Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] for the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crime in Strathclyde has fallen for the ninth consecutive month . |
| 2 | The number of people out of work has fallen for the fifth consecutive month . |
| 3 | The position of the team test driver , which McNish has occupied for the last two years with Marlboro McLaren , can lead to a permanent seat in the team — as happened to Damon Hill , who has replaced Nigel Mansell alongside Alain Prost with Williams-Renault . |
| 4 | Metcalfe and Richards point out that the strategic management literature has wrestled for the last 20 years with the problems of managing for results in unstable conditions , yet the lessons which emerge are just starting to be taken on board in the public sector . |
| 5 | That 's what we er we want , that 's what we require , because do n't forget old people er , in fact our present national treasurer , a Mrs Mary , is now serving as the national treasurer and has done for the last thirty five years . |
| 6 | In nineteen ninety three , four we made a seventy one thousand reduction in economic development , and this year we 're proposing to make a fifty thousand , there 're actually cuts I think , that any committee of any council has made for the last three years . |
| 7 | Permanent plants include the architectural Cordyline australis , and the winter flowering cherry Prunus subhirtella " Autumnalis " , which has flowered for the last two years . |
| 8 | They 're all members of the British Nuclear Test Veteran Association which has campaigned for the last ten years to get recognition for its members , who feel they were used as human guinea pigs . |
| 9 | Joan Knight will also be returning to the theatre which she has run for the last 25 years , Andrew McKinnon having invited her to direct Tally 's Blood . |
| 10 | It 's the latest twist in the lengthy club versus country row which has simmered for the last two seasons . |
| 11 | He has informed his doctors and begun the painful process to negate the effects of the hormones he has taken for the last nine months . |
| 12 | The same applies to Ashford , where according to our figures the same has happened for the last three years . |
| 13 | She ran a business and worked in a health shop to work her way through four years of study at the Northern College of Homeopathy , Gateshead , and has practised for the last six months under supervision . |
| 14 | Maude 's telegram from the Queen was also expected this morning at Trees Park Village , near Middleton St George , where she has lived for the last seven years . |
| 15 | TRADE : The gradual improvement in trade has held for the first four months of 1993 according to the Builders Merchants Federation . |
| 16 | Mainly for where it 's lived for the last three or four years I think . |