Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm trying to find out what sort of emotional state your daughter has been in over the past six months . |
| 2 | ‘ No one knows what I 've been through in the last 12 months , ’ he said . |
| 3 | In rugby we 're down to the last eight … in the Pilkington Cup … which means Gloucester are two matches away from Twickenham … they 've got a game on their hands tomorrow though … away to first division leaders Orrell |
| 4 | Once we 're out of the twenty six week period it would go back to its normal rate . |
| 5 | And then you 're back to the three sixty or nought again . |
| 6 | With regard to the flats I mean , one o erm the flats have been up since the late sixties and erm now they 're gon na be coming down . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly . |
| 8 | Since I 've understood what management was about — I suppose that must have been back in the early 1950s — I 've had the philosophy that if I go into a job I must do it better than the bloke who 's been doing it before me . |
| 9 | The man had n't been out of the top four since 1980 but he did n't have the luck to win a title — in ‘ 86 he lost the crown when his helmet strap came undone . |
| 10 | Tim , who has never been out of the top two in the competition in the last six years , then went on to clinch an exciting final by a narrow margin . |
| 11 | ( Our sources say , however , that CICS AIX will be out within the next six weeks , which could shed a different light on matters . ) |
| 12 | But if you do n't want it preserved , I think it would be so nice to have in college , if only for next year 's students , and you also would be around for the next two years , I mean if you 're doing , if you 're doing a language erm , option next year , or even a language recitation erm , this would be quite nice material to use for that . |
| 13 | Although direct debits and cash dispenser machines had been around since the late 1960s , promotion campaigns made them farmore popular during the mid-1980s . |
| 14 | It 's a new one that 's only just been around for the last fifty years . |
| 15 | The drug has been around for the last 20 years , but this is the first time the research has been carried out over such a lengthy period . |
| 16 | The few managers of nursing who were around in the late 1960s , early 1970s will not wish to relive those experiences and yet unless alternative solutions are found quickly , the problem which prevailed then will soon be upon us again . |
| 17 | The FAO 's new estimate of 15.4 million hectares a year is down from the 16.9 million hectare estimate presented at last year 's Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro , but well above the 11.4 million hectare estimate of 1980 . |
| 18 | In terms of erm , return to work , er , we also er have been very good , I think , in the sense that we now offer the twenty-five per cent bonus er , after pregnancy , do n't get me wrong on that , er , what happens is , people are actually recompensed , given back the money which they 've sacrificed because they 've been away from work for six months , and they get is back over the next two years . |
| 19 | And Canderbill is out of the one fifteen at Nottingham . |
| 20 | AUSTRALIAN left-arm pace bowler Bruce Reid is out of the next two Tests against the West Indies after undergoing surgery on a shoulder injury . |
| 21 | six months was down to the two three pounds under the weight I was when I started . |
| 22 | She said well it was down to the last two she said , I had a choice between a red and green cushion or a fitness test . |
| 23 | First the figures , furniture retailing continues to be highly competitive so I am pleased to report that turnover for the twenty eight weeks was through to the twenty million five point five percent better than the same period in the previous year . |
| 24 | Marjorie Bousfield was up against the national fours championship rink and lost 17–28 , Dulcie Harbin lost 25–14 , while Pearl Wright , after drawing 9–9 at ten ends , went 22–15 . |
| 25 | That was back in the early sixties . |
| 26 | That was back in the early 1600s and things had been improving gradually ever since . |
| 27 | This was out of the 850 000 or so collisions the UA1 apparatus recorded towards the end of last year from a total of about one thousand million actual collisions . |
| 28 | No one who was around in the late 1960s can have avoided the flood of changes which swept through the dress , sexual codes , language , food styles , cinema , literature , music , and other generative aspects of the new counter-culture . |