Example sentences of "the [noun pl] for the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So much so that , although it had not been mentioned at all in the advance publicity , it was given no fewer than 87 times that season and remained in the programmes for the next six seasons , by which time the company had danced it more often than any other work in their repertory except Les Sylphides and two of Ashton 's ballets , Façade and Les Rendezvous . |
| 2 | The optimist would point out that the aggregate attendance for the two Tests so far — 31,310 — compares very favourably with the aggregates for the first two Tests of 1980 ( 17,977 ) , and 1985 ( 28,097 ) . |
| 3 | It looks as if he tore out the entries for the last two months and burned those pages separately , then chucked the book open on the flames . |
| 4 | But it was part of a performance by one of the contenders for the Ninth National Review of Live Art . |
| 5 | They 're only in the shops for the next few weeks , so do try one now . |
| 6 | TO RAISE THE FUNDS FOR THE NEXT MILLION TREES TO BE PLANTED AT SHONE . |
| 7 | I 've been bowling in the nets for the last two weeks . |
| 8 | The figures for the first two years are easy as these decisions have already been taken , years four and five are merely projections on current assumptions while the hard decisions have at this stage to be taken for year three . |
| 9 | Accountancy Television has announced the rates for the first annual subscriptions . |
| 10 | They were standing on the terrace just before lunch , watching the shrinking white mantle that had covered the slopes for the last two days , when a dark shape moving fast appeared further up the valley . |
| 11 | Then , using our equations , we predicted the prices for the first four sales of the year 1991 : Sotheby 's 8 January and 18 February 1991 , Christie 's 9 January and 16 April 1991 . |
| 12 | Also through to the quarter-finals for the fifth successive year is England 's Gary Smith who beat Jeff Rabkin 7-6 7-4 7-3 . |
| 13 | The bad news is revealed partly by the results for the first half year and partly by the company 's prediction that its borrowings will only be down to half shareholders ' funds even at the end-of-year low point after the Christmas rush . |
| 14 | : Table 3.8 shows the results for the first ten words selected from the relative frequency distribution list . |
| 15 | Swansea , the Heineken League leaders , were restricted to only two tries in their 14–6 win over Dunvant to reach the semi-finals for the third successive season . |
| 16 | Anglers Choice starlet Graham Metcalfe topped the proceedings for the second successive week and set a new five-hour best of 16–8–0 . |
| 17 | Their hard-nosed ‘ method ’ rugby and its ultimate reward when they blitzed the Springboks for the first two-thirds of the test at Ellis Park to build an unassailable 20–3 lead . |
| 18 | The icy missiles bombarded the runners for the first two miles , and when the aerial attack subsided Johnson pulled away at the head of the field , and only Steve Webb , of Blaydon Harriers , responded to the quickening pace . |
| 19 | The Department of Transport confirmed last night that Mr Reid had made no input into BR 's new corporate plan which sets the blueprint and financial structure of the railways for the next three years , which is expected to show further cuts in government support . |
| 20 | It has two merits : it stops detergent from getting stuck in the dispenser and therefore wasted , and it allows a highly concentrated washing solution to engulf the clothes for the first ten minutes of a wash . |
| 21 | Prince Charles argued that they should be brought up initially by Mabel Anderson , his childhood nanny , and then a governess employed to educate the boys for the first few years in the privacy of Kensington Palace . |
| 22 | If as Secretary of State you get it wrong , then you — and crucially the people you are serving — live with the consequences for the next twelve months and beyond . |
| 23 | They had been underestimated , as the first Test proved , but the damage had been done and the attendances for the first two Tests were depressing . |