Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [num] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Air/Sea Rescue training school at RAF Mountbatten , Plymouth provided the type of training course relevant to our needs and they kindly consented to a selected few of our senior crew members attending the school for the necessary three months session . |
| 2 | For the first 4 years H. T. De la Beche , a Vice-President of the Geological Society , was the only geologist on the staff . |
| 3 | For the first two minutes Charlie defended himself well , using the ropes and the corner as he ducked and dived , remembering every skill he had learned at the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
| 4 | For the first two nights Martha peered under the bed for duppies and enjoyed having no one to forbid her ; by the third evening she forgot . |
| 5 | For the first three months Barfield is officially the ER businesses ' proprietor and holds any surplus funds they generate . |
| 6 | Phil Davies is recalled as Wales axe six players for the final Five Nations Championship match on Saturday . |
| 7 | SCOTLAND meet Romania at Murrayfield today in a match which should be a useful warm-up for the forthcoming Five Nations Championship . |
| 8 | For the past 13 years Polisario , operating in jeeps across the semi-desert , has mounted surprise attacks on the huge sand wall which runs across the country . |
| 9 | For the past five years Egham Swan Sanctuary has collected the swans and taken them away for a kind of annual holiday … |
| 10 | For the past five years members of the Durham Concert Secretaries Federation have held fund-raising events on behalf of the Wareham Wood Memorial Fund for cancer relief and the latest cheque was handed over at a special ceremony at Osborne Social Club , Chester-le-Street . |
| 11 | For the past fourteen years Lij Yasu had been held by Ras Kassa in comfortable detention at Fiche . |
| 12 | For the past eight years Jean has been employed as an office cleaner , having previously worked for fifteen years as a spinner in the ‘ mid-flat ’ . |
| 13 | For the past eleven years Joan has worked as a Clerkess in the dyed yarn store office , recording piece work production figures . |
| 14 | For the past two years Brand has seen the same sports psychologist , John Allsop , who helped Peter Baker earn a cup debut this month . |
| 15 | Also , for the past six years computers have been essential , if initially unwelcome , tools in my job , and the idea of spending leisure time absorbing even more radiation from a cathode ray tube does n't appeal . |
| 16 | For the past six months Jardines has been arguing that Hong Kong 's largest companies should be granted ‘ exempt listing status ’ . |
| 17 | For the past 18 months Norman has had intense physiotherapy and speech therapy to maximise the use of muscles he can move . |
| 18 | After keeping and breeding Malawi Cichlids for the past fifteen years NANCY SHUTTLE felt it was time for winds of change to blow into the fish house . |
| 19 | For the past four years Clare Radcliff has lived in RAF married quarters . |
| 20 | For the past twenty years Lily Goodenough has been fighting a brain tumour . |
| 21 | For the past 30 years Aegina has been producing about the best pistachios in the world . |
| 22 | Every Wednesday afternoon for the past 15 weeks Tony has ‘ tutored ’ 1st year pupils at nearby ( and almost equally fashionable ) Holland Park Comprehensive . |
| 23 | Bottomore writing in 1965 noted , ‘ For the past eighty years Marx 's theory has been the object of unrelenting criticism and tenacious defence ’ . |
| 24 | For the past three years Brenda has been learning German at the Open Learning Centre on site and she puts it to good use on frequent trips abroad . |
| 25 | For the past 20 years George ( the real star of this western-made film ) has been a cherished member of the Struutz family . |
| 26 | For the past 23 years Unionists have been saying exactly the same thing with regard to both security policy and political policy . |
| 27 | The men claimed that for the last six weeks women and children had been ‘ assaulted and humiliated ’ during raids on houses in loyalist areas . |
| 28 | For the last four years work has been going on behind the scenes and while over six million passengers per annum used the terminal during this project , few were aware of what was happening . |
| 29 | For the last five years Fortran has led a very quiet life , so quiet in fact the launch of new Fortran specifications two years ago , called Fortran90 , have pretty much gone unnoticed even by Fortran users . |
| 30 | For the last five years Volkov has been drinking himself to death . |