Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It endorsed British industry 's achievements under the policies that we have been pursuing for the past 12 years , urged us to continue and build upon them in future and condemned utterly the sort of policies still advocated by the Labour party , which is stuck in a mind-set of the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 2 | Up to one million purchases are estimated to have been delayed during the last three years because of the sluggish market . |
| 3 | In the summary table the success rates are given to the nearest five per cent . |
| 4 | The couple will begin their married life in Cyprus , where Paul , whose home is in Liverpool , has been posted for the next 18 months . |
| 5 | The biodiversity convention signed at the summit has been ratified by the required 30 countries and is due to come into force at the end of this year . |
| 6 | Amendments to the Montreal Protocol on protecting the ozone layer that were agreed in London in 1990 have finally been ratified by the required 20 countries and will come into force in August . |
| 7 | At a time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely in that time with such grace and preconception-shattering nerve . |
| 8 | AT A time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely with such grace . |
| 9 | The unchanging inevitabilities , bereavement and personal death , are recognized in the final two chapters . |
| 10 | Only once in the last ten years , in 1983 , have we been placed in the first three . |
| 11 | They have n't noticed the so-called economic boom Chile 's been enjoying for the last twenty years . |
| 12 | Dictating condolences to the mother of a murdered husband whom you 've been cuckolding for the last three years would take more than his limited social vocabulary . |
| 13 | Accommodation has been arranged at the prestigious 5 crown |
| 14 | One of these , PC-Hornet , which has been developed over the past 10 years , will be shown for the first time by McDonnell Douglas . |
| 15 | The engine has been developed over the past four years by engineers and designers at Vauxhall 's parent plant , General Motors . |
| 16 | In a way , the show marks the next step on from the post-industrial carnivals that have been developed over the past ten years . |
| 17 | Our joint ventures with LVMH continue to progress well thanks to strong personal and commercial relationships which have been developed over the last five years . |
| 18 | HELP has been developed over the last five years and is available to Henley programme members throughout the world . |
| 19 | The model has been developed in the late 1970s by a new wave of American elite theorists ( Krasner , 1978 ; Skocpol , 1979 ; Nordlinger , 1981 ) influenced by both the political realism of classical elite theory and by the neo-Marxist focus upon the relative autonomy of the capitalist state ( pp. 243 — 6 ) . |
| 20 | The canal boatmen who came to live in Fisher Row upon the opening of the Oxford Canal in 1790 were a colourful group with distinctive dress , customs and style of boat decoration which had been developed in the previous two decades upon the canals of the Midlands . |
| 21 | Although various endoscopic treatments have been developed in the past 10 years , heat probe thermocoagulation and multipolar electrocoagulation are the two most promising techniques for treating bleeding peptic ulcers . |
| 22 | With the increasing array of modern pharmaceuticals which have been developed in the last forty years or so , the concept of treatment with opposites has once more dwarfed the concept of treatment with similars which has never been accepted by the medical establishment . |
| 23 | The Czechs were , like the Muscovites before them , primarily linguists , and they did not significantly alter the basic groundwork of Formalist literary theory as it had been developed by the late 1920s . |
| 24 | The results for specific questions are those actually obtained and have not been given to the nearest five per cent . |
| 25 | I 've been farming for the last 70 years and never seen anything like it . ’ |
| 26 | You 've all got friends and relations in er other jobs and they 've all been struggling for the last two or three years have n't they ? |
| 27 | Whether or not further concealed households are formed over the next fifteen years , seems to me to be an irrelevance . |
| 28 | Riots were increasing over the capital , and communications had been broken with the other two major cities of Nicaea . |
| 29 | 4 Check that no food or drink has been consumed in the preceding 6 and hours respectively . |
| 30 | However , of the first 100 notified to the Commission ( but such notification is haphazard , and may not therefore be representative ) as having been formed in the first 14 months after the EEIG Regulation came into effect on 1 July 1989 , a rough pattern emerges . |