Example sentences of "a [noun] for the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been loafing a bit for the last few days . |
| 2 | They are DEVOTED to each other — she 's seeing a toy boy and he 's had a mistress for the last fourteen years |
| 3 | Mrs Simmons , a photographer for the last 15 years , also achieved one of two merits from the BIPP for a photograph of the Cornmill centre in Darlington . |
| 4 | They 'd been sharing a cell for the last two years . |
| 5 | A downstairs room , once his study , had been turned into a bedroom for the last few months , and his bed faced the french windows leading into the garden he loved so well . |
| 6 | We would completely pin back a side for the first 20 mins , and invariably crack them . |
| 7 | Sistelcom 's president , Victoria Reinoso , announced that investment in the new system was running at some $3.5m per annum , and acknowledged that the system would run at a loss for the first two years . |
| 8 | You 've got a captive audience there why the hell do n't you do it a sheet why do n't you give them a programme for the next three months exactly what is happening . |
| 9 | The January 1980 Annual General Meeting was a portent for the next three years , leading to the Bondholders buyout . |
| 10 | Diana , herself a keen sailor despite being confined to a wheelchair for the last 45 years , hopes the boat will encourage more disabled people onto the water . |
| 11 | Diana Campbell , herself a keen sailor despite being confined to a wheelchair for the last 45 years , dreamt up the idea of a specially adapted dinghy sailing boat in the early seventies , and persuaded Roderick Macalpine-Downie to design it . |
| 12 | Joan 's husband suffers from motor neurone disease , is very weak and has been in a wheelchair for the last nine years , almost totally dependent on her for physical care . |
| 13 | erm there has not been a manifesto for the next General Election , which may take place in a week or two , or in a year or so . |
| 14 | As anyone who has n't been in a coma for the last ten years knows as much anyway , why bother ? |
| 15 | There followed a period for the next 18 months where my family , having joined me from Yorkshire , came up to Scotland . |
| 16 | . Where we have a client who has a need for the first ten years for it looks like a hundred and ninety thousand pounds worth of life cover , at the end of the ten year period , the need is reduced , maybe the children have left home , so sum assu , assured reduces down to , in this case , it looks like to be about fifty thousand for the rest of the time . |
| 17 | It 's erm I 've got I mean I 've got a job for the first six weeks already set up with |
| 18 | I remember Yvonne saying something about being away on a job for the next few days . |
| 19 | The two Officers shook hands , then they both went into the caravan after informing me that they would be attending a meeting for the next two hours . |
| 20 | Well , come by around six , Gayle — I 'm in a meeting for the next two three hours . ’ |
| 21 | With the draw being kind to them , Glasgow Western , Britain 's most successful side in Europe , have a realistic chance of securing a medal for the fifth successive time . |
| 22 | Adding the quoted margin to the average gives a coupon for the next six months of 7.78125 per cent . |
| 23 | The finals — which begin at 1pm — are likely to be a sell-out for the third successive year but tickets can be obtained from the Scottish Volleyball Association offices in Edinburgh or from Meadowbank on the day . |
| 24 | The power available from the hydroelectric station will be at least 800 MW , eight hours a day for the first 20 years , thereafter falling by about 30 per cent . |
| 25 | Giant London toy shop Hamleys has been getting more than 500 calls a day for the last two weeks from people asking about Thunderbird toys . |
| 26 | The sailors face split into a grin for the first tame when Yanto handed him four pound notes . |
| 27 | Somehow a collection for the next few months was cobbled together and gobbled up by the hungry customers . |
| 28 | we 're in a real mess on transport in this country — largely because we have n't had a policy for the last fourteen years . |
| 29 | She did five episodes a week for the first two years but then began to ease up after her record career began to take off . |
| 30 | And the other thing is , I am really asking you to give Wendy two more hours a week for the next three months and then review it . |