Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] for the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patients were interviewed monthly for the first five months and every three months thereafter . |
| 2 | I have n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing , but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the university and to sort of expand my contacts , and the Meeting House is one of those places which is open to the general public on Sundays for religious worship . |
| 3 | I had n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the University and to sort of expand my contacts . |
| 4 | ‘ At first , I was keen just to get round but having done that for the last three years , I am now seriously looking at winning the race . ’ |
| 5 | If there was disappointment at the 136bhp produced by the 24-valve 1.8-litre V6 , the news that the 2.5-litre version — destined first for the next 626 — slots straight in appeased those who wanted to view the MX-3 as a low cost substitute for Porsche 's 944 . |
| 6 | He was conscious on admission , explained he had felt unwell for the last few days and had intended seeing a doctor today . |
| 7 | With infinite delicacy forget-me-nots and rosebuds , croci and oak leaves are chiselled out of native lime ( grown in the grounds of the palace itself ) and slotted into ancient floral compositions which , but for a discarded cigarette in the grace and favour flats above , could perhaps have remained undisturbed for the next 300 years . |
| 8 | He had been boxing in South Africa for three years and , according to boxing historian Gilbert Odd , had remained unbeaten for the first two years ( 1978 , pp.18–19 ) . |
| 9 | Moulvi ali Zoha , a Rohingya Muslim who arrived in Bangladesh on Monday , told United News , a Bangladeshi news agency , that the soldiers were angered by the Muslims ' breaking open the doors of the mosque , which had been kept locked for the last few months since the Burmese authorities clamped down on the Rohingyas . |
| 10 | He had been held scoreless for the first twenty-five minutes of the game but certainly went to town afterwards ! |