Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] for the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other talking point is the absence of Jonathan Webb who was in line , before Lansdowne Road , to do the midweek goal-kicking job which Bob Hiller did so invaluably for the triumphant 1971 Lions . |
| 2 | Then Lady Walters and Miss Rosamond Wynn-Pope who is the indefatigable honorary organiser , and has run this ball so efficiently for the past fifteen years , drew the winning tickets for the raffle . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We provide a service not only for the six thousand odd people that are on the campus |
| 5 | Many have been homeless , not just for the past six months but for several years and they have been pushed from pillar to post within that area . |
| 6 | I mean they 're probably booked up now for the next three or four years anyway |
| 7 | ‘ It has been very quiet up here for the last two years , but suddenly we have had a surge , ’ says a Vardy spokesman . |
| 8 | It should be emphasised , however , that the crude rate is probably an underestmate of the true proportion of recurrent ulcers , because it assumes that patients who were withdrawn ( and therefore not followed up endoscopically for the entire 12 months ) did not develop an ulcer relapse . |
| 9 | I think if Shrewsbury can hold on now for the next five or six or seven minutes they could be alright . |
| 10 | The Gould machine was set like clockwork to continue ticking as methodically for the next two years as it had for the last eight . |
| 11 | ‘ I always , ’ he explains , ‘ had the feeling that I was taking the club back straight for the first two feet of the backswing but now I am taking it slightly inside . |
| 12 | He has also been out fairly regularly for the past 2 or 3 seasons . |
| 13 | We fished Derwent fairly frequently for the following two years , and in time , found pleasure in doing so . |
| 14 | it 's been going around and around here for the last four days er I bet it 's been coming round the block up this street about eight to ten times a day , I du n no what 's it doing , the up here |
| 15 | The selling franchise arrangement has operated quite successfully for the past eight years , and Argent Distributors have grown at a steady pace during this period , as can be seen from the sales turnover figures . |
| 16 | The reason being that probably for the last 50 years the sewers have been provided free : they have outlived any associated loans and so no charge has been made to the revenue accounts . |
| 17 | Once I know how fast my ‘ feeder is emptying , or have made it empty at the pace I require , I cast very frequently for the first twenty minutes or so — as fast as the emptying of the ‘ feeder will allow — and then slow down only just enough to keep a steady trickle of feed through the swim . |