Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As he had argued in Totem and Taboo , murder occurred in the first human groups , and the prohibition on killing came from the father . |
| 3 | The sum of£3 8s 6d was raised in this way , and the practice continued for the next eighty years . |
| 4 | Their friendship continued for the next few days . |
| 5 | Their heyday lasted for the first five years of the Eighties , when they scored the incredible total of 20 consecutive Top 20 hits . |
| 6 | John 's lamp light lasted for the first few hours of his entombment and from then on he was in total darkness . |
| 7 | His rise to prominence came during the first Dutch war ( 1652–4 ) . |
| 8 | The Chancellor said in the first nine months of 1992–93 the Employment Service found jobs for 31,000 unemployed disabled people , 25 per cent more than in the same period of 1991–92 . |
| 9 | The first group consisted of the first 15 consecurive patients and 11 consecutive volunteers who were asked not to swallow any saliva ( they were asked to spit it out ) . |
| 10 | The unrest continued over the next few days and by May 22 the number of Palestinians killed by the IDF had risen to 21 . |
| 11 | The impact of the oil crisis and its associated inflation led to the first actual decline in income for OECD countries for over a quarter of a century . |
| 12 | Your comment was made in a week when manufacturing output fell for the seventh successive quarter and unemployment rose for the 23rd successive month . |
| 13 | The right hon. Gentleman forgets that manufacturing output fell under the last Labour Government and has risen under this Government . |
| 14 | The hon. Gentleman should remember that manufacturing output fell under the last Labour Government and that it is up under this Government . |
| 15 | But while the services sector is strengthening , factory output fell in the last three months . |
| 16 | When the Civil Service proceeded to the first comprehensive retirement programme in the 1850s , the justification for imposing the cowardly administrative convenience of an age barrier was how invidious it would have been to attempt any form of assessment . |
| 17 | The carnage endured in the last 20 years or so has mainly arisen not from what we from the mainland have done and/or been alleged to do , but from the conflict brought about by ineradicable sectarian fears and ambitions . |
| 18 | Zhelev 's victory came in the second round run-off , when he won 53 per cent of the vote against 47 per cent for Velko Valkanov , an independent supported by the ( former communist ) Bulgarian Socialist Party . |
| 19 | He was also ready for office , and was delighted when an offer came in the first few weeks of the new Government . |
| 20 | All that is verging on the silly : as one who can remember Andy Pandy and the ravishing girl who read ‘ Picture Book ’ , the fact that daytime television arrived in the last six or seven years seems rather insignificant . |
| 21 | The tittering started during the first five minutes of the piece , and grew . |
| 22 | As a result of the bad weather , the Royal Bank of Scotland 's oil index fell for the second consecutive month to 114.5 , the second lowest January since the index began ten years ago . |
| 23 | And his voice rose on the last two words . |
| 24 | Most cases ( 63% ) of chronic diarrhoea occurred in the first two years of life . |
| 25 | Clinical deterioration occurred in the first three months of treatment in seven cases . |
| 26 | Debate on the all-important , but heavily traditionalist , schema on the Church began at the 31st general congregation on 1 December . |
| 27 | It is the kind of ‘ big ’ development that is very out of fashion with the money men at present , and it is unlikely that we will be seeing anything on this scale started in the next few years . |
| 28 | The adoral shields are wing-like with the proximal edge indented opposite the second oral tentacle pore and separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 29 | This ambiguous situation led to the first English clash with Spain . |
| 30 | The real evidence of successful integration occurred after the first two weeks . |