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 .
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