Example sentences of "[prep] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And end up the same circumstances we was now , er with out the stuff that we 'd we were paying for for the next six months of the year . |
| 2 | I do yeah absolutely as as as the first few times we did it you know . |
| 3 | Erm , that report is not in the bundle of documents before your lordship at present because we were notified er er as as the sixteenth of November er that thetted , a unitary stat unitary authority and County Hall is |
| 4 | I am talking about during the First World War , you see . |
| 5 | His mind drifted over the people whom he had heard about for the first time that morning , groping for some sort of perspective . |
| 6 | Keep the date free in your diary — October 13th , 1991 , at the National Agricultural Showground , Stoneleigh , Warwickshire — for a once-in-a-lifetime experience people will be talking about for the next 100 years . |
| 7 | Their first innings made only 205 , with 57 from Smith and 43 from debutante Bailey ( whose reward , after failing in the second innings , was to be dropped against Sri Lanka , one of the most astonishing pieces of selectoral crassness for years ) ; but on the second morning , in real sunshine for about the first time in the rubber , Foster bowled splendidly to decapitate the order . |
| 8 | Harrington 's fortunes rose steeply for about the first 150 generations . |
| 9 | What we normally do is get together with the rhythm section for about the first week or so — and it 's just heaven because you 're just a small band . |
| 10 | Choose a factor 8–10 for about the first five days , but be guided by sun intensity and location . |
| 11 | For about the first 12 years of its existence the centre was carried on as an unincorporated organisation . |
| 12 | If , if you look at their work , for about the first hundred years after all of them , their work was widely , er , disparaged and rejected . |
| 13 | ‘ What 's the matter , San ? ’ the fat woman asked for about the fifth time since they had all trooped in out of the cold . |
| 14 | for about the fifth time |
| 15 | For about the seventh time Folly walked over to the vase on the mantelpiece which held the flowers he had sent her that morning . |
| 16 | ‘ They had just been reconciled for about the 18th time and when work forced them apart he started on the vodka . |
| 17 | For about the hundredth time , I cursed whatever kleptomaniac curmudgeon had walked off the train with my bag . |
| 18 | She put my book down , said for about the fourth time how sorry she was that she 'd missed my reading , but she 'd simply felt too shaky . |
| 19 | a decision in detail as to where it should be in the short term ( one year ahead ) and a longer-term plan for about the next three to four years : |
| 20 | We met Stevie Nicks right after that and for about the next four years we were in a band in the northern California area . |
| 21 | Erm he 's in Scotland for about the next month , but I 've asked him to do the recordings in the next week . |
| 22 | He will , however , be away for about the next six weeks . |
| 23 | ‘ What I 've been using for about the last five years are Seymour Duncan amps . |
| 24 | It turned out that he was a heavy drinker and smoker , who had not been running for about the last 20 years . |
| 25 | As a project engineer , I 've been using a similar document for about the last six months . |
| 26 | I was saying to this bloke at work West Ham must be the only positive transfer to give West Ham pay for about the last twenty five years |
| 27 | For example I found myself in a warehouse in Manhattan , where the New York Public Library keeps a lot of its records , and I discovered an enormous deposit of papers of , of an organisation which was actually very strongly against the minimum wage , which appeared not to have been touched for about the last — sixty years ? |
| 28 | ‘ Did you , ’ Markby asked patiently for about the third or fourth time , ‘ intend to make her fall ? ’ |
| 29 | I went to the flicks — I wanted to see Some Like It Hot for about the tenth time and it was being revived at Baker Street . |
| 30 | Isabel asked Ellen for about the tenth time . |