Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the management of CEO Denis Brown , and financially re-structured ( UX No 402 ) , the company has been profitable for the last six quarters and is once again in growth mode , although margins are down and international sales weak . |
| 2 | Lysis , a self-funded company , profitable for the last three years , sells direct in the US and Canada and through resellers in the Pacific Rim and South America . |
| 3 | Doug Williams , a manager in the bank 's insurance group , says the operation has been profitable for the past two years and is already seen as a significant part of Chase 's retail service . |
| 4 | It 's an , a small number of , of viruses which constantly shift , and the WHO organisation which monitors flu viruses around the world , is responsible for seeing that the vaccine is made from strains that are in circulation currently , and , and we 've been getting it right for the last ten years , so I , I think there 'll be no problem this year . |
| 5 | Here the bustle of the centre was muted , the roads narrow between the tall eighteenth-century buildings , each beautifully restored , the walls washed with shades of umber , rust and light blue . |
| 6 | Sabrina opened the top file and leafed through the first few invoices . |
| 7 | The average age at which people marry remained more or less stable for the preceding two centuries until the end of the Second World War , when it began to fall , but there were notable changes in the pattern of childbearing , especially between 1870 and 1930 . |
| 8 | In fact , the revenue has been stable for the last three years . |
| 9 | As regards the cost implications of these shifts , although the over-85s are heavier users of costly services than younger age groups , the heaviest financial cost of the elderly arises from pensions not from services and , to repeat , the total pensionable age group will remain stable for the next two decades . |
| 10 | She felt poorly for about one month but then seemed to recover and felt somewhat stable for the next 6 weeks . |
| 11 | While reporting strong inquiry levels , he said orders were still quiet and warned it would not be possible for the European automated systems business to sustain its 1991 performance this year . |
| 12 | Do you think that it 's possible for the big Italian museums to privatise their subsidiary functions without an advisory body of trustees , if only to assist museum administrators who have little experience of dealing with the commercial side ? |
| 13 | Many course combinations are possible during the first three years , facilitating transfer between these three streams . |
| 14 | I want to remind you os some achievements you have made possible during the past 13 years . |
| 15 | Again , as last week , try to be as physically active as possible during the next 24 hours , avoiding temptation by doing something outside the kitchen . |
| 16 | A single budded standard , or a double where one has failed , can look distinctly lop-sided for the first few years until it has had time to develop — this is the sort of stuff you have to watch out for in the cheap ‘ end of season nursery clearance sales ’ and street markets . |
| 17 | It is always important to find out as much as possible about the normal living conditions of a particular species . |
| 18 | In person and style , he remained the down-to-earth Australian , caustic about the class-ridden antique snobberies of the ‘ poms ’ . |
| 19 | My suggestion is that the evolution of subcutaneous fat in neonates and post-natal depression is an example of co-evolution and what has happened is mothers are programmed to be depressed for the first few days after birth because in primal conditions when remember this is where evolution set the parameters of human behaviour , in primal conditions it would probably pay a mother to test her new-born offspring to see if it could survive , because if it was defective or if it was sickly , or if there was some reason why that baby could n't make it to adulthood and its own reproductive life , that mother should not invest in it , because that 's her reproductive success . |
| 20 | But the shock left me nervous and depressed for the next few days . |
| 21 | It was a matter of time , most steps had been taken , ‘ We are leaving St-Jean to avoid talk ; we shall have to be reasonably discreet for the next few months or so . ’ |
| 22 | At the death , Mike Procter , the South African coach , stood ashen-faced and speechless for a full 10 minutes on the pavilion steps , unable to take in what had just transpired . |
| 23 | His own , now saccharine and anecdotal about the good old days of his childhood , when he had in fact eaten pilchards with a fork out of a tin in silence , day after day , whilst she slept . |
| 24 | Tony said he had felt happier after discharge from hospital and that his father had been less critical and more supportive during the last few days . |
| 25 | Travelling by train from Gatwick Airport to London , I felt sorry for the many foreign visitors struggling to follow the announcements made over the loudspeaker . |
| 26 | I do n't know whether enjoyed it as he was sound asleep for the first 8 miles , but he certainly was n't complaining either — a merciful relief ! |
| 27 | You have been asleep for the past two hours . ’ |
| 28 | Iain Ogilvy McWhirter ( Senior English and Religious Instruction ) had been asleep for the past ten minutes , but Tom Tedder ( Art and Woodwork ) said ‘ Arrgh ’ through closed lips , and that seemed to do well enough . |
| 29 | The doomed one was fragile and childlike between the tall stoic guards who led her to her fate . |
| 30 | ‘ She had been depressed during the last 18 months but I thought she was getting better . |