Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num ord] three [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I buy this product regularly and for the last three months the price displayed on the shelf has been £1 . |
| 2 | ‘ For the last three years the boy has been my ward . |
| 3 | For the last three years the number of fires recorded during the Amazon burning season , July to October , has fallen , partly because of government action and partly because the economic slump has affected cattle ranchers and farmers . |
| 4 | For the next three hours the motorbike led them a nightmare chase over more than a hundred kilometres of mountain roads that were often little more than channels covered by scree and loose gravel , furrowed by rain-water and ridged by surfacing strata of rock . |
| 5 | For the next three years the Communists worked towards this aim , though with little concrete success . |
| 6 | But the only , I think the only course he 'll pass is mucking about course , let's see who can muck about for the next three years the most . |
| 7 | For the next three centuries the history of Dalmatia was dominated by the rivalry between Hungary and Venice . |
| 8 | Although it appears that sentencing became more severe during the first three years the guide-lines were in use , Minnesota remains one of the very few states that has avoided huge increases in prison population size ( Parent 1988 ) . |
| 9 | Although during the next three centuries the Serbs were victims of a struggle between Rome and Byzantium , the Eastern Church finally triumphed during the reign of Stephen Nemanja in the late twelfth century . |
| 10 | During the next three years the industry has committed £1 billion to cleaning up its discharges and recycling wastes which would otherwise be dumped . |
| 11 | In the next three weeks the same treatment was handed out to four more castles : Genzac , Marcillac , Grouville and Anville . |
| 12 | In the last three decades the number of such contributions is sadly small . |
| 13 | But in the last three months the shares have enjoyed a good ride , jumping 40p to nearly 280p . |
| 14 | Anybody whose ambitious at this point in time is taking a risk , in the last three years the world 's airlines have lost between them about ten billion U S dollars . |
| 15 | Over the first three legs the French had shown us a clean pair of heels , especially with superior baton-passing . |
| 16 | Over the last three years the board has contributed £581,275 towards improving such facilities at tourist attractions , in hotels and self-catering apartments . |
| 17 | Mr Milburn said latest figures showed that over the last three years the number of patients removed from waiting lists without having received treatment had increased 145pc . |
| 18 | Over the last three centuries the High Elves have re-established contact with the Old World and have , on occasion , despatched armies to support their human allies . |
| 19 | Over the next three years the government plans to commit just £3.3 million on this field and to redirect British research towards collaboration with other European countries . |
| 20 | Over the next three years the museum will spend $10 million to shift 1,000 works into a coherent scheme embracing the whole of Western civilisation since the Middle Ages . |
| 21 | Over the next three years the UK would make available £26,500,000 in drug-related aid to developing countries , with £4,500,000 earmarked in 1990 for Colombia . |
| 22 | Over the next three weeks the Bank of England lost about £60 million in gold and foreign exchange . |
| 23 | Indeed , I would go further and conclude that at least in relation to the last three payments the plaintiffs were not under a mistake of law but were strongly of the view that they were under no liability to pay . |
| 24 | And at the last three meetings the bookmakers have operated in a confined square which certainly has n't been the answer to congestion problems . |