Example sentences of "[unc] [noun pl] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most important tasks for WACC 's Central Committee this year is to authorise proposals for a new study and action programme which would guide all WACC 's activities over the next four years and prepare the organisation for its second world congress in 1995 . |
| 2 | It has been important to review the establishment of a binary system and some of its implications , as although the CNAA was created in 1964 , it was the binary policy and its implementation that set the seal on the CNAA 's operations for the next two decades . |
| 3 | As for follow-through , & name will continue to run a small office at the corporation to monitor implementation of the commission 's proposals over the next two years . |
| 4 | Politicians described the panel 's proposals for the first major reform of the 35-year-old Fifth Republic 's constitution as modest . |
| 5 | YORK City goalkeeper Chris Marples and midfield Shaun Reid , two of the club 's mainstays in the last two seasons , are likely to have played their last games for the club . |
| 6 | Zvi could n't remember how long it was since he had last found it necessary to advertise , but with Wine telling the Cork Examiner 's readers for the last three weeks that ‘ owing to the great increase of my practice ’ he was moving to larger premises Zvi felt he had no alternative . |
| 7 | Fairbrother 's performances in the first two Tests were encouraging , but not enough to quieten the Gower camp . |
| 8 | It is not clear if the Government 's tactics over the last few days are typical of the muddle that has beset it in recent months or if it is deliberately designed to throw its opponents into confusion . |
| 9 | It was quite a problem to cut short her client 's long-winded story of the cat 's movements during the last twenty-four hours , but at last the door closed and Sophie turned to Helen . |
| 10 | On April 14 Kaunda told Radio Zambia that in view of Zambia 's experiences in the first few years after independence , when more than one party had operated , " the question of whether the multiparty system will solve Zambia 's problems is a yes-and-no situation which has to be considered very cautiously " . |
| 11 | Also getting a lot of media attention was the National Study of Childhood Cancer , which is going to look at a number of background environmental factors in all children 's cancers during the next five years . |
| 12 | A shipload of India 's textiles in the next two months would encourage the villager and ensure 1,000,000 tons of rice from Burma 's surplus for India next Christmas . |
| 13 | In his Life of Hooker Walton states that in the original lost manuscripts there was no mention of kings being accountable to the people ; and he relates how Charles I , in a discussion with the Parliamentary leader Lord Saye , refused to accept any arguments based on the last three books , because it was doubtful whether they were authentic , although he gladly accepted Hooker 's judgements in the first five . |
| 14 | Although the operation would not disclose just what it managed to contribute to Sun 's coffers in the last financial year , SunExpress president , Dorothy Terell , agreed that it had lived up to expectations — of around $150m — predicted by Scott McNealy when SunExpress was introduced . |
| 15 | It was against this background that WACC 's Central Committee considered WACC 's priorities for the next five years . |
| 16 | There are six contestants , and two of them will be chosen to be wardens of the John Dakyn Trust and administer the trust 's affairs for the next two years . |
| 17 | Although Anker Simmons was one of the original quartet and chaired the first meeting , he does not figure greatly in the Club 's affairs after the first few months . |
| 18 | British consumers will have to find £90m to meet the EC 's directives over the next few years ; might this large amount of money not have been better spent , say , in building hospitals and schools ? |
| 19 | There is enough recorded in Warnie 's diaries over the next twenty years of friction and domestic misery to make us see why Jack had misgivings about the advisability of their all attempting to live together . |
| 20 | And his perfect ending would be for Villa to become the first winners of the Premier League and break United 's hearts for the second successive season in a title run-in . |
| 21 | Kenneth Baker put the Party faithful under starter 's orders for the next general election ; he told them to get ready for a fight , and then told them why they would win . |
| 22 | The theme of raising standards is continued in Historic Scotland 's 1993 Corporate Plan , which sets out the agency 's objectives for the next three years . |
| 23 | While emphatically denying that he had acted improperly — Richardson claimed that his resignation was motivated by the desire to avoid damaging the ALP 's prospects in the next federal elections , due by mid-1993 — he admitted meeting Symons in his Senate office , writing a reference for him , and telephoning Amata Kabua , President of the Marshall Islands , after Symons was arrested . |
| 24 | There are some absolute gems of solos scattered over Ayer 's albums of the last 15 years — check out ‘ Falling Up ’ or ‘ As Close As You Think ’ for the most recent . |
| 25 | The Labour Party 's manifestos at the last two general elections contained proposals to lower the main retirement age . |
| 26 | The Plan also details Historic Scotland 's achievements over the last two years . |
| 27 | The director of the project , which employed 60 people near the Cornish town of Penryn , had claimed that " hot rock " energy could provide power to meet all the south-west 's requirements over the next 20 years . |
| 28 | Vic goes down in football 's annals as the first international player to be chosen from the ranks of the 4th Division ( for Wales against Northern Ireland in Belfast on 22 April 1959 ) , but Palace fans should know that this was no freak selection , for Vic had impressed many with his splendid performances and was in a run of 143 consecutive League games with just a single absence for us . |
| 29 | Although those who studied at Kiev University ( Vil'na 's successor ) had to know enough Russian to understand lectures , they constituted the majority of the new university 's students for the first thirty years of its life and did not need Russian to consort with their peers . |
| 30 | Timber companies could destroy Siberia 's forests within the next 40-50 years , according to research by the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis . |