Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her fears were justified during the next few hours , and Claudia was relieved when Dana at last went to sleep , curled up in Claudia 's spare bed , her rumpled curls damp with angry tears . |
| 2 | A spokesman said more cash calls were expected over the next few months as members become faced with increasing demands from agents to meet large losses . |
| 3 | But it has also been argued that the basic features of positivism applied to all causal theories of crime , whether biological ( as in the case of the founding fathers ) , psychological or sociological , that were to appear over the next half century or more ( Jeffery , 1960 ; Matza , 1964 ) . |
| 4 | Within the two weeks confidently predicted by Havelock Wilson company after company and local shipowner association after association made its peace with advances in wages and on 28 June some 100 shipowners met in London and decided , among other things , on the standardisation of the local rates which were accepted over the next few days . |
| 5 | Ten days were needed on the first few clauses alone . |
| 6 | Some very bad-luck cases come to mind of apparently indestructible characters who were chopped on the last few sorties — 97th or 98th . |
| 7 | Other services were established during the next few years . |
| 8 | The knights engaged in close combat but the jousting was cancelled after the first few contests as the horses were unsure of their footing in the mud and consequently the inept efforts of the knights produced only laughter from the spectators . |
| 9 | If you are one of the people who left the course at 4pm , I have enclosed a copy of the Action Plan that was considered during the last half hour . |
| 10 | Mr Maxwell said that the postponement was agreed in the last few weeks , following a decision to spend heavily next year on unspecified initiatives to increase Mirror Group 's market share . |
| 11 | so to a certain extent th the human that was introduced in the last few |
| 12 | Norman Pinder was creeping through the last few yards of shrubbery before he would reach the window of the small seminar room . |
| 13 | With the return to market relations for the bulk of the economy there also arose the need for a stable currency ; this was effected over the next few years with the introduction of a new , gold based rouble , alongside the paper Soviet rouble which was finally driven out of circulation . |
| 14 | That was taken in the last few years , er I j I I 've never bothered about clothes in my entire life . |
| 15 | Yes Alan was mentioning in the first half poor strike rate , just four goals in over two hundred and fifty appearances in his time at Leeds United . |
| 16 | The policy was cleared over the next few days and on 19 March I told the House of Commons that |
| 17 | In the light of what was to happen in the next few years , defeat by just 2–0 may be seen as something of a triumph , especially in view of the two traumas that occurred . |