Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , what we have tried to do at , there are You 've probably seen or heard in the last five or six years , the influence of Japanese technology . |
| 2 | The vendor will be required to warrant that no industrial action has been taken or threatened in the last few years . |
| 3 | The cubs , all between three and seven weeks old , have been found orphaned or abandoned over the last few weeks . |
| 4 | … ’ Schedule 3 specifies all documents , correspondence and memoranda relating to any accounts or assets , owned or controlled by the first 16 defendants , and to their dealings with the assets of the defendants or the sums described in Schedule 1 . |
| 5 | Latterly flying as the flagship of Australian TV comedian Norman Gunston , the aircraft had been a familiar sight at Bankstown and , although grounded for the last ten years , had remained substantially complete . |
| 6 | Although , at 12% , the proportion of Catholics employed is still out of step with the Northern Ireland population , Short 's points out that it has more than doubled over the last 10 years , while the proportion of Catholic apprentices taken on has trebled to 20% . |
| 7 | The number of babies born to single women over 40 has more than doubled over the last 10 years with the North West top of the older mums ' baby league table . |
| 8 | The number of babies born to single women over 40 has more than doubled over the last 10 years , with the North West top of the older mums ' baby league table . |
| 9 | The number of crimes which result in charges before a court has more than doubled in the last 10 years . |
| 10 | Cases of malignant melanoma have more than doubled in the last 10 years in countries with a fair-skinned population . |
| 11 | The number of Darlington firms going bust has more than doubled in the last two years . ’ |
| 12 | THE use of cheques and payment cards has more than doubled in the last 13 years . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , house prices and rents were reported to have more than doubled in the last 12 months . |
| 14 | O D A funding of British N G O activities has more than doubled in the last three years . |
| 15 | They were aged 75 years and were seen and treated within the first 4 hours of the onset of symptoms . |
| 16 | Grades 2 and 3 indicate patency of the infarct related vessel and were found mostly in these 50 patients seen and treated within the first 4 hours after the onset of symptoms who received the 100 mg rt-PA . |
| 17 | Discovered and excavated in the last sixty years , they have often been described . |
| 18 | Defending her life and being jolted and shaken over the last few days had left her exhausted . |
| 19 | It is in this area that our communications facilities will require to be strengthened and developed within the next five years . |
| 20 | Utilitarianism has been both vigorously defended and attacked in the last few decades . |
| 21 | Using a rate of discount of 10% per annum ( 0.027% per day ) implies that the expected duration of a job is about 1.3 years if accepted in the first three months of the unemployment spell and three years if accepted later ( see footnote 3 ) . |
| 22 | IT is a great privilege and pleasure for me to honour my old friend and colleague John Gillam , with whom I have worked and argued over the last thirty years . |
| 23 | We 've noticed that the numbers of young homeless people who are coming to see us have risen and risen over the last few months and few years . |
| 24 | FOUR Guatemalan police officers were found guilty on 28 April , 1992 of the murder of thirteen-year-old street child Nahaman Carmona Lopez and sentenced by the Fifth Criminal Sentencing Court of the First Instance to imprisonment terms of between 12 and 18 years . |
| 25 | I have half a mind to defy their demands of space and economy , and to sleep on until awakened by the next pale arrival herself , expectant to abort and puzzled at my slumbering presence . |
| 26 | A further consignment of goods was ordered and supplied against the second stolen cheque , Mr. Gilberd having agreed to the transaction without further inquiry . |
| 27 | CONFERENCE delegates yesterday swept aside a warning from the party leadership and called for the next Labour government to take back into public ownership immediately land sold off by privatised water companies . |
| 28 | ‘ I certainly felt badly in need of a rest , having trained and played for the last two to three years virtually without a break . |
| 29 | In what follows I hope to lay a finger on some of that discography 's oddities , and suggest ways in which it might be enriched and enlarged during the next 70 years . |
| 30 | First discovered in 1695 , the pavement has been repeatedly buried and re-exposed over the last three centuries . |