Example sentences of "[det] [verb] in the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was much to do in the next few days . |
| 2 | Our four hypertension related male deaths all occurred in the first 12 years of the 21 years of follow up , suggesting their treatment was probably begun too late . |
| 3 | All appear in the first eight lines : |
| 4 | The album is preceded by the single ‘ Rain ’ , with a demonic American preacher , a Gambian thunderstorm and the bells of Oxford 's Merton college all segued in the first 20 seconds . |
| 5 | The global left ventricular ejection fraction and rapid ST segment resolution did not differ significantly between those treated in the first 2 hours and those treated later . |
| 6 | In our study , all strictures appearing in the first decade and 82% of those appearing in the first two decades of disease were benign , while most ( 61% ) arising after 20 years or more were malignant . |
| 7 | As with NAEP , the science tests exhibit the most imaginative types of questions , although Michael Marland praised those used in the first secondary language survey . |
| 8 | Only those scored in the last 60 seconds probably . |
| 9 | An adaptation to Labov 's methods rather differently motivated from those discussed in the last three sections may be found in Paul Kerswill 's recent work in Durham City ( 1987 ) . |