Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Road accidents in the North-East have fallen dramatically in the last ten years . |
| 2 | Prices have fallen steeply in the last year , and while this year 's drop will not be so dramatic , prices will continue to fall . |
| 3 | Adoptions have fallen steadily in the last 15 years . |
| 4 | Fitness requirements have altered dramatically in the last five years and the recent law changes make it even more imperative that players be fitter , more mobile and faster around the pitch . |
| 5 | Distinct approaches to data analysis in Britain and France have developed independently over the last 10 years . |
| 6 | In fact events have developed rapidly in the last few weeks and it was announced at a Committee meeting on Monday 1st June that we had every hope of opening the museum by the end of the month . |
| 7 | However trends in the activity rates of men and women have differed significantly over the last 15 years . |
| 8 | Their numbers have dropped noticeably in the last five years and very dramatically since the 1880s , when 70 per cent of all cattle in the Netherlands were Groningens while Friesians represented only 18 per cent and were mainly restricted to Friesland and Drenthe . |
| 9 | It is not surprising , therefore , that incomes have dropped severely during the last few years , with the result that we are now beginning to see signs of dereliction . |
| 10 | A thousand people have come here in the last year and another thousand are expected in the next year . |
| 11 | In complete contrast , the hard-up Blues , who are now some £5m in the red , are failing to make the most of a sound defence because , as I have written repeatedly throughout the last 12 months , they are seriously short of creative ability in midfield . |
| 12 | Now speaking to you , as chairman of the G M B parliamentary group I can tell you that we have met twice over the last few weeks on this issue of modernization and we are agreed on the need to avoid a damaging public row from which everybody yes including the unions , will lose . |
| 13 | Sales at Dillons and Ryman are marginally ahead , but Pentos Office Furniture and Athena have done badly in the fourth quarter . |
| 14 | Fewer than 1 in 5 of the men in our sample has confined his sexual experience to a single partner , though two-thirds of them have done so over the last 12 months . |
| 15 | I have done so for the last seven or eight weeks . ’ |
| 16 | They have done so in the first place because of the advantage of high space utilization on limited ground area ; an important asset to companies trying to make the best use of a high value industrial site with no room for extension . |
| 17 | I have seen frequently over the last year and I have been very grateful for her friendship , not to mention the clothes she has lent me which her daughter has outgrown . |
| 18 | Building society mortgage arrears have risen considerably in the last few years . |
| 19 | The number and proportion of remarriages have risen sharply in the last two decades . |
| 20 | At home , high street sales have risen modestly for the second month running . |
| 21 | Eryngium alpinum I have saved almost to the last , not because it is common , which it is , but rather that to my mind it is the loveliest representative of the Umbelliferae family ( which includes , strange though it may seem , the carrot ) . |
| 22 | Poverty and restricted opportunities for employment as a result of under-development are usually regarded as so-called ‘ push ’ factors in the explanation of patterns of emigration from less developed countries , and in the case of the Indian sub-continent and the Caribbean Islands have operated powerfully throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in compelling sections of their populations to find work abroad , very often servicing the economic and military needs of the British Empire . |
| 23 | OMEGA products have performed well in the first half of the year achieving significant growth in volume compared with last year . |
| 24 | Both have shifted substantially in the last decade , to the disadvantage of developing countries . |
| 25 | While they maintain there are no plans to change the status quo , they also admit they have invested heavily in the next stage of managerial succession and feel confident the culture they have created is strong enough to survive beyond their actual involvement . |
| 26 | A lot of gargoyles have deteriorated more in the last 70–80 years than in the preceding 200 years because of the pollution . |
| 27 | Something they have proved consistently over the last ten years . |
| 28 | THE PARENTS of murdered toddler Jamie Bulger have spoken publicly for the first time about their tragedy and their new hopes for the birth of another child . |
| 29 | THE parents of toddler James Bulger have spoken publicly for the first time since their son 's tragic death in February . |
| 30 | It is time to recognise the last three phases — currently we have concentrated primarily on the first phase . |