Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [det] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not far distanced from the council , in England at any rate , was Parliament , dominated for much of the fourteenth century by the peerage ; and in that body , too , matters of policy and national finance were frequently discussed , for it was there that kings liked to benefit from the practical experience of men who had taken an active part in war . |
| 2 | Mr Newton made no mention of the future of child benefit , which the Government has frozen for each of the last two years years at £7.25 a week . |
| 3 | The landscapes differed from those of the last day 's walk , and were seen in another mood ; the rain-clouds floated high , the road lay over rocky ridges , the homesteads had an amplitude of stone wall fencing over these exposed seaboard cliffs ; and they were built more compactly to withstand all assaults . |
| 4 | This could be done , and the lord would be in a position to rack-rent , if there was any demand for land , and although this latter condition was not met for much of the fifteenth century , it did apply as the sixteenth century advanced . |
| 5 | Asked if he had been tempted to quit at any time during the past eight days , he raised a smile and a quip : ‘ I 've felt like that for the last two years ! |
| 6 | Prescribed ATs and PS for maths , science and English applied to those in the first year of key stage 1 , and ( with the exception of English ) in the first year of key stage 3 . |
| 7 | Women with their womb-smelling warmth , their talcum powder and milky breasts had seen to that in the first four weeks of life . |
| 8 | He hopes that the cohesion and character which England have shown for most of the last 11 months will bridge the gap in sheer talent which will continue to separate the two teams . |
| 9 | The marks of one day were shown against those of the next , and so on . |
| 10 | Fran walked with him to the door , wishing that she had never agreed to this in the first place . |
| 11 | [ since ] the aim of achieving a strong competitive position in international markets , or at least the concern not to be at a disadvantage in comparison with competitors in other countries was one of the chief arguments advanced by some of the first employers ' associations against proposals for social reforms through protective labour and social legislation . |
| 12 | This school was to have been patronised by some of the first noblemen and gentlemen of the country , and Clark had the fullest assurance that the government would aid and support his venture . |
| 13 | The ASB has not yet pronounced on any of the last three issues ( other than in a very preliminary way for securitisation ) , so the only real test so far is the treatment of extraordinary items , which we will take a look at . |
| 14 | Well presumably you have n't played at all in the last couple of weeks , so it 's so you 're feeling perhaps a little bit rusty about it all ? |
| 15 | Britain 's share of world trade in manufactured goods fell to one third by 1900 and was further reduced in each of the next four decades . |
| 16 | This was a passage of history hardly known even to the ablest scholars or the twelfth-century Renaissance , and very imperfectly known to those of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries who self-consciously implanted the democratic institutions of republican Rome and ancient Athens in their own Florence . |
| 17 | A famous American study indicated that as much as 28% of Medicare expenditure was spent on those in the last year of life . |
| 18 | If more than 30 module names match the wild card search string then you will have to reinvoke the cache with the start string set to that of the 30th module name if you wish to view the other module names . |
| 19 | Superb fresh material can be cut from all of the last five plants . |
| 20 | The government meets three quarters of the costs of section eleven projects , but that 's being cut to half over the next two years . |
| 21 | THE NUMBER of army bands is to be cut by half over the next two years — but all Scottish regimental pipes and drums have escaped the axe . |
| 22 | If you wish to view these you should reinvoke the option with the start date specified as that of the 16th mail message . |
| 23 | For minor members of foreign missions , of whom ambassadors ' secretaries were the most important , gold chains continued during much of the seventeenth century to be a very common form of gift all over Europe . |
| 24 | We should be finished with that in the next ten days . |
| 25 | Additionally , a further ‘ outside ’ course is taken in each of the first two years . |
| 26 | They forgot that mainframe developers have worked on this for the last 20 years . ’ |
| 27 | A pair of bottles of wine will be awarded to each of the first 2,500 entrants whose names are drawn on 5.11.90 . |
| 28 | If a record that is updated or accessed frequently in one time period is likely not to be referenced at all in the next , any analysis breaks down and the equal access assumption is the best guide for design decisions . |
| 29 | Yates was also tested in each of the next five days of the Tour of Belgium as standings leader and each time tested negative . |
| 30 | Surveys along the north-east coast have shown that its numbers have fallen by half over the last decade , to today 's figure of around 100 . |