Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [num] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I do n't think that 's right , fair or democratic and if we 've shied away from it for years handling this issue and now we 're in the position where this house has total responsibility for the thirty thousand citizens in total of Gibralt it 's not the electorate , the total population , thirty thousand and we continued to deny them vote yet they are citizens of the European union under our own legislation and accepted as such by the European parliament and it is wholly wrong Mr Deputy Speaker that the boundaries that we 're discussing in this bill were not drawn so that and it could easily have been done , that we could have incorporated the twenty odd thousand European union citizens of Gibraltar who do wish to be part of Spain and wo n't be for fifty years or more until it 's been a democracy that long , but to give them the right to vote . |
| 2 | Alan Irwin captains the side and he will have Robert Glenn , Brian Faith , Taff Watson and George Neilly all fighting for the other two berths in the back row . |
| 3 | The French-language Film Festival taking place at Dublin 's Screen Cinema , College Street for the first two weeks in November has just announced details of a special screening of Louis Grospierre 's ‘ Fatal Lovers ’ , a film shot entirely in the beautiful surrounds of Connemara . |
| 4 | First and second gear are nearly impossible to shift up and down , or from third to second for the first two miles in winter . |
| 5 | THE COMBINED Birmingham Railway Museum and Birmingham Mail ‘ Santa Specials ’ were enjoying good publicity and seat booking for the first two Sundays in December . |
| 6 | For the first two years in government we will concentrate resources on the essential tasks of combating unemployment and poverty … |
| 7 | For the first four Mondays in the month a walk will set off at 10.30am from Plas y Brenin National Mountain Centre ( GR 1718579 ) . |
| 8 | The pension can be drawn in full for the first eight weeks in hospital , after which your parent will be notified that it will be reduced by a few pounds ( for the exact amount of the reduction see the current issue of leaflet NI9 ) . |
| 9 | Technology classes were ‘ acceptable ’ for the first three years in primary school . |
| 10 | Table 4 supports the primacy effect as recall is significantly greater for the first three words in the list . |
| 11 | For the first 30 days in Nepal bank exchange receipts for $20 a day are no longer required to obtain a trekking permit . |
| 12 | The CIS have chosen the London race as their selection point for the remaining two places in the Barcelona Olympics . |
| 13 | When you have completed colour 2 , do the same for the remaining six colours in the palette . |
| 14 | The second round planned for Jan. 16 would select deputies for the remaining 199 seats in which no candidate had won an absolute majority on Dec. 26 . |
| 15 | The opening concert — a performance of The Creation , conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras — sets a high standard for the remaining seven concerts in the series . |
| 16 | It was as if all that we had done … had been a school and a preparation both for that first day in which I suddenly knew how to make one-step dry photographic process and for the following three years in which we made the very vivid dream into a solid reality . |
| 17 | Tens means more running rugby and more rough and tumble for the top 16 sides in England . |
| 18 | But Hutchison , a captain in the Royal Engineers , faced a much closer battle between World Cup skiers fighting for the top four places in the men 's event . |
| 19 | I 'd no idea how he 'd got the invite because it was supposed to be a tournament for the top eight players in the world , and he had n't reached that standard . |
| 20 | The war of words with Damascus follows escalating violence in Kurdish-dominated south-east Turkey , where the PKK has been fighting security forces for the past eight years in a struggle for an independent Kurdish state . |
| 21 | Armed members of the the London Metropolitan force have been pulling in drivers for the past two weeks in 20 operations . |
| 22 | Japanese banks were all-powerful in the 1980s but have been reducing their international involvement for the past 18 months in order to focus on their domestic problems . |
| 23 | Max Henry , who 's kicked around NeXT Inc for the last four-and-a-half years in sales and software recruitment roles , mostly recently holding the post of VP and general manager , Asia Pacific , has jumped shipped to head up the American arm of windowing house JSB as president . |
| 24 | His own firm had been picketed for the last five months in a dispute over the use of new technology . |
| 25 | Table 3 shows recall to be significantly greater for the last five words in the list when recall is immediate and thus supports the recency effect . |
| 26 | These changes strike at the very base of rugby union football as played for the last 100 years in that a player could play when , where and for whom providing that he paid his subscription before departing from his old club . |
| 27 | And you know it , it 's amazing how since my involvement for the last two years in Great Britain , all the problems that you have with critical illness , all the problems . |
| 28 | It also puts money into the Yorkshire and Humberside Development Association which is wholly involved and has been for the last two years in trying to get large scale erm strategic inward investment into the county , and erm it is a erm awkwardness I think that it 's best to be open about that the planning policy of the county is out of tune with the day factor activities of the economic development side of the of the county council . |
| 29 | We have tried to sum up the fragments of information which we have for the last three centuries in our second chapter , ‘ Glimpses of a Lost History ’ . |
| 30 | They 've been living for the last ten years in an environment where they expect there to be a high level of occult activity in society . |