Example sentences of "[coord] [noun prp] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As in this family , there is some migration of young people from the rural areas to the towns of Northern Ireland but this movement is less than it has been in Scotland or England during the last 40 years . |
| 2 | IC received a report of its cosponsored conference held in Sri Lanka in May , and noted developments towards other meetings to be held in Egypt , India and Botswana over the next 12 months . |
| 3 | What was the upshot for resource allocation of the wrangles between the Electricity Boards and Whitehall in the first ten years of nationalisation ? |
| 4 | Mr Mitterrand praised the people of Leipzig for ‘ having written the history of Europe and Germany in the last few weeks ’ . |
| 5 | Other offices are planned for Italy and Germany in the next few months . |
| 6 | When the Prince moved to a small lodge on the edge of the Steine in the 1780s fashion followed , and Brighton over the next fifty years provided perhaps the ultimate example of the marked contrast between attempts at a classical social order and a barely restrained chaos whose uneasy juxtaposition opened wider chasms in late Georgian society . |
| 7 | Seemed an odd move to sell him and then pay out such big amounts for Wallace and Rocky over the next 2 years . |
| 8 | It 's been Huey , George , Ralph and Bert for the last few days , liquid laffs ahoy . |
| 9 | Northern Ireland 's experience in Spain and Mexico in the last two World Cups taught them that heat can pose more problems than the opposition for British-based players . |
| 10 | We maintain a high level of capital expenditure to improve productivity and quality in production and packaging , exemplified by the investment of more than 200 million in Scotland and Spain over the next three years . |
| 11 | Certainly , EDS 's flurry of activity in Italy and Spain over the last few months is proof that it had no dire need of BT to capture the interest of new customers and business partners in the southern reaches of Europe . |
| 12 | Gloucester , which saw active service in the Gulf War , will monitor traffic to and from Serbia and Montenegro for the next few months . |
| 13 | More than half the money borrowed by Mexico , Venezuela and Argentina during the last ten years has effectively flowed out the back door , often in the same year or month it flowed in . |
| 14 | There are skinheads who will vote Conservative , Labour , Communist and SDP at the next General Election . |
| 15 | It was reported that about 20,000 refugees fled to Uganda and Zaïre in the last two weeks of January as a result of the fighting . |
| 16 | The defence played against Rush , Clough , Wright , merson and Campbell in the last 2 matches . |
| 17 | They have been pioneered in this country , the United States and Australia over the last few years mainly by individual schools and by some local education authorities . |
| 18 | The category extends from Rambaldi and Winston to the last major survivor of the great Westmore clan , Michael G Westmore , whose credits range from Rocky ( 1976 ) to Roxanne ( 1987 ) by way of 2010 and Mask ( 1985 , Oscar winner ) . |
| 19 | The breathtaking pace of political upheaval in Eastern Europe , the Baltic region and Transcaucasia in the last few weeks of the 1980s has naturally focused international attention on those parts of the Soviet empire lying to the west of the Ural mountains , including those countries which were allotted to Joseph Stalin 's ‘ sphere of influence ’ at the end of the Second World War . |
| 20 | Later in the day , CD regained the lead by beating Auckland at Wanganui by 74 runs — slow left-armer Stu Duff 164 not out , and Mark Douglas following Wright and Patel with the third 99 in a fortnight . |
| 21 | His article outlines the failure of research programmes in Argentina , Peru and Colombia during the last fifty years ( p.27 ) but does not explain it or help us to find a way round the problem . |
| 22 | It is thought that perhaps as many as twenty million have been sold across America and Europe in the last forty years to people anxious to contact dead relatives or to get answers to difficult problems in life . |
| 23 | The Welsh skipper faces an operation on his hernia tomorrow and will miss Wales 's big international clashes with England and France over the next few weeks . |
| 24 | The First Orchestra has recently appeared in venues as far apart as Worcester Cathedral , Dunkeld Cathedral , Huntly Parish Church and the Usher Hall , and also enjoys a number of foreign links which have taken them to Denmark , Bavaria and Italy within the last few years . |
| 25 | He 's gon na be quoting Fry and Laurie for the next ten weeks , like he did |
| 26 | The intellectual challenge to Christianity in Western Europe and America over the last two hundred years has all too often tempted it to retreat into a ghetto ring-fenced by claims about the unassailable insights granted to those with faith . |
| 27 | During the early part of August , the haulier completed all the deliveries to English locations , leaving Bridgend , East Kilbride and Belfast for the last two weeks of August . |
| 28 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has any plans to close or amalgamate rural magistrates courts in England and Wales during the next 12 months . |
| 29 | The project aims to develop a data bank on the origins , career patterns , wealth and creative role of business leaders in England and Wales from the last four decades of the nineteenth century to the generation of business leaders who retired in the 1970s . |
| 30 | But during our conversation even he was forced to concede that besides being unable to entertain he would also have to follow events at Hove and Edgbaston over the next few days through newspapers and television . |