Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb base] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PAKISTANI authorities have for the first time begun arresting farmers in the North West Frontier Province who have been found planting opium for next year 's harvest . |
| 2 | Wednesday are hoping Manchester United do the Rumbelows Cup and League double , so the two UEFA Cup places available for English clubs go to the second and third teams in Division One . |
| 3 | The move comes in the wake of the British Lions defeat in the first RU Test against the All Blacks . |
| 4 | THE English schools team for the 21st annual home countries schools international at Hull on Saturday includes three Newcastle swimmers . |
| 5 | Yet one study showed that about one in five of all premarital pregnancies occur in the first month of a sexual relationship , and half within the first six months . |
| 6 | Admittedly two Gallic chronicles survive from the fifth century , and the Chronicle of Gregory 's own contemporary Marius of Avenches is a text of utmost importance with regard to the territories once ruled by the Burgundian kings . |
| 7 | Quoted errors refer to the last significant digit ; the r.m.s. phase residual for the least-squares fit was 15μs . |
| 8 | Rangers paid a heavy price for a similar gaols leak in the last round and now only a win in Turkey can take United through . |
| 9 | Contemporary blueprints focus on the next three years , and their targets are modest , if not downright pessimistic . |
| 10 | Most of the historic buildings stem from the 18th Century when they were town houses for the more prosperous traders . |
| 11 | However , the technology is moving very fast and , as pen computers come into common usage , prices will fall as dramatically as the prices of conventional computers have over the last couple of years . |
| 12 | Despite these promises there was no significant improvement in Peru 's human rights record in the first year of the new government . |
| 13 | His only concern right now was to board the Berne-bound goods train within the next few minutes . |
| 14 | And these reduced payments continue for the next 3 years — as you can see from the chart below . |
| 15 | Cork go through to face Turkish champions Galatasaray in the first round proper of the European Cup . |
| 16 | Leonard , who plays more golf in the summer than bowls , partners Irish international senior skip and Lisnagarvey club mate Noel Graham in their bid to win the Irish pairs title for the first time since the brilliant Fisher and Ringland combination won it for the Lisburn club in 1970 . |
| 17 | Is the Minister aware that eight times as many houses were built under the previous Labour Government than those doctored figures show for the last financial year ? |
| 18 | The introduction of bargaining and the capacity to negotiate collective agreements or ‘ convenios ’ , although still closely controlled , gave the company councils a genuine industrial relations function for the first time and encouraged the workers ' commissions ' strategy of working through the official system and putting forward candidates to company council elections . |
| 19 | There was a thin silver ring of the type small girls wear on the fourth finger . |
| 20 | Most numerous surviving examples come from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries . |
| 21 | Most surviving examples date from the eighteenth century , by which time the decoration became increasingly elaborate and stylised . |
| 22 | Even if Morland shareholders do n't accept Green Kings offer within the next fourteen days … |
| 23 | The little border town of Ludlow may well be a twelfth-century example of planning on a smaller and more rudimentary scale , but the most notable examples come from the thirteenth century — Salisbury , New Winchelsea , the five bastide towns laid out by Edward I in North Wales , and part of Kingston-upon-Hull , laid out by Edward from 1293 onwards . |
| 24 | Unix , House believes , will dominate the open systems market for the next five years . |
| 25 | ‘ There are exciting days ahead as the two-year-old classic races loom in the next few months and we could have something hot for next season . ’ |
| 26 | Full-time university preparatory programmes begin on the first Monday of January , April , July and October . |
| 27 | Yet the most sweeping changes and the most fertile inventions have in the last decade come from New York . |
| 28 | South African authorities have for the first time permitted Mr Nelson Mandela to talk by telephone with exiled leaders of the African National Congress from the prison where he is held near Cape Town . |
| 29 | TORBREX Wanderers have done much to keep the Scottish Indoor League championship race open by beating fellow Dundonians Menzieshill for the first time in the league last month . |
| 30 | It has been generally accepted that adenomatous polyps develop in the second and third decade with most affected untreated subjects developing a colorectal carcinoma by the age of 40 years . |