Example sentences of "of [verb] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A big quake east of the Rocky Mountains — and one greater than magnitude 6 has a 50 to 60 per cent chance of occurring in the next 25 years — could make California 's Loma Prieta seem trifling . |
| 2 | Between them , the Waleses have established a way of operating over the last ten years that is unmistakably their own ; and quite unlike any other branch of the Royal Family . |
| 3 | Already , he knew that his chances of living through the next four or five weeks had been severely curtailed . |
| 4 | The report starts by reviewing the pattern of spending in the first two years of the fund . |
| 5 | First , we aim to set out what has happened to the total level of spending in the last 12 years . |
| 6 | In a statement on Nov. 22 the Karen National Union ( KNU ) estimated that over 800 civilians , 375 government troops and 27 Karen guerrillas had been killed as a result of fighting during the last six weeks in the lower central Irrawaddy Delta , south-east of Rangoon . |
| 7 | Some people may feel that Rawls ' original position is already a description of a process of compromise , of settling for the second best . |
| 8 | With the considerable degree of replanting in the last few centuries it is possible that the Weald now exhibits a more wooded aspect than at any time since the early medieval period . |
| 9 | When elected in 1981 , the Mitterrand government harked back to the legacy of planning in the first postwar decades ( chapter 18 ) . |