Example sentences of "[n mass] [noun] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They have saved the sheep industry during the last 12 months . ’ |
| 2 | Accounts recently published show the club made a £3m loss in the last financial year . |
| 3 | That rise means Alliance has outstripped the FT-A Index for the fourth successive year , this time by nearly 5 per cent . |
| 4 | The trustees of Carmel village hall , near Holywell , have been paying a nominal £1 rent for the last 21 years . |
| 5 | The transitions mentioned above are envisaged to become ‘ standard development ’ for expert systems in aircraft maintenance in the next few years . |
| 6 | We have therefore included in the cost of your holiday insurance protection : after a 12-hour delay at the start of your holiday , you have the right to cancel and get a full refund of all the money you have paid us , excluding insurance premiums — or , if you continue on your holiday , we will give you £20 compensation for the first 12- hours ' delay : for each subsequent 12-hour delay we will give you a further £10 — up to a maximum of £100 per person in total . |
| 7 | or , if you continue on your holiday , we will give you £20 compensation for the first 12 hours ' delay ; for each subsequent 12-hour delay we will give you a further £10 — up to a maximum of £60 per person in total . |
| 8 | Actor , author and director of multi-media events over the last ten years , Ricardo Mosner has concentrated mainly on painting , sculpture and graphic art . |
| 9 | The Northern has made a £1,690 profit on its imaginary £10,000 portfolio in the first two months of the year , while Wise Speke has made £574 . |
| 10 | Steve Raper ( Punyettas ) had a 4 lb bream in the first ten minutes opposite the bungalows and continued on the feeder with caster for roach that lifted him to 11–10–0 . |
| 11 | It can be seen that there is an initial 20% mortality during the first three months in those randomised to surgery , with virtually no further deaths occurring during the next 24 months . |
| 12 | Izvestiya reported on July 20 the conclusions of the State Statistics Committee for the first six months of 1992 . |
| 13 | The two men , arguably the fastest finishers in the world , unleashed their 40mph sprints in the last 400 metres of the 131-mile race , leaving the rest of the field to watch . |
| 14 | a share which pays an annual dividend of 10p which is expected to grow by 6% p.a. for the next 10 years and 4% p.a. thereafter . |
| 15 | Roberta M. Olson Ottocento : romanticism and revolution in nineteenth-century Italian painting ( The American Federation of Arts and Centro Di , New York and Florence , 1992 ) 293pp. fully illustrated in b/w and col. $67.95 Catalogue of the first major exhibition on this topic to be seen by an American audience since 1949 ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 22 , November 1992 , p.11 ) . |
| 16 | The Group , which is made up of Warrington and Runcorn Branches , pulled off victory by finishing top of Liverpool Region 's Royal Scottish sales chart in the first three months of the financial year . |
| 17 | The UK Department of Trade & Industry on Monday licensed a new transatlantic telephone operator on Monday , and the company has now begun operating : Swiftcall Ltd is using lines that it leases from Mercury Communications Ltd with calls to be delivered in the US by Sprint Corp , and will charge between 25 pence and 28 pence a minute plus tax , with a sign-on fee of £1,000 for companies , £50 for residential subscribers , the fee to be set against call charges until it runs out ; Swiftcall founder Tom McCabe told the paper that even at 30% capacity , he could reach annual turnover of £10m and make a substantial profit ; he plans a £2m investment in the first three years and will run the service with a staff of four from the World Trade Centre , near the Tower of London . |
| 18 | The minute here on sales ‘ rjm presented a summary of the sales figures for the last financial year and the of the titles . |
| 19 | Deputy Chairman Paul Whitfield further pointed to an encouraging improvement in sales performance in the last three months of the year . |
| 20 | He promised to bring inflation down to 4% a year from its current 12% , and to create 1m jobs in the next two years . |
| 21 | Faldo won the US Masters in April by holing a 25ft putt on the second extra hole to beat Scott Hoch , who had missed from inside two feet on the first . |
| 22 | My club control a water I have been carp fishing for the last three seasons and have just imposed a hair rig ban . |
| 23 | Over half of all patients developed a clinically import nt complication in the first 100 operations ( 52% ) ; this figure has now fallen to 25% in the last 68 operations . |
| 24 | After the completion of a £5.5M development over the last two years , Douglas Reyburn is now firmly positioned as one of the most modern spinning mills in the business and the largest woollen carpet yarn spinners in the country . |
| 25 | Despite a rather poor performance ‘ on the field ’ ( as we sportsmen say ) the club 's parent company last week reported a £810,000 profit in the last six months , an improvement over last year 's £2m loss . |
| 26 | Temperatures The generally accepted estimate is that the world warmed by 0.3–0.6 ° C during the last 100 years . |