Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was needed was a simpler more speedy procedure and so Parliament intervened with the first Public Health Act in 1848 , the forerunner of modern public health legislation . |
| 2 | Drivers of Italian heavy goods vehicles began a blockade of customs posts at the border with Austria on Sept. 13 , 1989 , causing tailbacks of several thousand lorries at the Brenner Pass and other crossing points over the next eight days . |
| 3 | Now for Tendulkar : how many Test runs will this elegant little genius make in the next dozen years ? |
| 4 | These seem to have had their fears that the flood gates holding back university collections are now opening confirmed , as Edinburgh University announced last month that it was proposing to sell a sculpture by Adrian de Vries or a Ruisdael landscape , bequeathed by Sir James Torrie , to help put right a deficit permitted over the last few years by a Treasurer who has since resigned . |
| 5 | I asked at the meeting of the city board and I asked on more than one occasion , and did n't get a proper answer , what the labour group intended to do with the three point two million pounds that will build up in reserve say for the next three years . |
| 6 | As they do so , they deposit a load of pollen within the orchid flower and immediately afterwards receive a fresh batch to carry to the next false female . |
| 7 | Episodes of intestinal obstruction usually occurred in the first year of operation but in seven patients admission to hospital with obstruction occurred after the first 12 months . |
| 8 | THE COMBINED Birmingham Railway Museum and Birmingham Mail ‘ Santa Specials ’ were enjoying good publicity and seat booking for the first two Sundays in December . |
| 9 | Competitively , snooker has until the last few years been confined to Britain and its old Commonwealth , but there have always been a few tables in the Far East , catering for the needs of expats . |
| 10 | This particular novelty was the third short orchestral piece to appear in the last few years , written , like the second , at Knussen 's prompting , and it rounded off a performance of all three as a suite , titled Three Occasions for Orchestra . |
| 11 | As he had argued in Totem and Taboo , murder occurred in the first human groups , and the prohibition on killing came from the father . |
| 12 | Matthey Electronics Burslem has for the third successive year won the prestigious RoSPA Gold Award for Occupational Safety . |
| 13 | New Roof Installed Within The Last Twelve Months |
| 14 | Mr Beregovoy is expected to approve proposals for a Gallic form of personal equity plans in the next few weeks which would allow French investors up to £60,000 worth of shares each , free of dividend and capital gains tax . |
| 15 | The most popular period for BES investment occurs in the last three months of the tax year as investors begin to think about reducing tax liabilities ; the early autumn sees a second surge as investors can claim up to half the tax relief for the previous year on investments made before 6 October ( subject to a maximum of £5,000 ) . |
| 16 | Her whole future depends on the next few moments ! |
| 17 | In early February 1991 Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland had all begun negotiations on association agreements with the EC , which was offering a 10-year transition period to mutual free trade in two stages with asymmetrically large EC tariff cuts over the first five years in all sectors except agriculture , steel and textiles — the very areas where the three countries most desired access . |
| 18 | One hundred and twenty one patients with parenchymal cirrhosis presenting with the first variceal bleeding episode between June 1983 and December 1988 were studied . |
| 19 | An economic agreement worth 7,200,000 million lire in the form of a government-guaranteed loan and export credits over the next five years , as announced by Italy on Oct. 18 , was also signed . |
| 20 | The Secretaryship , possibly joint with Club Stewardship , was in the control of Mr. and Mrs. H.J. Young from 1914 to 1921 at which Annual General Meeting they were presented with some silver ‘ for keeping the club going for the last six years ’ . |
| 21 | The apprentices from RAF Halton In Buckinghamshire have been keeping the air force flying for the last seventy two years . |
| 22 | Three of those eight variables ( excluding Pugh score ) independently influenced patient survival in the logistic regression analysis : encephalopathy , Prothrombin time and units of blood transfused within the first 72 hours ( current model ) . |
| 23 | We were never meant to fall for Satan but despite the poet 's efforts to make sure we do n't , we can not forget the magnificent figure encountered in the first two books . |
| 24 | Foulds could only muster single figure totals in the next two as Doherty opened up a 2–1 lead . |
| 25 | For a £1 ‘ Each Way ’ bet , you stake £2. £1 of this goes on the same horse to win and the other £1 goes on the same horse to finish in the first three or four places , depending on how many runners there are in the race . |
| 26 | If the hon. Gentleman examines measures of GDP per head and compares this country with France , Germany or Italy , he will find that the gap widened under the last Labour Government and has closed under the present Government . |
| 27 | The sum of£3 8s 6d was raised in this way , and the practice continued for the next eighty years . |
| 28 | Their friendship continued for the next few days . |
| 29 | With hindsight , she says : ‘ I wished I 'd kept my mouth shut in the first three weeks . |
| 30 | Their heyday lasted for the first five years of the Eighties , when they scored the incredible total of 20 consecutive Top 20 hits . |