Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] 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 | He 's been active with me in this issue for the last few years , ’ the MP announced . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mrs Owain Williams , who has been Chairman of this ball for the last three years , looked very pretty in black velvet . |
| 9 | I expect to see us dominating this event for the next few years . ’ |
| 10 | The victory maintained the monopoly of British and Irish-trained horses , who have now exported this prize for the last 11 years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is a very great privilege to be chosen to represent this ward for the next three years . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | trade unionism has been failing in this country for the last fourteen years . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ I 've been considering how best to answer that question for the last twenty minutes . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But since we 're stuck to each other for the next several hours — ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Patients were instructed to take no alcohol and to collect all urine for the next 24 hours . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I wrote to my parents at that address for the next three years . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She had enough money for the next few days , and she was n't hungry yet . |
| 29 | I 've had the same look for the last 7–8 years and during that time I 've put on some weight . |
| 30 | Crusaders were pinned back in their own half for the first 20 minutes as the visiting pack was dominant . |