Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have preferred to see its replacement with a fixed housing allowance of limited term , and possibly on a more generous scale , for first time buyers only and those who have bought their houses in the last few years ; that should be coupled with the extension of housing benefit , which is limited to the rented sector , to low income home owners who have difficulty in meeting their mortgage payments . |
| 2 | I would have preferred to see its replacement with a fixed housing allowance of limited term , and possibly on a more generous scale , for first time buyers only and those who have bought their houses in the last few years ; that should be coupled with the extension of housing benefit , which is limited to the rented sector , to low-income home owners who have difficulty in meeting their mortgage payments . |
| 3 | A guaranteed investment of over £14 million in their homes over the next 10 years . |
| 4 | The £26m advance will be deducted from their royalties over the next 12 years . |
| 5 | The sum of all their labours over the last gruelling months . |
| 6 | ROBERT NORSTER , the Welsh team manager , and national coach Alan Davies have been invited by the Welsh Rugby Union to continue in their roles through the next three Five Nations campaigns and up to and including the 1995 World Cup . |
| 7 | The motley band stared in awe at the figure who would be in charge of their lives for the next three months . |
| 8 | As it was , some 50,000 soldiers were to lose their lives during the next few months in fruitless attacks on Chunuk Bair . |
| 9 | The delegates exchanged views on their experiences of the first six months of the pilot and considered the problems of offering general SVQs in a remote area , school-college partnerships , and the additional assessment , and produced a checklist of advice for new piloting centres ( see opposite ) . |
| 10 | ‘ They 've been encouraging local authorities to tighten their belts for the last 14 years , ’ he protests . |
| 11 | The efforts of African leaders to build a new political system within their countries in the last twenty-five years have not for the most part been successful . |
| 12 | More disasters followed , when it was found that the track had been laid slightly out-of-gauge , and all of the new cars 27–41 broke their axles in the first two weeks . |
| 13 | Durham St Studio Open Days HOPEFUL musicians have a wealth of advice at their fingertips over the next few days . |
| 14 | Either through this , or through their exercise of coercive powers , the great landed nobility were able to minimize damage to their incomes in the first twenty years or so after the first onset of the plague . |
| 15 | Because i it is assumed management is learned by picking up the bad habits of your predecessor and their predecessors for the last five hundred years . |
| 16 | The experts have only to accept that the joint sessions also used groups of models kitted-out for each occasion by Rembrandt from his well stocked theatrical wardrobe and used them for painting as well as for drawing , to come to realize that their efforts over the last seventy years have been largely misdirected . |
| 17 | This study extends the work of a pilot study funded by ESRC ( C/00/23/2220 ) which examined the interaction between dear parents and their infants in the first 12 months of life . |
| 18 | The Act also allows President Ramos to negotiate contracts to build new power plants , bypassing the public bidding process , and requires state-owned casinos to give up 10 per cent of their profits over the next five years to the National Power Corporation . |
| 19 | Christies International , one of the world 's leading art auctioneers , yesterday revealed their profits for the last six months had been hammered by £1 million down to £2,112,000 . |
| 20 | their percentages for the first three |
| 21 | Other strategies which recognise the new sense and the new possibilities are the wildlife/domestic stock village systems developing in Central Africa — systems not dissimilar to the self-sufficient , low-input philosophy that Gandhi was promoting before India became a monolithic Civil Service with centralised control which destroyed village integrity : the same problem that has caused thousands of Africans to return to their villages in the last twenty years , giving up their Government jobs for which they were never paid or even got their rations . |
| 22 | Most Bangladeshi mothers breastfed their babies for the first few weeks , switching to either combination or bottle feeding after this period . |
| 23 | There , Daf workers who are made redundant will receive 70 per cent of their wages for the next four years . |
| 24 | Voters left two dominant impressions as they queued in the hot sun — their determination to cast their ballots in the first free election since Germany began the European conquest of Namibia more than a century ago , and their orderly , disciplined behaviour in the searing heat . |
| 25 | Er , group one seedings , just to let you know , United States who 're in that seeding group as hosts anyway , Germany as the holders , and then former winners , Argentina , Italy , Brazil , and Belgium and it 's all , all based on their , their results of the last three competitions . |
| 26 | Although many of the leading manufacturers , including SmithKline Beecham , have changed the formula of their drinks in the last few years so that they contain less sugar , dentists say they 're still getting far too many cases of two , three and four-year-olds with decaying milk teeth . |
| 27 | The authors published their reports at the 2nd Benoxaprofen Symposium in June , by which time the firm had the full texts of the assays . |
| 28 | Yesterday , the FA also studied film of Saturday 's ill-tempered north London derby and will issue their findings within the next 24 hours once they have received referee Alf Buksh 's report . |
| 29 | Their hosts for the first few days , the Lord of the Isles , Sir Alexander Macdonald , and his wife Jane , a relative of Boswell 's , waited on the shore at Armadale , a small , dirty , sandy horseshoe of a bay , to greet them . |
| 30 | Even the most solid-looking dinosaurs may have changed their habits in the last few years ! |