Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [num ord] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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31 His followers at the Yorkshire track have raked it in over the last five years with a 1 level stake on all his mounts showing more than 45 to the good .
32 And er at the end of it I think we all felt we knew where we were going , and , and what the work that we 'd put in over the last three years on the management procedures , which form the foundations of our quality system .
33 As an innovator , what directions would you like to see archaeology go in over the next twenty years ?
34 staff salaries have gone down over the last eighteen months
35 In Brazil there are all sorts of commodities whose price has gone down over the last ten years .
36 The yard will be run down over the next three weeks with the loss of 600 jobs .
37 The delay necessitated going back to the trough for a third-round of venture capital after going through the $12m brought in by the first two rounds .
38 The equality of opportunity and equal pay for work of equal value and all those things are are are are issues which er have been fought over for the last twenty years .
39 It really is not necessary to get bored with eating the same foods over and over during the next four weeks .
40 Everything came through in the first nine months of 1991 so the company was able to trade profitably .
41 Colleagues I 'd just like to put one of er John 's themes and that is that for the next couple of days we 've got a hell of a lot of business to get through and er we 've done quite well so far but er I would certainly be looking where possible colleagues for formally seconding er , as often as possible , if not all the time and I really appreciate your er your assistance in that regard because we have a great deal of business to get through in the next two days .
42 ‘ No one knows what I 've been through in the last 12 months , ’ he said .
43 They have contributed only 39% of what the central government requires them to hand over in the first three months of the year .
44 The Romanesque was taken over in the last two decades of the nineteenth century , when American railway-station building reached its apogee in masterpieces of creative eclecticism .
45 Webb 's move back to his old club should go through within the next 48 hours .
46 A 68 put Ballesteros safely through to the last two days but a distressed Olazabal , despite a 69 , faced an anxious wait to see if he would make the cut .
47 Nor does it rely principally on my experience in classrooms , though I have been , briefly , a secondary schoolteacher and have been visiting schools and working with young people in a variety of ways on and off for the last sixteen years .
48 Volkov had been written off for the last five years .
49 Speaking last night from the motel in Kelowna , 400 miles north of Vancouver , where she has lived on and off for the last three years , Mrs Allan said : ‘ I am not coming home until I have got my child .
50 Please have a think you know have a think about some of the things have a look out if you get out anywhere tonight watching people when they 're together just watch them any ideas that you have tomorrow we 'll start off with the first ten minutes just going over some of the things we talked about this evening .
51 The FA will also investigate Dunstable 's bizarre exit from the FA Cup on Saturday when the entire team walked off in their second-round qualifying tie at Staines after having three players sent off in the first 38 minutes .
52 UI reportedly told staff laid off in the last two weeks that it was short of funds , attributing the situation to an accounting error .
53 Seven meetings have been called off in the last two days , including all three of yesterday 's cards plus three scheduled for today at Carlisle , Taunton and Warwick .
54 Real Madrid showed too much passion and had two sent off in the last 16 minutes of their UEFA Cup tie at Sigma Olomouc of Czechoslovakia .
55 Bruce Grobbelaar 's sending off in the last ten minutes in the Moscow first leg ultimately proved decisive .
56 ‘ It has particularly taken off in the last three years .
57 This , it has to be said , has been in no small part due to the advent of the in-store bakery ; a concept which has really taken off over the last 10 years .
58 We all took off on the last hundred yards ' dash and I was mildly surprised to find that the first man past the post was myself — and I was n't really out of breath .
59 Bowater 's retiring chairman , Norman Ireland , described the purchase as an ‘ exhilarating opportunity ’ and said trading in the last four months of 1992 had been good and this had carried on into the first two months of this year .
60 In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child .
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