Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Tebbit , the ex-party chairman and MP for Chingford , asked Mr Hurd ‘ whether the pledge that we have given for the last four general elections , that there would be no further large-scale immigration , still stands or not ? ’ |
| 2 | Fairly soon one realises that red means melodrama , and blue means romance , and you wonder if you have stumbled across the first romantic novel of the post-communist era . |
| 3 | Average property yields have fallen for the second consecutive quarter to 9.2pc , according to property agent Hillier Parker . |
| 4 | COT deaths in England and Wales have fallen for the third consecutive year , Government figures revealed yesterday . |
| 5 | Cases of salmonella food poisoning in Britain have trebled in the last three years and are at an all-time high , according to government statistics . |
| 6 | But when the money runs out and they ca n't afford to pay for any more care patients have to wait for the next financial year . |
| 7 | In Birmingham , the dealers have gathered for the 11th British Antiques Fair ( Thursday to the following Wednesday ) , while over the Border , there is still time to catch Pen Panting 's second one-man show , at the Glasgow Print Studio . |
| 8 | Rising costs , a more sophisticated travelling public and much greater competition from numerous holiday attractions , which have developed within the last 10 years , have made it virtually impossible to run two commercial railways in such close proximity . |
| 9 | Two million have enrolled in the last twenty one years . |
| 10 | Paul and Sarah Davison retained the junior doubles title they have won for the last two years . |
| 11 | ‘ We have reviewed the results and the fact is we lost as many as we have won over the last two seasons , ’ said Bates . |
| 12 | Its peculiar feature is that the main raw material , pig bristle , is bought from a monopoly supplier , China , and it is imports of Chinese paint brushes that have quadrupled within the last three years . |
| 13 | We have noticed over the last few months at Cadogan Travel seem to be noticeably more expensive than the other travel agents used by Christian Aid . |
| 14 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
| 15 | I have searched through the last Conservative party manifesto . |
| 16 | I am afraid that while this ban is in force my wife and I will not be trading in Darlington as we have done for the last 20 years . |
| 17 | Mrs Thatcher , who returned from the United States last night , said : ‘ Everything we have done in the last 13 years will be conserved and built on into the future . |
| 18 | The exact timing of the sensitive period differs between species ; domestic chicks , for example , only follow objects they have seen during the first three days after hatching , whereas for mallard ducklings , the phase lasts for 10–15 days after hatching . |
| 19 | Certainly , we have seen over the last seven years in Britain new educational legislation of a kind which is having a profound influence upon practice in education departments and schools — for better or for worse . |
| 20 | Here 's the list I 've made so far — all the children I have seen in the last three weeks . |
| 21 | Now try to change the following to improper fractions : unc As you have seen in the last few questions , improper fractions Numerator are " top heavy " . |
| 22 | The aim of this research is to investigate the role of money income targets for a small open economy such as the UK , and their relationship with policies designed to avoid fluctuations in the exchange rate of the magnitude we have seen in the last few years . |
| 23 | How much money has been spent and how many animals have suffered during the last eight years ? |
| 24 | But Souness last night stressed that James is not being made a scapegoat for Liverpool 's disastrous start , nor for the eight goals they have conceded in the last two games . |
| 25 | ‘ This report surely demands a rethink by both the Government and the senior management of BR of the policies that they have adopted over the last 10 years . ’ |
| 26 | We have Adopted in the last few years , the Modular Education System . |
| 27 | Requests to Darlington council for help with housing have tripled in the last three years , according to Labour . |
| 28 | It is merely the application of some basic rules of human behaviour that researchers have uncovered over the last hundred years or so . |
| 29 | Such a myth is integral to the salient cultural paradigm of our times and which we have possessed for the last three centuries . |
| 30 | Identify the contribution to profit you have made in the last four weeks . |