Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] for the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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1 | I mean they 're probably booked up now for the next three or four years anyway |
2 | ‘ It has been very quiet up here for the last two years , but suddenly we have had a surge , ’ says a Vardy spokesman . |
3 | It should be emphasised , however , that the crude rate is probably an underestmate of the true proportion of recurrent ulcers , because it assumes that patients who were withdrawn ( and therefore not followed up endoscopically for the entire 12 months ) did not develop an ulcer relapse . |
4 | I think if Shrewsbury can hold on now for the next five or six or seven minutes they could be alright . |
5 | ‘ I always , ’ he explains , ‘ had the feeling that I was taking the club back straight for the first two feet of the backswing but now I am taking it slightly inside . |
6 | it 's been going around and around here for the last four days er I bet it 's been coming round the block up this street about eight to ten times a day , I du n no what 's it doing , the up here |
7 | To date it is a subtle but important change of mood that , with luck , will grow stronger over the winter — allowing spring to bring those green shoots of recovery that the Treasury and the Chancellor have been banging on about for the last two years . |