Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The document , which was leaked to The Ecologist magazine , also states that the proportion of failures has multiplied by two and a half times over the last 10 years . |
| 2 | Finally , proceed in the last few minutes to the last two of the seven stages — IL and E. |
| 3 | The government argued that ‘ if real progress is to be made in tackling some of the major concentrations of problems , special efforts must be focused on a few cities in the next few years ’ ( HMSO , 1977 , p. 16 ) . |
| 4 | That argument has been very forceful in some countries for the last three or four decades at least . |
| 5 | We had quite a few visitors over the next few days and Amin , particularly , was very encouraging . |
| 6 | ONLY a few days after the fourth Conservative victory in a row , it is slightly depressing to read that health authorities have allocated millions and millions of extra pounds to a campaign to persuade family practitioners to hand out free condoms to their patients , whether or not they are at high risk of contracting the new American disease . |
| 7 | So I have decided to stick my neck out and to make some predictions for the next 30 years . |
| 8 | And I 'll get my accountant to chase your vendor 's elusive accountant and get some figures for the last few months . |
| 9 | ‘ There are going to be some changes in the next few weeks . |
| 10 | Indeed very few presidents in the last half century have accomplished much in the way of substantial policy change . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Erm , now I can produce some variants on the next few figures , they , this is the one in the third paragraph which says that two thousand eight hundred , er took two eight nine one two , er , hours would be needed this year , that is working on the commissions erm current estimate of six percent of complaints going to stage two , erm , the reality in York is that seven point five percent are going to stage two , and if one took account of that reality , and I 'm bound to say that in in estimating terms we do n't , but if one did take in reality that would push that figure for this year up to thirty thousand four hundred and forty nine . |
| 13 | There are few examples of the last two phases , primarily because we can not specify unambiguously the user problem to be solved — beyond very simple situations . |
| 14 | She was a good twelve years older than me , but allowing for that , I 'd seen myself look not much better some mornings in the last few months , my skin blotchy , my eyes shadowed and swollen , my lips pale and dry-looking , my hair lifeless and uncombed . |
| 15 | Young Charles is one of several up and coming teenagers in the Halkyn team along with Gareth Jacobs and Gareth Thomas , while there are a few others in the second eleven hoping for a first team chance . |
| 16 | ‘ They 're currently assisting with an inquiry that 's been giving the police quite a few headaches for the last few months . ’ |
| 17 | In contrast to this extensions within the last ten years or so have all been done in cheaper , light weight breeze blocks . |
| 18 | This can and must be done through the imposition , by the Secretary of State , of a statutory duty on MPAs to review such permissions over the next four years . |
| 19 | The question of the birth rate was to be more crucial in the years after the Education Act , in the debates around the Royal Commission on Population , which reported in 1948–49 , but the existence of the commission itself from 1943 demonstrates public and official concern with such ideas in the first few years of the war . |
| 20 | Use your sharp secateurs to trim such stems to the first next bud , as if you were pruning , where the wound will heal quickly . |
| 21 | A number of attempts were made to introduce such courses in the next few years , but as experiments in applied anthropology they were all failures . |
| 22 | We should introduce such systems within the next five years , and we need to purchase the necessary hardware and software soon , in order to begin the evaluation and development phases . |
| 23 | We need to be developing such systems within the next five years , and we need to purchase the necessary hardware and software soon , so as to begin the evaluation and development phases . |
| 24 | Let's say that erm I was these contracts within the first ten days . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | We shall examine the nature of these accounts during the next two chapters . |
| 27 | All of these variables except the last two , I contend , are a positive monotonic function of the total budget of the bureau . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Or again that difference seen the other way round , as in these lines from the last great story , The Dead . |
| 30 | But by far the greater number of paintings to be seen at both these Salons in the first ten years of the century were still sub-Impressionist in character , and it was as part of the final and conclusive reaction against Impressionism that the Cubist and proto-Cubist works exhibited in 1910 were greeted . |