has been going down slightly over the last twenty years , ( because things like glass , plastic bottles and cans have become thinner ) , the volume of waste has been rising . |
| 13 | It 's only really in the last two general elections that we have begun to bring fun and excitement into campaigns , to raise people 's enthusiasm to the point where they can let down their reserve a little bit . |
| 14 | His lordship had called , indeed bellowed , so often over the last six months that George had come to expect little else . |
| 15 | Larger , ‘ executive ’ cars are poorer value to buy new , because their value drops so sharply in the first few years . |
| 16 | So even in the first exploratory or formative phase , when human values were largely suppressed , the Cubism of Picasso and Braque was in some ways an expression of the private life and experience of the painter . |
| 17 | In fact , the present strength in depth of the England set-up and the fine organisation nationally bodes extremely well for the next few seasons . |
| 18 | Those sectors have continued to invest and that has certainly served us extremely well over the last few years when things have been tight . |
| 19 | Having played so well for the first two rounds and then the first three holes of the third , by which time he was tieing for the lead with Parry at 10 under par , Woosnam came to grief immediately after the Saturday storm . |
| 20 | They seemed to be settling in well in the first two days . |
| 21 | So much happened so fast in the next few days . |
| 22 | We all worked extremely hard in the next few days , cleaning all the rooms and preparing the food . |
| 23 | So , as far as general principles go , I think the issue between animals and the rest of the environment has become much easier in the last twenty years , and thank goodness for that . |
| 24 | There has been so much drama , not only over the first two days , when Henri Leconte had made his fairy tale return to Davis Cup play with his stunning defeat of Sampras in the second singles and then his inspirational contribution to France 's doubles success as he and Forget maintained an 8–0 unbeaten record together in the competition , that it was both right and proper that there should have been more to come . |
| 25 | Not long after the last regional ITV company went on air , the focus of interest shifted back to the BBC . |
| 26 | In no sense did it correspond to the experience of student activism that so many of my generation were to go through elsewhere over the next few years . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm going to be away increasingly in the next few years . |
| 28 | Most of the people , just over two thirds , who spent all the last year of their life in a residential or nursing home were 85 or more , and it is this age group which is predicted to increase most rapidly in the next twenty years ( Central Statistical Office ( CSO ) , 1989 ) so it is likely that increasing numbers will spend the last year of their lives in such homes . |
| 29 | TWO Britons set off yesterday on the first trans-atlantic hot-air balloon race . |
| 30 | The way in which things are made has changed slowly through the millennia and much more rapidly during the last two centuries . |