Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1928 the Medical Officer reported that maternity and child welfare had developed remarkably over the last two years . |
| 2 | Divinity degrees require some study in each of the departments listed below in the first two years of the course . |
| 3 | Now the white painted bookcases which reached to the ceiling were filled only on the first two shelves with incongruous modern volumes with used-looking dust-covers . |
| 4 | Bowater 's retiring chairman , Norman Ireland , described the purchase as an ‘ exhilarating opportunity ’ and said trading in the last four months of 1992 had been good and this had carried on into the first two months of this year . |
| 5 | Despite this apparent lack of interest at high level , detail work must have been carried on during the next two years , for Gordon Thomas , together with the signatories of the memorandum , took out two patents relating to the lift . |
| 6 | What has been er what has been pleasing is that a n a number of the people who 've come in on the last two or three years or so er are younger people , people in their er late teens or twenties . |
| 7 | Do n't forget — the £22,250 Extra Prize ( which you may already have won ) and the £27,750 ‘ Early Bird' Prize can be claimed only within the next SEVEN days . |
| 8 | The bill , the most draconian to have been passed by any state , prohibited abortion in cases other than to save a woman 's life or in cases of rape ( if reported within five days ) or incest , where abortion would be permitted only in the first 13 weeks . |
| 9 | This procedure is depicted above for the first three values of the repeated median smooth , shown in full in figure 9.9 : Thus 47 is the value to be smoothed , the skip mean 43.5 is the mean of 40 and 47 and the smoothed value 45.2 is the rounded mean of 47 and 43.5 . |
| 10 | Their numbers have dropped noticeably in the last five years and very dramatically since the 1880s , when 70 per cent of all cattle in the Netherlands were Groningens while Friesians represented only 18 per cent and were mainly restricted to Friesland and Drenthe . |
| 11 | Although things have picked up in the last six months , the work is more likely to be restructuring , rights issues or corporate rescues . |
| 12 | When it comes to clothes and the British high street , I think the standard has dropped radically in the last five years . |
| 13 | As well as contributing to Oslobodjenje Camo is editor-in-chief of Nedjelja , a weekly magazine published by the same company , but which has n't come out for the last three months . |
| 14 | It 's the type of client , life assurance clients are the type of client where the commission 's all come out in the first four years . |
| 15 | Extensive geological and geophysical surveys were carried out over the next two years , and the governments negotiated with an international group of banks interested in financing the construction of the tunnel . |
| 16 | A Declaratory Order covering 270 acres was proposed with a view to designating extensively war-damaged land , subject to compulsory purchase ; this was required for essential improvements to be carried out over the next 15 years . |
| 17 | Follow-up visits will be carried out over the next three weeks , to obtain additional information on equipment , software , and your immediate working environment . |
| 18 | The collection comes from almost fifty digs carried out over the last twenty years . |
| 19 | The collection comes from almost fifty digs carried out over the last twenty years . |
| 20 | A dynamic study of the posterior lung fields was carried out for the first 15 minutes after injecting the radiolabelled leucocytes . |
| 21 | As Area Manager Martin Ellis said ‘ Adele has accomplished a great deal in her current position of Area Field Biologist , not least in her QA work carried out in the last two years , her Mouse-Alert sales and the careful co-ordination of Sentinel contracts ’ . |
| 22 | For those who prefer scientific evidence for the effects of essential oils on the mind , let me draw your attention to some experiments carried out in the last ten years by John Steele ( an American research worker ) and Maxwell Cade , a British biophysicist . |
| 23 | It had been started with two friends by Adrian Cotterell , Polytechnic journalism drop-out , and although the two friends had themselves dropped out after the first twelve months Cotterell had managed to keep enough people together for the place to stay in business . |
| 24 | This is not to undervalue the change in judicial thinking which has come about in the last 30 years . |
| 25 | Bankings which have been torn apart over the last two centuries and then rebuilt and rebuilt again may have to be moved back to take the sting out of the pile-driving force of the river in spate . |
| 26 | However trends in the activity rates of men and women have differed significantly over the last 15 years . |
| 27 | NCD claims to have shipped 25.9% of the 96,610 X-terminals thought to have been installed worldwide during the first six months of this year . |
| 28 | AMNESTY in Britain has grown tremendously over the last four or five years , but what has this meant for our effectiveness as a campaigning organisation ? |
| 29 | Swindon has grown economically in the last 15 years and the unemployment level was down to a record low 2 to 3 years ago . |
| 30 | But wherever they end up , there 's a good chance they 'll be moved on again in the next few weeks — 28 groups have been moved on in the last 18 months and the County Council is moving on another group from Kirtlington , north of Oxford tomorrow . |