Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And two companies with strong Australian transport interests , Britannic Shipping and Playmaker , have agreed sponsorship deals worth nearly £100,000 a year between them for the next three years . |
| 2 | Erm and if it 's not it 's er I 'm not going to deny the fact that some people say you know this has been good for me for the last eighteen months erm I 'm er I 'm used to being self employed I 'm going to stay that way but I 'm looking at other avenues . |
| 3 | The hill that was waiting for me across the next two miles of nothingness was typical of those I had climbed that day — no more than a hundred feet high , with a gradual slope . |
| 4 | Little did I imagine that such a move was destined for me within the next two years . |
| 5 | ‘ We get a lot of donations from relatives and friends of people we have nursed here and we have kept a record of them over the last few years , ’ said Mrs Deidre Shaw , administrator for the appeal . |
| 6 | Others are saying , a lot of them for the last few years have been saying , this is ridiculous . |
| 7 | We read , for instance , that Spalding ‘ has now a very neat and generally modern appearance , having more than doubled its population and buildings since 1811 , and most of its ancient houses and public buildings have been rebuilt ; many of them during the last twenty-five years ’ . |
| 8 | In all a total of 45 women are recorded as having re-applied for union membership between 1919 and 1934 ( 20 of them in the first two years , 1919 and 1920 ) and this is probably an underestimate . |
| 9 | He had seven birdies in his best opening round so far , six of them in the first 12 holes , but had trouble getting properly aligned on his long shots . |
| 10 | " Then I must have applied to half of them in the last four years . " |
| 11 | I had it on my schedule to see quite a lot of you over the next few weeks , Folly . |
| 12 | I will probably contact many of you over the next few months to try to establish the working conditions in various areas and develop future strategies accordingly . |
| 13 | But the marriage plan for Matilda was now dead , and within a few months her father was killed in a border skirmish , and we hear no more of her for the next seven years . |
| 14 | Julia tried to obey , as she tried to do everything he demanded of her over the next few days and as she tried to keep her misery and pain and fear from all of them . |
| 15 | He had grown fond of her in the last few days . |
| 16 | ‘ Allocate a man to take care of him for the next few days until his tutor , T'ai Cho , joins him . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You 're right into the teeth of it over the first five holes . |
| 18 | All junior pupils will be involved in the planting and each of the five school houses will be responsible for a section , taking care of it for the next few years . |
| 19 | I do n't know exactly how long , but I 've been aware of it for the last eighteen months . |
| 20 | ( But the new tube was less sure of itself , and revised versions of it during the next few months whiplashed over the map of south London like a demented snake . ) |
| 21 | So , you know we 've got a week now to maybe watch the T V tonight , watch the goals again tomorrow , enjoy what we 've just done , but erm some hard work ahead of it in the next few weeks . |
| 22 | Their needs alone would have been enough reason — were enough — for a number of us over the next three to four years to stay in a male organization , with largely male resources for mainly male callers and to join with some of those men to change it . |
| 23 | I had to practically bite my knuckles to keep my hands off you for the last three weeks , and I did it because of your innocence ! |
| 24 | I walked back behind him for the last several hundred yards , and was shocked at the sheer , mindless , bestial ferocity of the crowd . |
| 25 | If the Labour party is abdicating the right to retain foreign and defence policy in this country , it is not speaking for the country , and the Government will exploit that against it in the next general election . |
| 26 | I think you 'd better work with me for the next few days , or if I 'm not here , then with one of my staff nurses . |
| 27 | You 've put up with me for the last ten days . ’ |
| 28 | with them during the next two |
| 29 | But on the other hand I 'm pleased the reasons they 've given for the delay are the points we 've been raising with them over the last two years . |
| 30 | I tell them to take their time ; it is hoped that the dog will be with them for the next ten years or more — what are a few minutes ? |