Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num ord] [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Entries for the seventh annual darts tournament at Willington 's Spectrum Leisure Complex close on March 31 . |
| 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 | He had his eyes closed , and for the first few moments Belinda kept hers open , so she could see in extreme close-up the blurred crescents of his dark lashes resting on the smoothly tanned skin of his cheeks . |
| 6 | For the first few years Blackpool 's trams represented the only practical example in the World , of electric tramcars running in crowded thoroughfares . |
| 7 | With Lindsey 's Corsair being the only one of its type in Europe , airshow organisers had to approach him if they wanted a Corsair in their flying display , and for the first few years John Allison and Lindsey flew all over Europe with the aircraft . |
| 8 | For the first three months Barfield is officially the ER businesses ' proprietor and holds any surplus funds they generate . |
| 9 | The men claimed that for the last six weeks women and children had been ‘ assaulted and humiliated ’ during raids on houses in loyalist areas . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For the last five years Volkov has been drinking himself to death . |
| 13 | Kurt Forster , for the last eight years Director of the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities at Santa Monica , has resigned to accept the Chair in the History of Art and Architecture at Zurich 's Federal Polytechnic . |
| 14 | For the last 6,000 years Hong Kong 's coastline has remained unchanged . |
| 15 | For the last 5 years Swindon Health Authority has denied responsibility . |
| 16 | Every morning for the last two weeks staff from Gloucester City Council have picketted outside their North Warehouse office . |
| 17 | For the last two years Bob Mayhew has given demonstrations at the Horse and Rider Show which have proved very popular , and this year has been requested to give a teach-in at the Olympia Christmas Show . |
| 18 | For the last two years Hodder has run publicity for fiction and paperbacks and for non-fiction out of two units and under two managers , Beth MacDougall and Sally Randall . |
| 19 | For the last 20 years researchers have been able to calculate genome sizes and mutation rates . |
| 20 | For the last three years Steve and Rose have lived in London , having moved from Nottingham so that Steve could take a course in carpentry . |
| 21 | For the last three years OUP 's text processing systems have used an ICL 2904 for its main processing with certain programs on a Burroughs B6800 . |
| 22 | For the last three years Bowler , 32 , had been taking anti-depressant medication as a result of her husband 's treatment of her . |
| 23 | And when I got back for the last few weeks Mortimer had left … ’ |
| 24 | But for some reason , Tina had adopted him in her rough , kindly way , and for the last few months school life had been bearable . |
| 25 | For the last few years Pinfield had been based with the Langham Group , a somewhat elitist special projects body under Anthony Pellisier charged with producing very experimental forms of drama — using techniques like inlay , overlay and split screening ; for example , matting caption slide backgrounds over black drape stages . |
| 26 | For the last few years Weir has been one of the most consistent performers of any quoted Scottish company , with a steady improvement in sales and profits . |
| 27 | Superimposed colours , transparency and opacity , signs of rust where moisture has seeped into the cloth stretched over the frame : for the last ten years Michel Mouffe 's work has created its own history through the layered transformations taking place within the canvas . |
| 28 | For the last ten years interest in the double-breasted suit has been enthusiastically revived , but now the single-breasted has its champions again . |
| 29 | For the last forty years population growth has been used an explanation for African famine , allowing us to blame Africans for bringing their poverty upon themselves . |
| 30 | For the next eighteen years people like Hendrik Lorentz and George Fitzgerald tried to accommodate this observation within accepted ideas of space and time . |