Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story of how Meehan and his advisors tried and failed during the next seven years to obtain justice for him in the light of increasing evidence of his innocence and Waddell 's guilt makes sorry reading . |
| 2 | He could n't go back now , not after all the planning and scheming of the last few months . |
| 3 | Do n't panic about a squint that comes and goes in the first few months , though , as this is quite normal and happens because she has n't developed binocular vision yet . |
| 4 | They were aged 75 years and were seen and treated within the first 4 hours of the onset of symptoms . |
| 5 | Grades 2 and 3 indicate patency of the infarct related vessel and were found mostly in these 50 patients seen and treated within the first 4 hours after the onset of symptoms who received the 100 mg rt-PA . |
| 6 | Discovered and excavated in the last sixty years , they have often been described . |
| 7 | During January , six planets are visiting your sign , so to say that life 's likely to be busy , fun and demanding for the next few months is an understatement . |
| 8 | Defending her life and being jolted and shaken over the last few days had left her exhausted . |
| 9 | It is in this area that our communications facilities will require to be strengthened and developed within the next five years . |
| 10 | Utilitarianism has been both vigorously defended and attacked in the last few decades . |
| 11 | ( 4 ) In this paragraph ’ financial year ’ means the period beginning with the date on which the Funding Council is established and ending with the second 31st March following that date , and each successive period of twelve months . |
| 12 | But within a few weeks of William 's appointment she had applied to three different London boroughs for a job — any job — in social work , taken the first one she 'd been offered , fixed up the flat , put the cottage on the market , found a school for Edwin , and fled from the last five years of her life with almost indecent haste . |
| 13 | I was looking down at my plate , licking my finger and picking off the last few crumbs , transferring them to my mouth . |
| 14 | IT is a great privilege and pleasure for me to honour my old friend and colleague John Gillam , with whom I have worked and argued over the last thirty years . |
| 15 | We 've noticed that the numbers of young homeless people who are coming to see us have risen and risen over the last few months and few years . |
| 16 | FOUR Guatemalan police officers were found guilty on 28 April , 1992 of the murder of thirteen-year-old street child Nahaman Carmona Lopez and sentenced by the Fifth Criminal Sentencing Court of the First Instance to imprisonment terms of between 12 and 18 years . |
| 17 | Avoid rigorous vacuuming and shampooing during the first few weeks after your new carpet has been fitted . |
| 18 | Andrew Gallagher on the right wing , beat two tackles and scored in the first five minutes of the game , following a neat Jeremy Hastings pick-up . |
| 19 | The CAT scanner which the hospital wants for its X ray department will cost £600,000 to buy and run for the first few years . |
| 20 | This part of the country is extraordinarily rich in small sects that grew up and flourished in the last two or three centuries . |
| 21 | If anything it is the managers in family health services authorities and the NHS who have failed to anticipate and plan for the first three of these contingencies that has caused the current workload crisis . |
| 22 | The crowd and television fans will be thirsting for Eubank to be more positive than against Tony Thornton two months ago , when he simply shouldered arms and retreated during the last two rounds before nicking the points decision . |
| 23 | A further consignment of goods was ordered and supplied against the second stolen cheque , Mr. Gilberd having agreed to the transaction without further inquiry . |
| 24 | Now aged 38 , Harwood has been making things , perfecting techniques and designing for the last twenty years but is barely known outside a small group of cognoscenti . |
| 25 | This distinction is absolutely vital because it uncovers and deals with the first major misconception of doubt — the idea that in doubting a believer is betraying faith and surrendering to unbelief . |
| 26 | Now , what I 'd like to do , I mean it 's only sun shining out there so you 'd only be wasting your time anyway , I 'd like to consult you about moving on and getting in the next four motions on union organization . |
| 27 | THE TREATMENT OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE , LEARNING AND TEACHING DURING THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF A NEW BACHELOR OF EDUCATION DEGREE . |
| 28 | CONFERENCE delegates yesterday swept aside a warning from the party leadership and called for the next Labour government to take back into public ownership immediately land sold off by privatised water companies . |
| 29 | The plane was painted and repainted over the next 20 years with each change of ownership or brand of gasoline . |
| 30 | To link Walker with skipper Tony Adams would also continue a partnership which has looked sound and secure in the last two England internationals . |