Example sentences of "in [noun pl] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said there had been a remarkable change in attitudes over the last few years in which those people still in work were determined not to give up their annual break , although they were being forced to cut down on other spending . |
| 2 | Major changes in organizations in the last 20 years have often led to dissonance over expectations . |
| 3 | Talking about it as a revolution in the wider world , and how it impacts on classrooms , there has , of course , been a tremendously increased interest in using micros in schools in the last three years . |
| 4 | The bank , with 60 per cent of the ‘ retail acquisition ’ market , plans to install 20,000 terminals in shops in the next 18 months . |
| 5 | They are available by mail order at about £15 and will be in shops in the next few weeks . |
| 6 | ‘ If you are in quality stocks with strong balance sheets in less cyclical areas of the market you will do well in equities over the next few years . ’ |
| 7 | The centre has been allocated £10 million in funds over the next five years . |
| 8 | Of this total , SDR33,600,000 ( about US$45 million ) were available in instalments over the next 12 months under a standby arrangement . |
| 9 | People want to spend their day forgetting about hard times — even if they pay it off in instalments over the next ten years . |
| 10 | On average you get a maximum of £60 — £100 , paid in instalments after the first 12 hours ' delay . |
| 11 | Both of these have also been raised in evaluations of the first six years of National Certificate 's operation . |
| 12 | So , a yearly 10 per cent rise in fares for the next five years . |
| 13 | I think I speak for the vast majority of the environmental health committee when I say that the abatement and noise pollution has been one of our ongoing major concerns in things for the last twelve months . |
| 14 | But when average shrinkage — the retailers ' word for shoplifted goods — is expressed as a percentage of net profit before tax , the position is much worse , reflecting the reduction in profits over the last two years . |
| 15 | Furthermore , as the amount of alcohol consumed before pancreatitis correlates with the severity markers of the disease in patients with the first acute alcoholic pancreatitis episode , the correlation between the alcohol consumption in Finland and the occurrence of severe pancreatitis in the country was also studied . |
| 16 | In addition to speaker , addressee and audience ( third person , being , of course , definable in terms of the first two ) , there are a number of further distinctions in person deixis that probably need to be made . |
| 17 | In terms of the first annual arrangement , SDR74,700,000 was made available , of which SDR42,300,000 was disbursed on April 30 . |
| 18 | Miss Bowes said : ‘ There has been an upward trend in rates in the last few weeks because it looked like Labour were going to win . |
| 19 | Welsh success : Wales continues to lead the UK out of recession , enjoying the largest regional increase in orders over the last four months , says the Bank of Wales . |
| 20 | ‘ Export prospects look brighter with smaller firms expecting a slight increase in orders in the next four months . |
| 21 | I 've been working in watercolours for the last seven years , but this particular picture is quite experimental for me . |
| 22 | On March 7 hundreds of government employees had reportedly rioted in Salta , 1,600 km north-west of Buenos Aires , in protest at Menem 's plans to cut state spending , and thousands more participated in a nationwide strike on March 21 , an estimated 40,000 demonstrating in Buenos Aires for an end to privatization and for wage increases to compensate for an estimated 40 per cent rise in prices in the first two weeks of the month . |
| 23 | Accreditation was not a concept that had gained currency in Britain at this time , and in developments over the next few years it was to receive a variety of interpretations in British further and higher education . |
| 24 | Under a scheme introduced at Shell Chemicals in February last year women receive six months ' maternity pay , half at the beginning of their leave and the rest paid in stages during the first nine months after they return to work . |
| 25 | Managing director Michel Apchin confirmed takeover rumours , saying ‘ We have been in negotiations for the last few weeks with a group that is not French . |
| 26 | Only 29 per cent of four-day matches have ended in draws over the last two seasons . |
| 27 | Number three in charts for the last million million years Michael . |
| 28 | The smaller , darker mountain type with black points and mucosae is very like the Piedmont of northwest Italy and is ideal for extensive systems , but it has been declining in numbers over the last 50 years and by 1980 was down to about 35,000 . |
| 29 | The building society industry faces major changes — including a reduction in numbers over the next 10 years |
| 30 | The numbers and types of printers have increased rapidly in the last three years , but we would not expect any rapid increase in numbers in the next three years . |