Example sentences of "[det] [noun] for the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They had a son but divorced eight years later , and did not see each other for the next 45 years , until January when they met at an 80th birthday party of Dougan 's sister Gwendoline . |
| 32 | The trio were so utterly absorbed in each other for the next half hour that none of them noticed Rose Williams watching them from some little distance , her face screwed into a sour smile of bitterness and longing . |
| 33 | ‘ We 're going to be close to each other for the next few days , perhaps longer , and I refuse to keep calling you Miss Adams ; Claudia is a charming name . ’ |
| 34 | However , as we shall have to live with each other for the next few months in an electioneering atmosphere , I refer hon. Members to ’ Erskine May ’ on moderation in language . |
| 35 | But since we 're stuck to each other for the next several hours — ’ |
| 36 | Each night for the next two or three weeks , the army makes another long march through the forest until the grubs , which have been feeding voraciously , are fully grown and begin to turn into pupae . |
| 37 | These were solid leather and weighed so much that , not surprisingly , we were allowed only a further 9lb each to include all essentials for the next six days and five nights . |
| 38 | Patients were instructed to take no alcohol and to collect all urine for the next 24 hours . |
| 39 | Their armament consisted , as did that of almost all battleships for the next two decades , of four big guns ( 12-inch in this case ) mounted in two pairs and a secondary broadside battery of half-a-dozen 6-inch . |
| 40 | ON MONDAY the Politburo decided to ban all strikes for the next 15 months . |
| 41 | Each morning for the next ten days he bore this precious vessel to the examinations balls and poured a measured quantity of the contents on to pages of ruled quarto . |
| 42 | I 've given him an anti-tetanus injection and told him not to shave over those scratches for the next few days . ’ |
| 43 | I wrote to my parents at that address for the next three years . |
| 44 | This type of locomotive was repeated by him after he transferred to the Caledonian Railway in 1882 and was further developed by his successors on that railway for the next thirty years . |
| 45 | She had enough money for the next few days , and she was n't hungry yet . |
| 46 | I 've had the same look for the last 7–8 years and during that time I 've put on some weight . |
| 47 | ‘ What might I not have done if I 'd had my own clubs for the first two rounds ? ’ |
| 48 | Crusaders were pinned back in their own half for the first 20 minutes as the visiting pack was dominant . |
| 49 | CAMRA has launched its own manifesto for the next General Election with policies to be presented to candidates of all parties for action in the next parliament . |
| 50 | Such an event normally takes us to Dartmoor or Exmoor , has run on the same basis for the last few years and is planned to the last minute — so why the meeting ? |
| 51 | There were a lot of people there who felt seriously about what they were fighting for but people went there for a good fight really , they had n't been able to show any aggression for the last two years . |
| 52 | They took the same tube for the first few stops . |
| 53 | Erm the economic development unit of the borough , Mr Allenby , should know more about it than me , but they have done studies of the firms in Harrogate that can be expected to seek relocation within the borough as they sort themselves out over the next five years , and erm their own calculations for the next five years is more than the county 's whole calculation for the next fifteen years , which suggested to us again that there was a problem about the understanding that the county had on the matter of relocations within Harrogate compared with what was going on locally . |
| 54 | Even if we stopped using all CFCs today , depletion of the ozone layer — the earth 's barrier against cancer-causing ultra violet radiation — would carry on at the same rate for the next 50 years . |
| 55 | So the crucial question is not whether party programme A is preferred to party programme B ; the issue is whether we want to keep the same government for the next five years or whether we want a different one . |
| 56 | Now that idea was to get everybody together and erm because there have been certain members of the staff which have n't been looked at for a period of time they 've escaped the net as it were in the last couple of times and it seems that we 've had the same guys for the last three years and some have erm |
| 57 | MINERS at Monktonhall colliery have not been paid any wages for the last seven weeks in an effort to ease the venture 's cash-flow problems , it was revealed last night . |
| 58 | We 've been saying the same thing for the last three years and I 've got the minutes here to prove it . |
| 59 | You can see on the Covermaster , on an escalating plan , it 's twenty percent each year for the first four years . |
| 60 | In the next parliament , which assembled in September 1337 , the commons granted a tenth and a fifteenth to be levied each year for the next three years . |