Example sentences of "[det] [noun] for 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 | ‘ It was a fantastic feeling to be out on that field for the last 10 or 15 minutes , ’ he recalled . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's going to be a key figure at this club for the next three or four years , ’ said the Newcastle boss . |
| 5 | That argument has been very forceful in some countries for the last three or four decades at least . |
| 6 | He 's been active with me in this issue for the last few years , ’ the MP announced . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Despite its demise , we still have to pay this tax for the next two years and can be subject to warrant sales or heavy fines for non-payment . |
| 10 | Mrs Owain Williams , who has been Chairman of this ball for the last three years , looked very pretty in black velvet . |
| 11 | So I have decided to stick my neck out and to make some predictions for the next 30 years . |
| 12 | I expect to see us dominating this event for the next few years . ’ |
| 13 | And I 'll get my accountant to chase your vendor 's elusive accountant and get some figures for the last few months . |
| 14 | Now that you have a goal and some objectives for the next five years , let's concentrate on some more specific objectives for the next year . |
| 15 | The victory maintained the monopoly of British and Irish-trained horses , who have now exported this prize for the last 11 years . |
| 16 | Back on parade , you lot , ’ shouted Sergeant-Major Philpott , and neither man had the breath to speak another word for the next two hours as they were marched up and down , up and down , until Charlie felt that when they eventually stopped his feet must surely fall off . |
| 17 | It is a very great privilege to be chosen to represent this ward for the next three years . |
| 18 | Yes colleagues , what I will do is this , erm no one will be in this Congress for the last three days without knowing the strong feelings on the Timex issue . |
| 19 | That continued with some effort for the next twenty-five years , when I had the good fortune to be introduced to Lady Collins , who had inspired a succession of what was eventually called Fount Books , some reprints of more expensive books , some specially written for her series , both varieties being published in paperback , at the lowest possible price . |
| 20 | He was to hold this position for the next thirty-one years and must therefore be regarded as a founding father of the organization which later became known as MI5 . |
| 21 | trade unionism has been failing in this country for the last fourteen years . |
| 22 | ‘ They 're currently assisting with an inquiry that 's been giving the police quite a few headaches for the last few months . ’ |
| 23 | He said : ‘ I 've been considering how best to answer that question for the last twenty minutes . |
| 24 | Shire Counties fared just as strangely , with both Cumbria and Northumberland being at the extreme low end of the ranking in change among these authorities for the first two years and yet requiring one of the largest increases in the third . |
| 25 | It 's not surprising , therefore , that with all this emphasis upon grading the members of this department have not got around to experimenting with self-assessment , although both felt they might try and introduce something along these lines for the next fourth year . |
| 26 | I intend to keep the fry in a number of these nets for the first few weeks of their lives and feed them on newly hatched brine shrimp . |
| 27 | Sergeant Nafi is a Turkish Cypriot policeman Who has accompanied these patrols for the last fourteen years . |
| 28 | The necessary bond issue to restrain liquidity will commit the government to paying high rates on these bonds for the next twenty years or so . |
| 29 | The £95m improvement in non-performing loans would pay for these allowances for the next 100 years . |
| 30 | He could not see himself chained to these realities for the next 40 or 50 years . |