Example sentences of "[is] [verb] the [adj] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With signs the recession is ending the next two months will show whether the Leicester lights help or hinder shopkeepers . |
| 2 | Then all you have to do to win this exclusive guitar is to answer the following six questions and , if you 're the first correct entry out of the hat , this incredible instrument is yours . |
| 3 | The second time , she 's expressing the same two sentiments over some other shambling case of physical dereliction , while I 'm left panting on an immobile bicycle and I never go back . |
| 4 | What Summerchild is doing , now he has someone to do it for , is living the last dozen years of his life , which have gone by without his quite taking them in . |
| 5 | His advice is to study the first four pages of the explanatory booklet carefully , particularly paragraph six — action to take now . |
| 6 | ‘ Do you think I 'm jealous of Eleanor because she 's spent the last four years with you , and I have n't ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Potter 's spent the last fifteen years harming people like Geoffrey . |
| 8 | Phil Farrand says that he 's spent the last two years building the car and has put hours of work into it … his machine runs on the same amount of power that drives a toaster or a hair dryer so much for ceremony … with the sun blazing down its time to race south … the track is the main Stewart Highway … |
| 9 | Tomorrow in the final part of the series , a farmer who 's spent the last ten years converting his farm puts the case for organic farming . |
| 10 | That 's my normal naming convention , my normal naming convention is use the first two letters W L. W I 've explained , and L stands for linking . |
| 11 | Now with a group of other Britons he 's cycling the fifteen hundred miles of his original escape route , to raise money for surviving resistance members . |
| 12 | Mr Ashdown is to spend the last four days of the campaign stressing the need for a lasting coalition to rescue the country from economic and political crisis . |
| 13 | To have a chance of winning one of these fabulous pairs of boots all you have to do is find the following eight words in the word square : LINE 7 , GORETEX , GT RIFT , RAIDER , PANDA , RANGER , ROVER and LADY GT . |