Example sentences of "i [vb base] [prep] the [adj] [num] " in BNC.

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1 But you 've got to make a mental leap , because I mean for the last five years , things have been pretty horrible , since eighty seven really , I mean we 've only had the pick up in the last year .
2 I mean over the last two years it 's been shock horror headlines , you know , will endowments fail to repay the loan , are endowments good value and I ke some of the journalists I 've read bef over the last two years have actually completely reversed what they said t two years ago when P E Ps were declining because of poor share markets and bonuses were coming through quite nicely on the endowments , they said oh endowments are the thing to do .
3 But I , I mean through the nineteen fifties there is a reasonable measure of co-operation between the Russians and the Chinese and then from the beginning of the nineteen sixties and onwards there is conflict between Russia and China .
4 I think companies well in fact B and Q erm recently announced that er not recently I mean in the last eighteen months they 've started to have their er stores erm
5 Well I thought well I 'll , just think about what I want with the last five pounds .
6 This matter has caused me great concern and problems early in the Parliament , but I hope in the next 24 hours to show where my true attitudes lie .
7 ‘ I think I need 350,000 points to guarantee selection , and I will pass that total if I finish in the top two tomorrow , ’ said Lane .
8 I refer to the estimated twenty five percent of all water pumped that leaks away in broken mains .
9 And I suppose over the last twelve month we must have had as many as a dozen of such inquiries wanted their stamp franked .
10 I suppose in the nineteen fifties we all thought that was the answer to energy production , but there seem to have been a lot of problems over these since then .
11 She 's very concerned and the present line partial though it be , represents a a blight situation on that , on the , on potential er occupants of that line and certainly erm I find myself more in in er agreement with Darcy 's views than I do with the other two councillors of East Grinstead , that 's not er not secret
12 The bells have far more impact , and tempos are more extreme — to the benefit of the first two fast movements , but to the detriment I think of the following two slow ones ( which reminded me why I had not responded more positively first time round ) .
13 I think these proposals not only are a way forward but also in light of what is actually happening in the area of Highfields with er the high numbers of unemployment , with the high rate of people underachieving in education I think for the last two and a half years there has been no clear guidelines or structure that has systematically brought about any results in the two centres to move forward where people have lost out by this issue being bureaucratic and a political football that 's being kicked about and I think it 's about time where we now have cross party consensus that we move positively forward and work towards these proposals .
14 I have for the last two years been closely involved with an EEC forecasting study — The Forecasting and Assessment in Science and Technology ( FAST ) Biosociety subprogramme .
15 I have for the last ten years been writing software using Clipper database and would like to improve the front end on some of the software .
16 But I want you to understand that , in making up my mind , I did not forget the country or the Commonwealth which , as Prince of Wales , I have for the last 23 years tried to serve .
17 But I have over the last six months had occasion to discuss this very matter with a number of very highly placed Americans , and it seems to me that thinking in that country is much more far-sighted than that represented by their countryman here .
18 ‘ I just hope I can keep shooting birdies like I have in the first two rounds . ’
19 I think I 've been up and down to the Big Smoke more times since Christmas than I have in the past two years — and the jaunt next weekend — at long last Mark & I have managed to use a Boots free train ticket voucher — two of us for £45.55 — Baaargain !
20 I learned more about coaching sprinters by reading this book than I have in the past 30 years in the sport .
21 Eric , I reported to the C E C on Saturday night when presenting the , the Health Service Conference report , that I would be making a detailed report to the next er , meeting of the Public Services Section Committee on resources er , on what I see in the first five month of my er , ten year of office er , what , what we need to do , to play our part in the public service , to extend ourselves within the er , the Health Service .
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