Example sentences of "and [verb] for the [adj] [num] " in BNC.

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1 If anything it is the managers in family health services authorities and the NHS who have failed to anticipate and plan for the first three of these contingencies that has caused the current workload crisis .
2 Now aged 38 , Harwood has been making things , perfecting techniques and designing for the last twenty years but is barely known outside a small group of cognoscenti .
3 After all , private-sector returns have been above 5% and rising for the past five years .
4 ‘ I certainly felt badly in need of a rest , having trained and played for the last two to three years virtually without a break .
5 Sister was then transferred to Wythenshawe , and worked for the last 13 years on the chaplaincy team of Wythenshawe Hospital .
6 But Labour ‘ won ’ on a minority vote and governed for the next five years .
7 The excavations , a joint venture between British and Italian authorities ( Provincia d'Isernia ) and directed for the last twelve years by the School 's director , Dr Richard Hodges , have shown that for a brief period in the early ninth century San Vincenzo was an exceptional place with far-flung connections .
8 Tens means more running rugby and more rough and tumble for the top 16 sides in England .
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