Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Searles , more than even Redgrave and Pinsent , became the heroes of millions of armchair TV viewers as they came from nowhere to win the coxed pairs in the last three strokes of the race . |
| 2 | The Labour benches had several new members and , dare I suggest , green Councillor , with no memory of the disastrous economic policies of the last Labour Government , or the ensuing distress that it 's huge army of unemployed . |
| 3 | THE LACK of snowfall in most European resorts over the last two winters has made all skiers aware of the advantages of artificial snow-making machinery . |
| 4 | A better understanding of the normal physiology , developmental anatomy , and pathology of the prepuce could prevent the removal of thousands of normal foreskins over the next 20 years . |
| 5 | The ERA became law on 29 July 1988 , though each of its many provisions will come into force at different times over the next few years . |
| 6 | New Internationalist Freepost Mitcham CR4 9AR ( No stamp needed ) Yes Please send me , without obligation , my free copies of the next three issues of the New Internationalist plus the world map and book token . |
| 7 | ‘ I have interesting plans for the next few centuries . |
| 8 | Table 1 shows the overall performance of Scottish exports in the last three years expressed in both current and constant [ 1985 ] prices . |
| 9 | Although the number of species may have been at least approximately the same in marine environments for the last 300 million years or so the kinds of fossils have changed repeatedly , so that , for example , in marine limestones of Silurian age the shelled brachiopods may number dozens of species , whereas in similar looking limestones of Eocene age no brachiopods at all can be found , but there may be as many species of gastropods of kinds unknown in Silurian rocks . |
| 10 | BORIS BECKER disappointed his West German supporters for the second consecutive year when a knee injury forced him to withdraw from the Stuttgart Classic here yesterday . |
| 11 | One such kennel is the Zarstøs Kennel , owned by Mr and Mrs L. and E. Anderson , who have produced some top winners in the last few years , the most famous of which is Int . |
| 12 | The £2.4 million project is part of a £7 million investment in the Drumchapel estate by Scottish Homes over the next 12 months . |
| 13 | Pulse arrival times have been recorded by Taylor and his colleagues over extended periods during the last 15 years . |
| 14 | Lansink is the only rider who has jumped double clear rounds in the first four contests designated for the Everest Challenge . |
| 15 | Yet despite the heartening experiences of the last 199 issues of the magazine , can we really say that we have affected public opinion ? |
| 16 | A study by the OECD tries to forecast what all these extra grey heads mean for public spending in different countries over the next 40 years , assuming that government policies remain unchanged . |
| 17 | Rather belatedly , Crick and Linsley ( 1983 ) estimated that a total of 20 ‘ health effects ’ ( cancer deaths plus hereditary effects in the first two generations ) would have resulted from the accident . |
| 18 | The weight percentage retained on the coarsest sieve is plotted at the appropriate grain diameter , the sum of weight percentages retained in the two coarsest sieves is plotted at the next finer mesh , the cumulative contents of the first three sieves at the next finer mesh and so on until the entire sediment has been accounted for at 100% . |
| 19 | Courtaulds has supplied more than 420,000 composite combat helmets for British troops over the last eight years — all made from ballistic nylon , which replaces the traditional steel . |
| 20 | We find that : ( i ) there is disutility from being unemployed , with individuals disliking unemployment even more after the first three months ; ( ii ) unemployment benefits have no effect on the behaviour of the unemployed individuals after the first three months ; ( iii ) income receipts other than unemployment benefits and earnings have only a very small effect ; ( iv ) the conditional probability of leaving the unemployment spell shows no sign of decreasing with duration for most of the members of our sample , while 50% of the teenage men have an increasing hazard ; ( v ) the effects of unemployment benefits on the expected duration varies with age ; the average elasticity of 0.12 is much smaller than those estimated by NNS and NN , who used the same data set but different models . |
| 21 | Closer to home is the trauma faced by social workers over the last ten years . |
| 22 | Some of the consequences for this group include over 120 spontaneous leukaemias during the next 50 years and an increased risk of genetic disorders in future generations ( Anspaugh et al. , 1988 ) . |
| 23 | After lots of very interesting figures at the first big stopper of the Olympic Eiskanal , the winner was Boris Retzlaf . |
| 24 | The economic and social problems of the second Labour government have already been outlined in the first chapter . |
| 25 | These will be the outstanding problems for theoretical physicists in the next twenty years or so . |
| 26 | If the Plowden Committee had referred therefore to ‘ the social changes of the last thirty years ’ instead of fifteen , they would have been guilty of no inaccuracy . |
| 27 | The Plowden Report on Control of Public Expenditure contained , amongst other nuggets of wisdom , the following sentence which I should like to take as my starting-point : ‘ The social changes of the last fifteen years have altered the incidence of hardship , so that there now may well be excessive social services for some purposes and inadequate ones for others . ’ |
| 28 | Indeed , the reference to ‘ the social changes of the last fifteen years ’ makes it an understatement : for there is not a single social service today which was not framed more than fifteen years ago . |
| 29 | They tracked all the involuntary departures reported in the press of chief executives and chairmen of British firms in the first six months of 1988 . |
| 30 | He gave the pope an account of the evidence that had been brought forward , giving first place , and by far the greatest amount of space , to the testimony of Bede 's Ecclesiastical History , which showed that the archbishops of Canterbury , acting on the authority of Pope Gregory I and his successors , had exercised general authority over the whole of the British Isles during the first hundred and forty years of its existence : they had consecrated bishops for all parts of the country , summoned councils , deposed unworthy bishops , and had been generally responsible for spreading Catholic discipline into Wales and Scotland . |