Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] the [adj] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You look at the skill you did n't know you had , put a label on it and think : ‘ Yes I do do that ’ , whereas when you first walk in you think you 've done nothing for the last 18 years . |
| 2 | For inexperienced pilots flying in light winds , a good general rule is to allow a maximum of 3 miles ' glide per 1,000 feet with nothing for the last 1,000 feet . |
| 3 | People cease to be rational even when they 've known and worked with someone for the last ten years . ’ |
| 4 | Nobody in the Olympic 400 metres hurdles final could hold a candle to Gunnell 's superb technique , which put her head and shoulders ahead of the field . |
| 5 | Nobody in the Olympic 400 metres hurdles final could hold a candle to Gunnell 's superb technique , which put her head and shoulders ahead of the field . |
| 6 | One in five had received no training in the Act and most were expecting to receive none during the next six months . |
| 7 | Well erm I 've just come off holiday and so I wo n't be entitled to none for the first four days . |
| 8 | There could be none of the early 1960s sit-downs , it was implicitly recognized , this was no passive Gandhi protest , the state had to be confronted . |
| 9 | None of the other five saleswomen was available for comment . |
| 10 | Quinn made plain none of the other two kidnappers he saw uttered a word . |
| 11 | The once prestigious PSI returned 5 members only ; indeed , none of the other 23 parties represented were in double figures : most had one or two members . |
| 12 | As we discuss the changing role of the traditional high-street off-licence , it is all too plain that none of the first six customers have browsed or bought wine or done what the market research says they should be doing . |
| 13 | It is not clear whether it is the limited powers of the Tribunal or the wide powers of the Government which led to none of the first sixty-eight complaints to the Tribunal being upheld . |
| 14 | None of the remaining six Labours has yet been identified on British pottery . |
| 15 | None of the big eight firms in the UK — Heidrick and Struggles , Russell Reynolds , Egon Zehnder , Spencer Stuart and Korn/Ferry ( the international firms ) or Whitehead Mann , GKR and Norman Broadbent — is directly quoted on the Stock Exchange . |
| 16 | I sha n't spell out in detail what each one of the other eight genes does . |
| 17 | I did not try one with the full sixty degrees , which is almost a full airbrake setting and would doubtless produce a still slower stall speed , but the Bölkow is obviously capable of getting into a very short field if required . |
| 18 | Tell me something in the last eight years that I 've said . |
| 19 | ‘ Tell me something in the last eight years that I 've said . |
| 20 | Erm then you know that would be something whereas if they say well the recession 's so bad we have n't taken anybody for the last five years and your researches ca n't unearth anybody who seems to be prepared to er give you even half a chance then I mean |
| 21 | ‘ We 'd done nothing on the first two days here and I thought it was all going wrong . |
| 22 | ‘ The IRA have gained nothing over the past 20 years by their tactics of terrorism and murder . |
| 23 | And they will achieve nothing over the next 20 years . ’ |
| 24 | The Parish population , always minimal , had sunk to nil after the last two men had been hung for sheep-stealing . |
| 25 | My mother had four children she had bring up , without anything for the first two years , how the hell she managed it , I do n't know ! |
| 26 | ‘ Women say to me they have n't done anything for the last ten years and it turns out they have had four children , run the PTA , served as parent governor , done charity work , organised a community activity and cared for aged parents . ’ |
| 27 | I ca n't remember anything in the last fifteen years or so that has excited me in America . |
| 28 | Every time I 've asked him to do anything in the last three days , I ca n't , working out the quiz . |
| 29 | The hon. Gentleman should ask Neath borough council why , when money has been available , it has not applied for anything in the past two years . |