Example sentences of "[prep] the [num ord] [adj] [noun] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This legislation requires that people for the first thirteen weeks that they are unemployed have the right to look for a job which they have experience in and enjoy doing , but after 13 weeks they are required to take any job that comes along . |
| 2 | If your employee qualifies for the higher rate , it should be paid for the first six weeks that higher rate SMP is due . |
| 3 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
| 4 | The electricity cable laying to give 'em a job so you could play for the Ipswich Electric Supply Team and we had a jolly good team , we won the cup for the first three years that it was in being but the finals used to be on Portman Road and course that was in those days a thing to be looked forward to . |
| 5 | Sonorous For the first three months that Presentations 2.0 is on sale , it will come bundled with a SoundBlaster Pro sound card . |
| 6 | The charge will be 0 for the first 6 months that a property is empty . |
| 7 | Zvi could n't remember how long it was since he had last found it necessary to advertise , but with Wine telling the Cork Examiner 's readers for the last three weeks that ‘ owing to the great increase of my practice ’ he was moving to larger premises Zvi felt he had no alternative . |
| 8 | Of course , for the next financial year that is still some dark winter months away . |
| 9 | Since taking the post , Susan has benefited from training offered by the local authority and will be applying for the next supervisory post that is available . |
| 10 | The trio were so utterly absorbed in each other for the next half hour that none of them noticed Rose Williams watching them from some little distance , her face screwed into a sour smile of bitterness and longing . |
| 11 | For some , homesickness is so bad during the first few months that they have no alternative but to go back home again . |
| 12 | During the first few days that Mr Reynolds was in hospital the main aims of his care were to confirm the diagnosis of carcinoma of the rectum , and to ensure that both Mr and Mrs Reynolds understood the implications of this . |
| 13 | I felt an incredible sense of relief and achievement , but as Richard quickly reminded me it 's not during the first free flights that a bird takes the opportunity to fly off , because it does n't fully realise what it means to be free . |
| 14 | However , it became increasingly obvious during the next two years that the Ryder Report had been over optimistic about the market share of Leyland , and that even large injections of capital were insufficient to overcome the problems of poor labour relations , low productivity and entrenched attitudes . |
| 15 | The physical act of training breaks down part of the muscle exercised , and it is during the next 24–72 hours that the muscles recover and begin to grow . |
| 16 | It was during the next 8 years that he began to experience the first stirrings of an interest destined to change his life beyond all imaginings . |
| 17 | In a letter to Mr Major last night , Mr Smith accused the Prime Minister of giving no good reason why the legal opinion on the Maastricht legislation should not be published or why it overturned the view from the Foreign Office during the last 10 months that a vote in favour of the social chapter would wreck the treaty . |
| 18 | There can be no art movement of the last 200 years that he has failed to sanction . |
| 19 | They are now indulging in distortion and scaremongering , but they are unable to hide the record of the last 13 years that has caused so much misery to so many people . |
| 20 | At the same time not only was there another G number but it was the same make of car as the last five G numbers had been and it was the same colour as three out of the last ten cars that had passed the other way . |
| 21 | Really the only reason I could think of when it 's you know it is important to put things on paper are really like the last three bits that we talked the last three things we talked about which detailed information would need to be there so people can read it when you know it 's got to get to a lot people not all in the same place at the same time or when it 's you need a copy . |
| 22 | It is because no institution or individual is proof against the third essential ingredient that makes us what we are — the Zeitgeist , the spirit of the times . |
| 23 | And then as he turned and walked away he took the blackjack , which had come out of his pocket in the same handful , and tossed it into the first unblocked drain that he saw . |
| 24 | However , it is only within the last 10 years that it has become possible to process text electronically and thus improve the way non-routine information can be handled . |
| 25 | There are likely to be a number of crucial calculations within the next few years that have the possibility of showing that the theory is no good . |
| 26 | You know there was an old legal story er saying rather er that er in the first five years that a a j a man is appointed a judge he does n't know the job . |
| 27 | Certainly in the first 10 years that the two species overlapped , the proportion of magpie nests which were parasitised rocketed from a quarter to more than three quarters , as the cuckoos switched away from the more discriminating meadow buntings . |
| 28 | Lead levels from a system with lead piping are much higher in the first few pints that come from a tap that has been left turned off than after the water has run for a few minutes , as this flushes out much of the dissolved lead . |
| 29 | It became increasingly clear in the next two years that the change in leaders and policy had served only to weaken the Party still further . |
| 30 | What I want you to look for in the next little passage that we look at is the way that the Sanhedrin present their case to Pontius Pilate . |