Example sentences of "[num] [prep] the [adj] four [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | and that accounts of twenty six of the thirty four packages . |
2 | He finished on the rostrum in three of the first four GPs ( ignition failure put him out of the fourth ) and he beat John Kocinski in stunning style to win the fifth GP of the season at the Nurburgring . |
3 | I have read three of the first four issues and find it thoroughly enjoyable with lots of practical help and practical help is what I require . |
4 | Briefly , the diagnosis of ulcerative colitis was based on the presence of at least three of the following four criteria : a typical history of diarrhoea ; stools containing blood and pus , or both , for more than one week or in repeated episodes ; a typical sigmoidoscopic appearance , with granulated friable mucosa or ulcerations , or both ; histological or cytological signs of inflammation ; and radiological or colonoscopic signs of ulcerations with or without spiculation or granulation of the inner surface of the colon proximal to the rectum . |
5 | Coursework is directed towards the dissertation and is normally assessed by four essays on two or three of the following four areas : the beginnings of Christianity ; contemporary New Testament theology ; historical , philosophical and philological questions relating to the language and text of the New Testament ; the New Testament as literature . |
6 | Played in three of the last four games in fact . |
7 | Clough , leading scorer at Forest for three of the last four seasons , has been wanted by a number of top clubs since his dad brought him out of local Sunday League football to Forest . |
8 | Incidents have been reported in the Caribbean in three of the last four years . |
9 | Given that this competition — which Forest have monopolised in the last four years after playing in three of the last four finals , winning two of them — offered Brian Clough 's only route to Europe next year they appeared unusually indifferent . |
10 | I required to make three of the last four tricks in the situation shown below , knowing that both opponents also held only Spades and Diamonds at this stage : |
11 | Hendry , winner of six titles this season , shrugged off the setback and won three of the next four frames for his first Irish final in three years . |
12 | It might be thought that a programme which proposes to cut the federal workforce by 100,000 over the next four years had scant claim to be a drive for jobs . |
13 | The number of people seeking refugee status has risen from 5,000 a year to 45,000 over the past four years . |
14 | After shrinking slightly over the past few years , the gap grew to nearly $10 billion during the first four months of this year , up from a little over $6 billion for the same period in 1990 . |
15 | Fields is confident that Prabhakar , who now directs ARPA 's $300-million microelectronics technology office , can run an agency whose budget is expected to quadruple to $1.4 billion in the next four years . |
16 | Normally , one of the following four types of investment policy is used : with profits , unit linked , deposit administration and non-profit . |
17 | ‘ I went to a couple of big pension experts , local advisers , company reps and one of the top four banks to ask what I should do , ’ says Alan . |
18 | One of the big four supermarkets , Sainsbury 's says it 's happy to take up the gauntlet . |
19 | I did n't play all that well at Sunningdale , but I did sneak into the Lancome , albeit in one of the last four places . |
20 | Even if one may offer alternative solutions for some of the actual tempo relationships Devos establishes , he is surely on safer ground than is William Christie in his more recent recording ( Harmonia Mundi HMC 901298 ) , where not only are there no audible attempts to establish tempo relationships , except where the composer does not call for them ( as we shall see ) , but the tactus lurches from 72 to 85 to 66 and then 96 in the first four tempos employed , and the tempo within sections is seriously disturbed on several occasions by extravagant rallentandos . |
21 | It can be seen from Figure 2.21 that the bit patterns representing the digits 0 to 9 as characters all have binary " 1111 " in the left-hand four bits of the byte , with patterns " 0000 " for decimal 0 to " 1001 " for decimal 9 in the right-hand four bits . |
22 | The diagnosis of Crohn 's disease was based on the presence of at least two of the following four criteria : a history of diarrhoea lasting more than three months ; radiological findings of typical stenoses and prestenotic dilatation in the small bowel or segments with a cobblestone appearance in the large bowel ; histological findings of transmural lymphocytic infiltration or occurrence of epithelial granulomas with giant cells of Langhans ' type , or both ; and the occurrence of fistulas or abscesses , or both , in a region of intestinal disease . |
23 | In addition to the former heads of two of the big four securities houses — ex-chairman of Nomura Securities , Setsuya Tabuchi , and former president of Nikko Securities , Takuya Iwasaki — three senior bankers were summoned . |
24 | It has sold only two in the last four years . |
25 | World-class centre with a world-beating record strike-rate of 19 tries in 23 Tests , including four in the last four games . |
26 | AS GATES FORECASTS NT SALES OF A MILLION IN THE FIRST FOUR MONTHS |
27 | On Aug. 4 Kazakh radio had reported that trade between Kazakhstan and the Chinese autonomous district of Ili Kazak had totalled US$122 million in the first four months of 1992 . |
28 | Greenock , for example , spent over £4 million in the last four years in education and training . |
29 | But has proposed that NASA spend an additional $ 550 million over the next four years on civil aviation research , raising the government 's level of support beyond the limit if , as seems likely , sales remain stagnant . |
30 | IMF Managing Director Michel Camdessus had said on April 15 that the republics were expected to need more than US$100,000 million over the next four years . |