Example sentences of "in [noun sg] for the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result is a bucking of current trends with the growth in spending outstripping rises in income for the first time in three years . |
| 2 | I am soaked , cold and not a little lacking in enthusiasm for the next try . |
| 3 | WITH the two main floodlit tournaments in Junior Rugby just around the corner , many clubs are looking forward to the opportunity to sharpen their skills in preparation for the first batch of league matches . |
| 4 | In preparation for the second round , Nebot , presenting an image of an energetic young leader , made public overtures to Bucarám on May 16 which hinted at the possibility of a populist alliance . |
| 5 | OVER THE NEXT NINE MONTHS Wolfgang stayed at home in Salzburg , learning arithmetic ( which he enjoyed ) , Latin , and Italian in preparation for the next trip . |
| 6 | Training after a main event should be much less dynamic and should concentrate on improving technique in preparation for the next competition . |
| 7 | She was moving back on board Wavebreaker in preparation for the next day 's early departure . |
| 8 | I knocked her weight down an eighth of an ounce in preparation for the next flight , but the next day the weather was too bad for flying , so I ‘ fattened ’ her up again . |
| 9 | This information seems to fit in well with the growing body of sporting opinion that good physical fitness training is intense , punctuated by good amounts of rest in preparation for the next effort . |
| 10 | Suggestions , in preparation for the next meeting , for those procedures that we still have to review , the procedure owners are going to put the information to us in one of two ways , if it is a minor modification procedure small changes of wording things need to be uncontroversial , we will resite the procedure with red line and strike out in the way that Jenny procedures have been prepared and circulate before the meeting . |
| 11 | 3 The leading arm then withdraws back to the body in preparation for the next move . |
| 12 | Corbett , ignoring Ranulf 's pleas and remonstrances , told them both to get a good night 's sleep in preparation for the next morning . |
| 13 | When acceleration or deceleration is complete the transistor switch is opened and the capacitor can then recharge in preparation for the next speed change . |
| 14 | I 'm sure you already have too many papers to read , but since I have spare copies I have enclosed a background paper we received on a European coastal conservation strategy , and a commentary on the EC and the Ramsar Convention in preparation for the 5th conference of the contracting parties of the Convention . |
| 15 | Where a member of the Parliamentary Labour Party is representing this party in parliament for the first time the above ( normal ) procedure shall be set in motion not earlier than eighteen months after his or her election as Member of Parliament . |
| 16 | He is under 13 stone in weight for the first time since his teens . |
| 17 | When , for example , establishment actor Raymond Massey saw James Dean in action for the first time on the set of East of Eden , emitting as he did a stream of sexual and genital adjectives , Massey stormed off the set declaring , ‘ I have never experienced anything like this in my entire life . |
| 18 | Krabbe 's comeback GERMANY 'S double world sprint champion Katrin Krabbe will be back in action for the first time since the lifting of her doping ban , at a meeting on her home Neubrandenburg track on June 13 . |
| 19 | ‘ However , if the wrist heals sufficiently I hope to be back in action for the second race or , at the worst , the third . ’ |
| 20 | Then in practice for the next race , at Jarama in Spain , he suffered another accident , severely damaging his wrist . |
| 21 | ‘ We have lost two League games in succession for the first time since August . |
| 22 | Rangers ' goalkeeper , who has a valid claim to the title of Britain 's best by his displays in Europe this season , has missed two matches in succession for the first time since joining the club from Hibs and will not train today . |
| 23 | Next day — possibly anticipating that the fighter defences had been crippled by the attrition of the 22nd. , the Axis appeared in force for the first time in some days as a further convoy reached the island . |
| 24 | Between 1712 and 1716 the lots were sold to about twenty different persons : the same rents remained in force for the next century . |
| 25 | Deputies from the SPA , in opposition for the first time , abstained from the vote . |
| 26 | The film is bogged down in exposition for the first hour , remains plodding , and shifts uncertainly between protagonists . |
| 27 | He sold Grove Chance , then in foal for the first time , to his neighbour Percy Thomas , but when she died shortly after giving birth to Norton 's Coin he bought back the foal . |
| 28 | The article also states that the burden of proof that a standard term has been individually negotiated falls on the seller or supplier , but given the provisions set out in the previous paragraph , it is hard to see how this burden can ever be discharged , unless there has been an individual negotiation at which both parties actually discussed and wrote out the clause in question for the first time . |
| 29 | Gloucester again relinquished peripheral holdings in exchange for the last addition to his Yorkshire estates in March 1478 , shortly after the execution of Clarence . |
| 30 | Gloucester again relinquished peripheral holdings in exchange for the last addition to his Yorkshire estates in March 1478 , shortly after the execution of Clarence . |