Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could get the two goals we need in five minutes or in the last 30 minutes . |
| 2 | Sears has been busily redirecting its 1,500 strong chain away from traditional sites and in the next 18 months a further 100 to 150 net closures are likely . |
| 3 | No proposals were actually adopted but it was agreed to examine them further in working groups and at the fourth ASEAN summit due to be held in Singapore on Jan. 27-28 , 1992 . |
| 4 | What is there to say er what 's not been said already yesterday , today , last year 's meetings and in the last ten years . |
| 5 | There was more in the pitch than on the opening day for the quicker bowlers and with the second new ball Mark Ilott , playing his first game for Essex for a year after serious back problems kept him out of the game last season , was impressively hostile . |
| 6 | The equipment they had at Rhodes hardly justified the risks in getting ashore to use it , but the Commander had improved the original ideas and over the next two years a comprehensive yet simple range of tools would be devised for this survey work . |
| 7 | ‘ We carefully assess our use of intensive care beds and over the last 12 months we have been a little concerned that , at times , they were full , ’ said Mr Murray . |
| 8 | We are the largest independent provider of practical home care to people with HIV/AIDS in the U.K. From 7 regional offices we have provided practical care to over 1000 people in the lat 3 years and in the last 12 months we cared for at least 1 in 5 of those who died of AIDS in the U.K. |
| 9 | Then the judge suspended the sentence , placing him on probation for two years but with the first sixty days to be spent in Los Angeles County Jail . |
| 10 | The forestry commission were once regarded as the covering the country with grand conifers but in the last twenty years they have been changing their ways , they now go half way to square yard their land . |
| 11 | A breed society was formed in 1919 to rescue the remaining 130 cattle and over the next 70 years there was considerable out-crossing to Friesian , Jersey , Shorthorn , White Park and no doubt other breeds as well . |
| 12 | Their quality and spacing is laid down in the Building Regulations but in the last ten years difficulties have arisen over corrosion , not only in those made of mild steel but also in galvanised ties where the zinc coating is defective . |
| 13 | They were not even given their wings and for the next two years , on the ‘ last in last out ’ principle , they had to endure the insufferable tedium of waiting for demobilisation . |
| 14 | It 's an easy , efficient way to clear crop fields and for the last twenty years strict guide-lines were laid down to control it . |
| 15 | Intraoesophageal pH , and the intensity and duration of symptoms ( heartburn , acid regurgitation ) were recorded during infusions and for the next 10 minutes . |
| 16 | ‘ I fought a number of battles but for the last 10 days before we left , because things did n't go too well , I was commanding the rearguard on the Aegean Sea . ’ |