Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have discouraged the use of adjectives in the last two chapters but here you can see them used with superb skill . |
| 2 | The company is aiming for three generations of products over the next few years . |
| 3 | The company is aiming for three generations of products over the next few years . |
| 4 | Karsten foresees a mass culling of products in the next six months and a polarisation into four big brands : Guinness ' alcohol-free lager Kaliber , Bass ' low-alcohol market leader Tennents LA , Whitbread 's White Label low-alcohol bitter and his own Clausthaler as the ‘ premium imported ’ brand . |
| 5 | As an example of the geographical comparison of normal patterns we can compare the relative incidence of coins of the first two centuries AD in two different areas such as Britain and Italy . |
| 6 | You were set up for life with them , ’ Olive Fitzgerald of the Samaritans , bracing for a flood of calls over the next few months on their telephone helpline , told Reuters ' man . |
| 7 | The value of exports in the last three months was 13 per cent higher than at the corresponding stage last year , and volume alone was 11 per cent up , while imports were 20 per cent more in value and 15 per cent up by volume . |
| 8 | Staff will hold a series of meetings over the next few weeks to decide how to respond to the cuts plan . |
| 9 | BRITISH National Party leaflets calling for the re-introduction of hanging and forced repatriation will be sent to thousands of homes in the next few weeks . |
| 10 | The fast-swimming Dall 's porpoise has been particularly hard hit in the North Pacific and hundreds of thousands of animals over the last 20 years have been entangled in the giant drift-nets of the salmon , squid , and tuna fisheries . |
| 11 | The voluntary scheme has the backing of the government , which is providing £13 million of funds for the first three years . |
| 12 | Karrimor intent to spread these improvements down their range of rucksacks during the next two or three years , though it is clear the benefits are greater for the big load carriers . |
| 13 | The mixed probes for the largest subunit hybridized with fragment SD , and more specifically , with the smaller subclones RT and RN' ; the mixture of probes for the second largest subunit recognized fragment SB , and fragment RK within the former one ( data not shown ) . |
| 14 | She followed this advice and had no further attacks of herpes in the next six months . |
| 15 | Over the past few months , we have been following a series of sermons on the last few chapters of Paul 's letter to the church in Rome . |
| 16 | Yesterday Mr Mandela began a three-day tour of the Natal Midlands , cockpit of the virtual civil war between the ANC and Inkatha which has claimed thousands of lives over the last three years . |
| 17 | I 've heard hundreds of judges in the last few years and Mr is one of the very few who , in , in every picture delivers a very picture . |
| 18 | She 's made just a handful of films in the last 20 years , but the actress says she does n't miss the silver screen — she prefers to dedicate herself to children 's charity work instead |
| 19 | NORWICH are setting themselves the toughest of targets over the last nine games of the season as they bid to become champions . |
| 20 | Now , the few timbers remaining after a spate of attacks in the last two months have been replaced with metal panels . |
| 21 | Tourism continued to do well in 1990 with the number of arrivals in the first nine months of 1990 5.5 per cent higher than in the corresponding period of 1989 . |
| 22 | Instead it was the visitors who made the early running , albeit by the narrowest of margins in the first three games . |
| 23 | There have been an enormous series of changes over the last ten or fifteen years , and maybe some school teachers would be glad if it slowed down a little bit to make their life a little easier , I do n't know . |
| 24 | I ca n't believe there 's going to be the same sort of changes in the next 50 years . |
| 25 | In the UK , statutory maternity pay is 90 per cent of earnings for the first six weeks of maternity leave and then a lower rate of £39.25 for a further 12 weeks . |
| 26 | If we can work together to achieve both sets of rights in the next ten years or so , we will have done , I think , a fantastic job . |
| 27 | There is no order of hymns in the First Spiritualist Church . |
| 28 | The relationship between syntactic and semantic processing has been a central concern of psycholinguistics for the last two decades . |
| 29 | This gradual build-up of reps over the first 3 sessions will reduce the amount of stiffness and soreness experienced in the muscles at the start of the programme . |
| 30 | I hope to gradually increase the number of pages over the next few issues , if funds allow . |