Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] for [art] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have interesting plans for the next few centuries . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Tickets for the whole event are on sale , price £10.00 , from the box-office of the Empire Leicester Square , and we have pairs of free tickets for the first five readers to arrive at the cinema on Sunday morning bearing a copy of The Independent . |
| 5 | This took western European visits for the first eight months of this year to 4.82m , another record . |
| 6 | The overall figures for the first two years are given in table I. There have been a total of 16 positive test results , nine of which were confirmed on a subsequent venous sample , giving an incidence of 1:3802 male births . |
| 7 | In April the Environmental Secretary Michael Howard announced that businesses facing higher rate bills as a result of the introduction of the UBR in 1990 would have their rate increases frozen in real terms for the second successive year . |
| 8 | This year we are investing a record £1000m in science , an increase of seven per cent on last year , and the budget will continue to rise in real terms for the next three years . |
| 9 | The second symptom of change following his long residence at Lyons is this : in later years , but never earlier , Anselm occasionally used the phrase Libertas Ecclesiae , of which Hugh and Gregory VII had been the chief advocates for the last twenty years . |
| 10 | May I appeal for more sixth-form entries for the 14th International Physics Olympiad ? |
| 11 | This biography is not merely content to tell you everything you ever wanted to know about Dickens ( interesting fact : Dickens spoke with a slight ‘ metallic burr ’ in his voice ) ; nor does it stop at telling you everything you never wanted to know about Dickens ( uninteresting fact : there were white Christmases for the first eight years of Dickens ' life ) ; it goes so far , as with that unidentified novel , as to let you know when it can not tell you something . |
| 12 | ROBERT OWEN , a largely unconsidered left-hander from Avon , became a surprise semi-finalist in the British National Championships for the second successive year at Newcastle yesterday . |
| 13 | Mr Lamont has also put his mark on Tory budgets for the next three years , regardless of whether he remains Chancellor . |
| 14 | However , second-period constants for the first two variants of the model are imprecisely estimated . |
| 15 | Once one budget round is over in March , the chief executive and the chief officers ' group will prepare papers for the policy and resources committee identifying key issues for deeper analysis , possible priorities for the next financial year , and areas for major economies . |
| 16 | The magazine carries an interview with the Princess 's favourite clairvoy ant , Irish psychic Betty Palko , of Surbiton , Surrey , who has given Diana spiri tualist sessions for the last five years . |
| 17 | She had heard raised voices for the last two hours , ever since she and Peter had arrived , and she was miserably aware that it was all her fault . |
| 18 | THE smart navy uniform of the Alresford Quadrilateral Division of St. John Ambulance were exchanged last Saturday for clown costumes and brilliant wigs for the third annual bed-push to raise funds . |
| 19 | The nettle-rash got somewhat better in time , but it continued to bother him at regular intervals for the next 20 years . |
| 20 | Under the deal , S & N will continue to sell and distribute Nivea to existing customers for the next 10 years . |
| 21 | Realism has held sway in International Relations for the last forty years . |
| 22 | He appointed a German-born Harvard professor of international relations , Henry Kissinger , as special adviser on National Security Affairs , and these two men dominated American international relations for the next six years . |
| 23 | The decline in pre-tax profits for the first six months of 1990 ranged from 55.1 per cent for Nomura Securities , the largest trader , to 74.2 per cent for Nikko and Yamaichi Securities . |
| 24 | BASF blamed the high costs of restructuring for a 16 per cent fall in pre-tax profits for the first nine months of 1991 , from DM 2336m ( £1 = DM2.85 ) to DM 1962m . |
| 25 | If America continues to produce municipal solid waste at present rates for the next 1,000 years , the whole lot will still be containable in a space 100 yards deep and 30 miles square . |
| 26 | The top rated American TV programme has been beguiling children for the last 13 years . |
| 27 | Employees are paid at normal rates for the first 40 hours and are guaranteed a minimum of 35 hours . |
| 28 | The 2nd cellos here play in unison with the double basses for the first six bars , and after that in the octave above , the double basses being more effective if kept in the lower octave . |
| 29 | The provisional dates for the next two academic years are : |
| 30 | Our automatic knitting machine , for example , has full orders for the next five years . |