Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] for the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That argument has been very forceful in some countries for the last three or four decades at least . |
| 2 | So I have decided to stick my neck out and to make some predictions for the next 30 years . |
| 3 | And I 'll get my accountant to chase your vendor 's elusive accountant and get some figures for the last few months . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ They 're currently assisting with an inquiry that 's been giving the police quite a few headaches for the last few months . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Sergeant Nafi is a Turkish Cypriot policeman Who has accompanied these patrols for the last fourteen years . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The £95m improvement in non-performing loans would pay for these allowances for the next 100 years . |
| 12 | He could not see himself chained to these realities for the next 40 or 50 years . |
| 13 | These were solid leather and weighed so much that , not surprisingly , we were allowed only a further 9lb each to include all essentials for the next six days and five nights . |
| 14 | Their armament consisted , as did that of almost all battleships for the next two decades , of four big guns ( 12-inch in this case ) mounted in two pairs and a secondary broadside battery of half-a-dozen 6-inch . |
| 15 | ON MONDAY the Politburo decided to ban all strikes for the next 15 months . |
| 16 | I 've given him an anti-tetanus injection and told him not to shave over those scratches for the next few days . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ What might I not have done if I 'd had my own clubs for the first two rounds ? ’ |
| 18 | Erm the economic development unit of the borough , Mr Allenby , should know more about it than me , but they have done studies of the firms in Harrogate that can be expected to seek relocation within the borough as they sort themselves out over the next five years , and erm their own calculations for the next five years is more than the county 's whole calculation for the next fifteen years , which suggested to us again that there was a problem about the understanding that the county had on the matter of relocations within Harrogate compared with what was going on locally . |
| 19 | Now that idea was to get everybody together and erm because there have been certain members of the staff which have n't been looked at for a period of time they 've escaped the net as it were in the last couple of times and it seems that we 've had the same guys for the last three years and some have erm |
| 20 | MINERS at Monktonhall colliery have not been paid any wages for the last seven weeks in an effort to ease the venture 's cash-flow problems , it was revealed last night . |
| 21 | It would be able to accommodate 150,000 drums of radiocative material accumulated in Taiwan since 1979 , as well as low-level waste produced by both governments for the next three years . |
| 22 | Examples of this sort are in direct contrast to what has been , in effect , the subconscious attitude of most geologists for the last hundred or more years . |
| 23 | I mean , they move into a mansion , they 'll need both salaries for the next thousand years ! ’ |