Example sentences of "it [be] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A royal charter , read aloud by a villager on horseback , proclaims Seamer Fair to be open for business for the next seven days ; but it is not , nor has it been for the last fifty years . |
| 2 | it 's for the first three |
| 3 | Those people whose names you 've just , you 've given me their details from , could I ask you er if the next time you see them if it 's within the next few days or certainly erm if , if you could over the next day or two give them a ring just to let them know that I do intend to contact them , I 'll probably contact them within the next week or so . |
| 4 | What is common to all of them and to others , as it is to the first two sorts of " if " statements , is that none states the kind of connection of one thing with another which is expressed by any dependent conditional . |
| 5 | It is during the first few months in particular that these sorts of activities can affect the developing foetus , producing babies that may be premature , and with a low birth weight . |
| 6 | The physical act of training breaks down part of the muscle exercised , and it is during the next 24–72 hours that the muscles recover and begin to grow . |
| 7 | It is after the first few years in employment that the profiles diverge dramatically and again the male/female contrast is vivid . |
| 8 | It is in the last hundred years or so that theories have been advanced to justify critical or art historical practice , the creation of such theories being made more urgent in the last fifty years by a struggle to establish and then uphold the status of art history as an academic discipline . |
| 9 | Well it was for the next two years . |
| 10 | Again the warning is vital as it was for the last two techniques . |
| 11 | It was during the first four decades of the twentieth century that the major contours of psychoanalytic theory were first developed by Freud . |
| 12 | It was during the next 8 years that he began to experience the first stirrings of an interest destined to change his life beyond all imaginings . |
| 13 | Does my hon. Friend agree that , at 3.7 per cent. , the rate of inflation is half the lowest level that it was under the last Labour Government ? |
| 14 | It was over the next few years that he started to produce his finest work . |
| 15 | When he spoke , it was from the first Tory bench below the gangway , the place he used as a backbencher before his ministerial days , in his youth as the Chingford Skinhead . |
| 16 | Yet the output is little over half what it was in the last five years before 1939 . |