Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [art] [num ord] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was never out of that for the first few years I was saved , I was always getting in there , confessing my sins . |
| 2 | Bart Czirr and Gary Jensen worked on this for the next several months in between teaching duties as the new university year had now begun . |
| 3 | I 'll be keeping this for the next few days with me looking after it . |
| 4 | Timber staithes remain at this port on the River Tyne , some of the last such structures built in the nineteenth century as wharves for unloading coal from the railway on to waiting ships . |
| 5 | But when he suddenly took ill and returned to Hollywood to undergo surgery for lung cancer , his son Christopher helped polish up some of the last few scenes . |
| 6 | You will hear more of this in the last half hour of the conference . |
| 7 | Now of course , some people might say well the Iranians er have n't covered themselves with glory one way and another in the last few years , and that of course , is true . |
| 8 | It would not surprise us to see something like this over the next few months . ’ |
| 9 | The top lifts at Cairngorm were opened on Friday 23 November with 300–400 earlybirds turning up on each of the first few days . |
| 10 | Each of the next few slides has the same format . |
| 11 | Jackie Aitchison , chairman of the consortium , has spent much of the last few weeks in talks with potential partners . |
| 12 | He looked around the room where she had spent much of the last few years . |
| 13 | In the autumn of 1342 Edward III himself did so , winning over parts of the duchy and leaving Englishmen in many of the castles and garrisons , including Brest , the port destined to remain in friendly hands for much of the next half century or so . |
| 14 | Meanwhile Chris Protheroe , who spent much of the next few months at the massive Boeing plant in Seattle , was trying to discover the origin of the fatigue fracture of the stabilizer rear spar top chord . |
| 15 | Cairns added : ‘ I 've learned so much in the last few weeks and coping with failure and disappointment is one of them . ’ |
| 16 | He had heard ( and drunk ) so much in the last few days that his mind was a haze of impressions and conjectures which refused to sort themselves out or lead in any one direction . |
| 17 | Yet he was often in danger of winning the $55,000 ( £31,250 ) first prize until he found it just too much over the last few miles . |
| 18 | As you say , I wo n't be around much over the next few weeks anyway . ’ |
| 19 | Your next step is to become familiar with all the foods in the second column , Suspect foods , and to make a plan to avoid consuming these for the next few months . |
| 20 | Yes , magnetic units claim success , and we 've reported on many of these in the last few months . |
| 21 | More bird song : willow warbler , wren , robin — all in the first few minutes . |
| 22 | Shortage of resources remains a crucial determinant of standards of care , particularly at long-stay hospitals , and there is little sign that resources will improve much if at all in the next few years . |
| 23 | In the coming year , the Government will also face its greatest crisis over public sector borrowing , having to borrow too much to pay the interest on its debts — the trap that caught so many in the last few years . |
| 24 | Newson and Newson ( 1.3 ) suggest that it is only in this century that questions about how to bring up children have been widely discussed ; hitherto the niceties of different child-rearing philosophies were set aside in the face of a more fundamental dilemma , whether children would survive at all beyond the first few years . |
| 25 | Patsy was a sickly child , growing very little in the first few years of his life . |
| 26 | I have also instituted an inquiry into the running of all children 's home in Wales , and I shall publish the report of that within the next few days . |
| 27 | We did , er , we re we were hopeful , that in the next few months , there would be a full scale debate on the future on this building , and that we as the council , will take some initiative in , in actually the , the renewal of the lease . |
| 28 | We expect to come to a conclusion on that in the next few weeks . |
| 29 | That 's very effective if you 're dealing with factual information which is changing fairly rapidly , and I think we 'll see quite a growth of that in the next few years , but libraries are n't just stores of factual information ; they store a large number of books and articles and they need access to that too , and probably the most typical external use of a computer in libraries and in a university library , academic library , these days is to access the huge stores of information on scientific publishing . |
| 30 | That 's very effective if you 're dealing with factual information which is changing fairly rapidly , and I think we 'll see quite a growth of that in the next few years , but libraries are n't just stores of factual information , they store a large number of books and articles and they need access to that too , and probably the most typical external use of a computer in libraries in a university library , or academic library , these days is to access the huge stores of information on scientific publishing . |