Example sentences of "[vb base] for the [num ord] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | But you 've got to make a mental leap , because I mean for the last five years , things have been pretty horrible , since eighty seven really , I mean we 've only had the pick up in the last year . |
2 | ‘ Well , exhausted or not , you wo n't be getting much sleep for the next four days . |
3 | There was also still a feeling in the Hollywood colony that as he had established himself as a star he should not play an unattractive character , and , what is more , he would only be the second lead and not appear for the first twenty minutes . |
4 | I asked at the meeting of the city board and I asked on more than one occasion , and did n't get a proper answer , what the labour group intended to do with the three point two million pounds that will build up in reserve say for the next three years . |
5 | How would they like a stranger to be in control of the way they look for the next six months ? ’ |
6 | The causes of this are not entirely clear , but were probably a combination of the increasing costs of warfare ( as the empire came under severe pressure from the barbarians across the Rhine and Danube , and from the Persians in the east ) and of the exhaustion of the Roman mines in Spain , which seem for the first two centuries AD to have provided an important contribution to the difference between Rome 's income ( taxes ) and expenditure ( especially on war ) . |
7 | Unix , House believes , will dominate the open systems market for the next five years . |
8 | And these reduced payments continue for the next 3 years — as you can see from the chart below . |
9 | Following blast at its offices at Charlemont Place in Armagh , spokesman Paul Jackson said students should not telephone the board or call for the next two weeks until the backlog of work has been cleared . |
10 | What you do for the first two years is you learn all the theory of being a doctor and you go and you have to between eight of you , learn all about a body you have one body between of you and you learn all about all the muscles and the nerves |
11 | The calendar of events form for the next six months period which should be completed and returned before 2 MARCH 1990 . |
12 | Now , is it any wonder why American businesses in Singapore have for the last 5 years registered a remarkable 25% average rate of return . |
13 | One of the contexts in which we are exercising ministry is that we have for the last fifty years well I have n't personally ! |
14 | I have for the last two years been closely involved with an EEC forecasting study — The Forecasting and Assessment in Science and Technology ( FAST ) Biosociety subprogramme . |
15 | We will continue to protect its value against price rises , as we have for the last 13 years . |
16 | We have tried to sum up the fragments of information which we have for the last three centuries in our second chapter , ‘ Glimpses of a Lost History ’ . |
17 | But I want you to understand that , in making up my mind , I did not forget the country or the Commonwealth which , as Prince of Wales , I have for the last 23 years tried to serve . |
18 | I have for the last ten years been writing software using Clipper database and would like to improve the front end on some of the software . |