Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although a total prohibition exists for the third category above , special circumstances may exist for the first two services . |
| 2 | But now I 'm looking at 15 articles totalling 20,000 words which I must deliver within the next six days . |
| 3 | With the political dust not yet settled from a controversial abortion ruling in July , the nine Supreme Court justices must rule in the next nine months on three other attempts by US states to regulate abortion as well as the right of parents to terminate the life of a brain-dead daughter . |
| 4 | However , historians and contra-cyclical investors may argue that there have been few five year periods since the Second World War when deposits have outperformed equities — and stock markets should revive over the next five years . |
| 5 | While civil conflicts of this kind should diminish in the next twenty-five years as African states mature , they will not disappear . |
| 6 | But I might do in the next fifty years any of them . |
| 7 | ‘ Obviously it 's not good enough and I 'll decide over the next 48 hours what I am going to do . |
| 8 | I have sent round a briefing paper , and rather than go right through that , what I 'd just like to do is to highlight two or three things about myself and about the post that I now hold , and I would be pleased to answer any questions that you might have during the next two or three minutes . |
| 9 | If you are concerned about how Lothian Region might change over the next fifteen years or so , this leaflet will be of interest to you . |
| 10 | The time set for one of the days is midnight , but it is not clear how long the Committee might sit for the first six days . |
| 11 | The study concluded that there has been no reported increase in any radiation-related illnesses , such as leukaemia , birth defects or thyroid cancer , in the villages surrounding the reactor , although it suggested that incidence of thyroid cancer might increase over the next five to ten years . |
| 12 | Let's look at the last two in more detail . |
| 13 | The Irish Prime Minister , Charles Haughey , could resign within the next two weeks according to Fianna Fail party sources . |
| 14 | Streat asked MacArthur for his views on trade with China to which the general replied that an increase in trade between Japan and mainland China would not occur immediately but that he was convinced that this could occur within the next four or five years . |
| 15 | Our perception of spermatozoa was changed forever by Woody Allen 's impersonation of one in Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex , and University of Pennsylvania are giving substance to his fantasies , putting the poor little tadpoles through an arduous obstacle course to step up the process of survival of the fittest : according to Prodigy Services Co , the mad scientists have created a new class of silicon chip that can be used for analyzing sperm samples and providing a venue for fertilisation ; the technology uses microscopic obstacle courses inside a silicon wafer to weed out unhealthy sperm , and has been used successfully to fertilise a mouse egg ; the chips are etched with a virtual theme park of twisting channels , forests of columns , and other features designed to ensure only the strongest of sperm reach their goal , with some passages so small that only a single cell can pass ; the researchers have not yet applied for approval to test human fertilisation using the chip , but say that could happen within the next 12 months — Brave New World , or the embodiment of virtual sex . |
| 16 | If you could find me a garret somewhere near you , where I could live for the next three months , I could finish it , and perhaps get it Published . |
| 17 | Its what we used to do in the 2nd div championship year , and even in the first division the first year up . |
| 18 | If this pace kept up , 10,000 buildings classed as ‘ historic ’ would disappear over the next twenty-five years . |
| 19 | The two suitcases represented everything she thought she would need for the next seven months at the Hamiltons ' , and it seemed like an odd way to be taking what might be a big step in her life . |
| 20 | The hole would appear over the next 20 years at Hemerdon , just outside Plymouth — the scene of western Europe 's biggest deposit of tungsten . |
| 21 | On Aug. 6 Islamic Jihad issued a statement saying that it would send within the next 48 hours " a special envoy " with an extremely important message to Pérez de Cuéllar . |
| 22 | What we shall see in the next two chapters is that this limitation in the Host 's response can not be seen simply as a caricaturing of the Host as an intellectually limited churl , or as an endorsement of the undoubtedly vital fabliau ethos . |
| 23 | Also , as we shall see in the next two sections , an important aspect is that the chaotic behaviour is exhibited by classical , deterministic systems ; hence , the name ‘ deterministic chaos ’ is often used . |
| 24 | In this respect , San Francisco 's version of the exhibition gains from the proximity of ‘ Collection ’ , that important triptych of paint and collaged material belonging to the museum , in which Rauschenberg rehearsed the full range of the combined techniques which he would employ for the next ten years . |
| 25 | They had food in their saddlebags for two days , and the pack mules carried grain and hay for the horses , there being little forage in the hills the patrol would traverse for the first two days . |
| 26 | British imperial and industrial success appeared unlimited , but in fact was already being compromised by long-term processes of economic and political change , which we shall outline in the next two sections . |
| 27 | Cedric Brown , its chief executive , said the jobs would go over the next 18 months . |
| 28 | Oliver Twist was born in a workhouse , and when he arrived in this hard world , it was very doubtful whether he would live beyond the first three minutes . |
| 29 | Ejecting a few birds we inspected the inside of the crude habitation where the men would live for the next ten days or more . |
| 30 | Here is a man , to anticipate terms we shall find in the next two chapters to be of lasting significance in respect of Chaucer 's use of the fabliau , who can indeed find " " Goddes foyson " " in his wife 's " " queynte " " without enquiring further . |