Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether or not further concealed households are formed over the next fifteen years , seems to me to be an irrelevance . |
| 2 | And now we are to wait for the next ethnic war to intervene to salve our pitifully insensitive consciences and our failure to shape and conduct an effective policy : a neat one , no complications , allowing intervention with few , possibly no , losses . |
| 3 | These are addressed in the first five rooms , which treat late Bellini , Giorgione ( above all in the half-lengths ) , the Venetian Sebastiano , early Titian and the Giorgione-Titian-Campagnola controversy among the drawings . |
| 4 | Some of these are included in the Sixth Five Year Plan , and some of which have been tacked on to ad hoc annual plans . |
| 5 | The hotel , which will have full conference , banqueting and leisure facilities — including an outdoor swimming pool — is the first Novotel venture in Ireland , but others are expected over the next few years . |
| 6 | Although 24 large conference complexes have been built since 1975 and 22 new centres are expected within the next five years , hotels are still well placed to cater for conference business , as shown by the following table : |
| 7 | About 180,000 doses are expected within the next few days . |
| 8 | A quarter of a million are expected in the next ten to twelve days , and the overall total of refugees from Iraq and Kuwait may amount to a full million . |
| 9 | A further 120 rods are expected in the next few months and air transport is a possibility , the UKAEA says . |
| 10 | They are seen as the last surviving areas of untouched wildlife . |
| 11 | DAVID ANDERSON , chairman of Australian Mutual Provident , Australia 's biggest life insurer , and Einion Holland , chairman of Pearl Group , the British life insurance company , are meeting over the next few days amid speculation that the Australian group is poised to mount a takeover bid for Pearl worth at least £1bn . |
| 12 | Its component elements are absorbed in the first few years of life largely unconsciously , and later more deliberately by informal and formal learning processes . |
| 13 | In this process electrons are pumped into the first excited atomic level by absorbing light from a laser tuned to the correct frequency . |
| 14 | And they 're looking for the first little thing ! |
| 15 | But Athens gave the Games to the world , and we 're looking at the next one hundred years and if the I O C wants to do something special with Athens in ‘ 96 and if Athens wants to do it , we assure them that Atlanta will support that effort one hundred per cent . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , because we know exactly what we 're paying for the next 3 years ’ |
| 17 | They 're based for the next few weeks at RAF Lyneham , which is proud to be playing host to one of the most spectacular display teams in the world . |
| 18 | At least 150 miles of new rapid transit and underground railways are envisaged in the next 20 to 30 years . |
| 19 | The data , the smoothed values and the residuals are shown in the first three columns of figure 9.7 . |
| 20 | Products — announcements are promised over the next few months — will ship direct and to OEM customers . |
| 21 | Products — announcements are promised over the next few months — will ship direct and to OEM customers . |
| 22 | At present , half the abortions in the UK are performed in the first 12 weeks ; delays in getting from GP to clinics or consultants mean some women are n't seen until after the nine-week stage has passed . |
| 23 | THE Ministry of Defence is threatening to abolish all commoners ' centuries-old grazing rights on the Greenham Common nuclear cruise missile base , unless restrictions on the rights are agreed within the next few days . |
| 24 | Roman micromosaics are displayed in the first two rooms . |
| 25 | Entries are invited for the Fifth Annual PA Awards for Innovation in Building Design and Construction . |
| 26 | These two methods , faceted classification and enumerative classification , are introduced in the next two sections . |
| 27 | The bus industry and transport education and training are two of the three major topics on which urgent recommendations are focused in the Sixth Annual Report of the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee ( DPTAC ) , published in October 1992 . |
| 28 | To this end , you have the option of selecting a Midland Life Low Start Endowment Policy , under which your repayments are reduced over the first five years of the mortgage . |
| 29 | With a low-start , low-cost with-profits endowment , payments are reduced in the first few years , and the difference has to be made up in the remaining period . |
| 30 | These are linked to the first new component of the family , the OpenServer Directory Exchange Server , DXS , which provides a centralised repository of all user addresses on the network , and is responsible for propagating this information to the other electronic mail systems . |