Example sentences of "[prep] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Choose a factor 8–10 for about the first five days , but be guided by sun intensity and location . |
| 33 | For about the first 12 years of its existence the centre was carried on as an unincorporated organisation . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | ‘ What 's the matter , San ? ’ the fat woman asked for about the fifth time since they had all trooped in out of the cold . |
| 36 | for about the fifth time |
| 37 | For about the seventh time Folly walked over to the vase on the mantelpiece which held the flowers he had sent her that morning . |
| 38 | Of course while they may be imagining that they are bending my ear and creating a good impression , they are also providing me with the kind of evidence I am looking for about the gendered and generational aspects of this kind of racism . |
| 39 | ‘ They had just been reconciled for about the 18th time and when work forced them apart he started on the vodka . |
| 40 | For about the hundredth time , I cursed whatever kleptomaniac curmudgeon had walked off the train with my bag . |
| 41 | it 's been on for about the past month |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | 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 : |
| 44 | We met Stevie Nicks right after that and for about the next four years we were in a band in the northern California area . |
| 45 | Erm he 's in Scotland for about the next month , but I 've asked him to do the recordings in the next week . |
| 46 | He will , however , be away for about the next six weeks . |
| 47 | Arthur Rackham 's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens in the limited signed edition could be bought in 1960 for around £40-£50 and the Peter Pan Portfolio for about the same amount . |
| 48 | Negotiations for a concordat had been going on between Spain and the Vatican for about the same length of time as those between Spain and the United States . |
| 49 | Mm and old Bob down the road , Bob , he has n't been in for about the same sort of time this 'll be his fourth week wo n't it ? |
| 50 | ‘ What I 've been using for about the last five years are Seymour Duncan amps . |
| 51 | It turned out that he was a heavy drinker and smoker , who had not been running for about the last 20 years . |
| 52 | As a project engineer , I 've been using a similar document for about the last six months . |
| 53 | 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 |
| 54 | 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 ? |
| 55 | ‘ Did you , ’ Markby asked patiently for about the third or fourth time , ‘ intend to make her fall ? ’ |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | Isabel asked Ellen for about the tenth time . |
| 58 | But he felt as well something far greater — the sudden joy of life that he had pleaded for as the old eagle 's right , and in pleading for it then had begun at last to claim it as his own . |
| 59 | it seems to me to perform the functions which we were er seeking through through the proposed Policy three . |
| 60 | Diary entries can be coded in a wide number of ways allowing activities to be carefully tracked and even accounted for through the built-in billing system . |