Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] the [num ord] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sleep spindles develop during the first two months of life , varying in frequency between 10 and 4Hz although showing no systematic tendency to increase in frequency with age ( as is the case with the waking alpha rhythm , which progressively becomes faster with age , to reach a maximum of 10–11Hz ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , exhausted or not , you wo n't be getting much sleep for the next four days . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So just skim through the first ten lines then eleven to the end really concentrate on . |
| 7 | Well I thought well I 'll , just think about what I want with the last five pounds . |
| 8 | ‘ He 's probably had two hours sleep in the last seven months , but he does n't care . ’ |
| 9 | All appear in the first eight lines : |
| 10 | okay Why do you think that intra industry trade has risen , say over the last fifty years ? |
| 11 | But can you just give me , sort of , a brief overview of what 's happened to the composition of world trade right , say over the last hundred years or so . |
| 12 | Staff there have seen over 1,000 jobs dissapear during the last 3 years , but with millions of pounds worth of orders coming their way , tonight they 're in a celebratory mood . |
| 13 | This matter has caused me great concern and problems early in the Parliament , but I hope in the next 24 hours to show where my true attitudes lie . |
| 14 | Council records show in the last 18 months a total of 44 businesses have stopped trading in Darlington including Miniprint , Initial Garments and Stenga Engineering . |
| 15 | Contemporary blueprints focus on the next three years , and their targets are modest , if not downright pessimistic . |
| 16 | How would they like a stranger to be in control of the way they look for the next six months ? ’ |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | Now if you look at the first four figures there , does anybody want to have a guess at what those first four figures mean ? |
| 19 | Do the new words figure in exercises ? 13 Look at the first two lessons for phonological features . |
| 20 | On the way in we look at the first five tables — if we do n't spot anyone , if we do n't get told about anything happening , we politely disappear after 20 minutes or so . ’ |
| 21 | If you make the same mistake , er , you have to buy another set , and I double the price for people who have heard me say do n't do this , er , and lie low , you know in the first three months , because I believe in penalising stupidity . |
| 22 | To link Walker with skipper Tony Adams would also continue a partnership which has looked sound and secure in the last two England internationals . |
| 23 | Mr Smith 's warning coincided with a call by Ken Livingstone , the Labour MP for Brent East , who said on London Weekend Television 's The Walden Interview : ‘ You can be miles ahead in the polls , but when you get to the last three weeks , people think , ‘ Can I afford a Labour government ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ If you consider that out of the 1,800 listed companies the top 200 account for 85 per cent of the equity market by market capital , and that once you get to the next 100 companies like ourselves they already have comparatively few qualified people in the finance function , the addition of equally qualified internal audit people looks like overkill . ’ |
| 25 | If you remember at the last two sessions we 've talked about signs and symbols . |
| 26 | I think companies well in fact B and Q erm recently announced that er not recently I mean in the last eighteen months they 've started to have their er stores erm |
| 27 | If it wo n't earn you profit within the next three months , cut it from your inventory |
| 28 | But they are also nervous that the calculations they make in the next two weeks may determine who will win and lose the political battles of the next two years . |
| 29 | Now for Tendulkar : how many Test runs will this elegant little genius make in the next dozen years ? |
| 30 | Unix , House believes , will dominate the open systems market for the next five years . |