Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | You should be told how to keep that look for the next eight weeks . ’ |
2 | The number of students to be recruited for each field in the next academic year ( the target ) is fixed during the first term of the current year . |
3 | ‘ It was a fantastic feeling to be out on that field for the last 10 or 15 minutes , ’ he recalled . |
4 | State employees will trap and shoot up to 75 per cent of the wolves in a region southwest of Fairbanks and keep numbers to that level for the next few years . |
5 | It is likely that Wimpey-Gilbert will not be the only company to enter this field in the next few years . |
6 | For some part of the next three decades he was chaplain in London to Denzil , first Baron Holles of Ifield ( whose will he witnessed in 1670 ) , and to Sir John Maynard [ qq.v. ] , both parliamentarian veterans . |
7 | In India , the Bombay Stock Exchange is to use 50 Sun servers to support some 3,000 personal computers running alongside an ICL mainframe to automate its trading floor — the deal is worth a total of some $30m over the next 12 months : Sun 's contribution is being handled by its distributor Wipro Infotech . |
8 | The new French minister of industry , Gerard Longuet , seems anxious to hurry along the privatisation of Compagnie des Machines Bull SA , which has cost the French government some $2,500m over the last 10 years , according to Les Echos . |
9 | We now stock upwards of 300 titles , admittedly mostly between September and December , but they can generate very significant sales at a crucial time of year — and none of us can afford to ignore a product range that has increased in sales by some 300% in the last three years . |
10 | Another change within the last 200 years is in the field of reproductive biology . |
11 | Many of these hoped to start this course in the next academic session ( 46% of enquirers ) and 58% of those who said they wanted to do a course in the future had made enquiries about it . |
12 | The document , which was leaked to The Ecologist magazine , also states that the proportion of failures has multiplied by two and a half times over the last 10 years . |
13 | Finally , proceed in the last few minutes to the last two of the seven stages — IL and E. |
14 | Use the stand alone system so it gets the date that we 're going to collect it , it can say all the things that we 've said , it 's , you know , we wrote to you some time ago and , and er we , we did n't get the money if you do n't , as you said , if you do n't send us this money we 're gon na sounds like a threat does n't it , if you do n't send this money within the next three months we 'll automatically collect it together with your regular premium due on the date |
15 | Another difficulty of the last 11 or 12 years is that we have always faced west , towards the United States of America . |
16 | The government argued that ‘ if real progress is to be made in tackling some of the major concentrations of problems , special efforts must be focused on a few cities in the next few years ’ ( HMSO , 1977 , p. 16 ) . |
17 | ‘ He 's going to be a key figure at this club for the next three or four years , ’ said the Newcastle boss . |
18 | ‘ Have you seen anyone around this warehouse in the last six months ? ’ |
19 | Six more contestants we need , the only rule is that you must n't have played a phone-in competition on this programme in the last four weeks . |
20 | So if you 'd like to play the game the only rule is that you must n't have played a phone in competition on this programme in the last four weeks . |
21 | A lifelong Conservative who has always been politically active , and who has fought this seat in the last two local elections , Margaret lives in Headington Ward , and understands , and cares about the local issues . |
22 | He retained this seat in the next four Parliaments , working for local bills in 1621 and 1624 , but it is clear that the ‘ country ’ for which he spoke was more often Sussex than Essex . |
23 | you 've done at least some work in the last two weeks ' maths lessons . |
24 | That argument has been very forceful in some countries for the last three or four decades at least . |
25 | The CASE projects aim at least to double this proportion in the first three years of secondary schooling by developing new teaching skills in science teachers . |
26 | He 's been active with me in this issue for the last few years , ’ the MP announced . |
27 | I can remember I 've been on this Gipsy Working Party since you lost control of this Council for the last five years and you 've fought tooth and nail all the way down the line to resist every gipsy site that came in you 've used every manoeuvre that you could possibly do to resist it . |
28 | We had quite a few visitors over the next few days and Amin , particularly , was very encouraging . |
29 | I 'm highly unlikely to find myself a husband and produce another child within the next eighteen months . ’ |
30 | The world 's governments will meet in Rome this December for the first global food conference for nearly 20 years , and it is hoped that it will produce the nutritional blueprint for the next century . |