Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] for the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Cooney said the reason Northern Ireland had received only £1.04bn European funding for the next seven years , while the Republic got £7.8bn , was because the province did not have its own negotiators in Brussels . |
| 2 | Wales were convinced that they were one up on Scotland in having already experienced Joel Dume in their England match , while the Sassenachs ' top brass reckoned Scotland would be at a definite disadvantage for the first 20 minutes . |
| 3 | It says a great deal for Saxon resilience that the Sussex settlements do not seem to have reverted to wholesale waste , and the pressure was greatly liked in 1017 when Cnut was elected king of England and the country passed under a Scandinavian aegis for the next half century or so . |
| 4 | The troubles which surrounded the bishop 's authority in the 1570s were matched by growing economic uncertainty for the next eighty years or so . |
| 5 | ‘ I have interesting plans for the next few centuries . |
| 6 | BGS provided much of the logistical support for the first international conference arranged under the auspices of IGCP Project 294 , Very Low Grade Metamorphism , which was held at the University of Manchester , 5–6 July 1990 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Just imagine him standing by the side of you , with his hands crossed before him in a Miss Mollyish style , his intended bow half a courtsey , his fat arms and legs assisting , as in duty bound ; his side glances at you every ten seconds , while he softly , sweetly and insinuatingly informs you — that he has made the arts his peculiar study for the last eight years , and that he flatters himself , by his unremitting study he has greatly contributed to their improvement ; that he came to Ambleside for that purpose ( 't is a great big lie — he came solely to get a living for himself and family , but he is too proud to acknowledge this ) and hopes that the time has been employed with equal advantage to the arts and to himself . ’ |
| 10 | The image of the disastrous goalkeeper has haunted Scottish football for the last 30 years . |
| 11 | WASHINGTON , D.C. After the most highly publicised recruitment process in the history of American museums , the National Gallery of Art 's Board of Trustees announced on 28 April that Earl A. Powell III will take over from departing director J. Carter Brown , who has led the fifty-one year old institution for the last twenty-three years . |
| 12 | Students in possession of any Morrissey records are charged a higher rate of interest on their college loans • A hitman is hired to hit the Hit Man and Her as well as all the bloody dancers ( especially that git who 's been wearing the same crappy wig for the last five mindbendingly-dull years ) . |
| 13 | Reports also suggested that the delegation 's visit had been timed to coincide with the period marking the start of US budgetary procedures allocating foreign assistance for the next financial year . |
| 14 | Mohammed has a son , Mustapha , who was a lively boy for the first eight years of his life , then some cerebral bug hit him . |
| 15 | I think I 'm probably drawing too many parallels between the serious situation and the pop situation , but certainly no doubt that English pop for the last twenty years has been pre-eminent in Europe , and still is . |
| 16 | PIPPA Nolan completed her hat-trick at Poplar Park yesterday when , riding Heron 's Flight , she won the main class at this popular event for the third successive year . |
| 17 | This part of Enfield has those yellow sodium lamps that have that delicate rosy glow for the first few minutes after they are switched on . |
| 18 | He invited to Scotland the English architect-author Robert William Billings whose Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland provided the source book for the Scottish baronial movement for the next 40 years . |
| 19 | It is important to notice that in terms of ideas , the major influences on the British economy for the last hundred years have all been thoroughly secular — Matthew Arnold 's Hellenism , the Webbs ' egalitarianism and Keynes 's immoralism . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , Britain has been steering in the direction of low-tax economy for the last ten years . |
| 21 | Regrettably this manuscript has been lost within the British Library for the last twenty years , and studies of it at present have to be based on photographic records . |
| 22 | In this state of affairs , the electorate is presented with a clear choice between alternative programmes and parties for government in a way that enables the electorate to choose the government and the broad drift of public policy for the next 5 years . |
| 23 | As part of a five-year probation , Griffin must not leave the jail-like clinic for the first six months . |
| 24 | Having been employed now for British Gas for the last twenty five years er , I 've got seventeen years of pensionable service , which has only just been negotiated through the G M B since nineteen eighty to nineteen ninety three and now it is probably one of the better pensions , company pension schemes , in the country . |
| 25 | The relationship between society and the state has been a central concern of western political and social thought for the last four hundred years , one crucially bound up with attempts to understand and evaluate the character of new social , political , economic and intellectual forms associated with the development of a capitalist world economy . |
| 26 | I 've erm , returned to work contracting and in fact , at Commercial Union for the last three years . |
| 27 | The introduction of Chinese practices and ideas continued on a lesser scale for the next eight centuries . |
| 28 | GEC Ferranti and the managing director of its Scottish operation for the last five years , Ron Dunn , are to part company , writes Marcello Mega . |
| 29 | Capital letter for the first one full stop at the end that 's the main point . |
| 30 | 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 . |