Example sentences of "[num ord] [adj] [noun pl] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the next few years a keen struggle was waged to the entire satisfaction of neither nation . |
| 2 | The most promising compounds were selected and studied in many laboratories , and in the next few years a substantial number of monoamine oxidase inhibitors went into clinical trials , and some into widespread clinical use . |
| 3 | Disquiet at the new direction of religious affairs soon surfaced in parliament , and over the next few years a growing number of MPs began to speak out against the Arminian threat . |
| 4 | If they are not successfully concluded in the next few months a major objective of the single market will not have been achieved : far from becoming more internationally efficient and competitive , EC industry will fall further behind in a world of growing protectionism and trade blocs . |
| 5 | Within the last few years a small piece of wall has been restored and recapped to preserve the last few remains . |
| 6 | In the last few years a powerful controversy has arisen over whether the dinosaurs as a whole were cold-blooded , like all living reptiles ( and there is no doubt that dinosaurs were reptiles ) , or warm-blooded , resembling mammals in this respect . |
| 7 | It seems to me that we 're stronger fighting that together than apart and in the last few years a growing number of successful campaigns have strengthened this belief . |
| 8 | At the same time , British Rail agreed to withdraw for the next six months a proposed price increase for carrying the high quality limestone to the BS works at Redcar . |
| 9 | For the last 18 months a snapped rope on the church flagpole in Middleton Tyas near Darlington meant no colours could be hoisted to celebrate special days . |
| 10 | It demonstrates what appears to have been a major weakness of the UK economy , namely that the UK has required over the last twenty years a higher rate of gross investment to produce a given increase in output , than did West Germany , France , Japan , the USA or Canada . |
| 11 | For the next four years a great part of my time was spent in secret meditation upon this subject , I could not speak to anybody about it for fear of giving pain . |
| 12 | The ancient veneration for the rule of law has in England suffered during the last thirty years a marked decline . |
| 13 | Over the last two decades a great deal of work has been published by historians on the subject of popular culture . |
| 14 | Over the next hundred years a motley collection of military servicemen ( voennosluzhilie lyudi , fur-hunters , merchants , government officials , Orthodox clergymen , fugitive serfs , entrepreneurs and tradesmen ( promyshlenniki ) , convicts , religious dissidents , foreign prisoners-of-war ( generically known as Litva , ‘ Lithuanians ’ ) , cossacks , artisans , adventurers and vagrants ( gulyashchie lyudi ) steadily overwhelmed the indigenous Siberian native population and established a strongly defended network of wooden fortresses , outposts and stockaded population points , several of which swiftly grew from small military and administrative settlements into substantial , bustling frontier towns , a process described in more detail by David Collins in Chapter 2 of this book . |
| 15 | Almost alone among its peers , Britain will see over the next 20 years a small decline in its old-age dependency ratio ( the number of people aged over 65 as a proportion of the working population ) . |