Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] in the [num ord] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At home , amongst his people , Mr Kinnock 's speech provoked the most spontaneous and enthusiastic standing ovation he had received in the last three weeks on the campaign trail . |
| 2 | This quarter the RIBA asked over 300 practices what marketing activities they had undertaken in the last 12 months . |
| 3 | So the tumour , if tumour it was , had grown in the last six months . |
| 4 | Either the tumour in my lung had grown in the last three and a half weeks , in which case it must be even more in evidence , or it had stood still , in which case today 's X-rays must be much the same as the previous ones , or it had diminished . |
| 5 | The government claimed on June 21 that nearly 41,000 people , including 14,000 children , had died in the first four months of 1992 as a result of shortages of food and medicines caused by UN sanctions [ see pp. 38696 ; 38742 ; 38789 ; 38838 ] . |
| 6 | I saw yesterday' in Markstadt a shelter which has beds for 100 of these children ; 42 children had died in the last 24 hours , but these places had been filled up . |
| 7 | Over the whole period , the front on the Right Bank never shifted as much as 1 , OOO yards ; for the Germans , a bitter contrast to the five miles they had advanced in the first four days of the offensive . |
| 8 | In the editorial which he wrote for the last issue , he discussed the general political situation which had provoked in him a depression of spirit so different from anything he had experienced in the last fifty years as " to be a new emotion " ; but he also confessed to a feeling of staleness as editor . |
| 9 | The atmosphere in the tunnel had deteriorated in the last two hours as the cigarette smoke had grown thicker . |
| 10 | According to statistics provided by human rights and business organizations , 1,598 Guatemalans had been murdered , 2,517 had suffered bodily harm and 906 had disappeared in the first six months of 1989 . |
| 11 | The first day I got back to work , my foreman asked me what I had gained in the last twelve weeks . |
| 12 | Quite a few odd things had happened in the last two days and , though this was the first time she 'd admitted it even to herself , she 'd felt vaguely uneasy , threatened , ever since she 'd arrived in Venice . |
| 13 | Nothing had changed in the last three years . |
| 14 | Caroline Whitehead admitted things had improved in the last two weeks , but said there were still problems . |