Example sentences of "[noun] for the [num ord] seven " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bitterness and the troubles of the coal mines for the next seven , or for that matter twenty-seven years , derived in great part from the feeling of both miners and owners that they had been betrayed . |
| 2 | Mr Cooney said the reason Northern Ireland had received only £1.04bn European funding for the next seven years , while the Republic got £7.8bn , was because the province did not have its own negotiators in Brussels . |
| 3 | PSBR for the first seven months hit £20.2bn , up from £8.7bn previously . |
| 4 | More aircraft provided cover , with Coastal Command Blenheims dropping smoke to screen landings and fighter-bombers — again Blenheims and Beaufighters — putting a protective umbrella over the raiding force for the next seven hours by flying 400 miles ( 650km ) from Wick , north Scotland , or 250 miles ( 400km ) from Shetland . |
| 5 | She stayed with the Cohens for the first seven or eight years of Leonard 's life . ) |
| 6 | A royal charter , read aloud by a villager on horseback , proclaims Seamer Fair to be open for business for the next seven days ; but it is not , nor has it been for the last fifty years . |
| 7 | has been Head of Christian Aid 's Latin America/Caribbean Group for the last seven years . |
| 8 | She was of course referring to the Salisbury Annual Pleasure Fair that has been held for three days commencing on the third Monday in October for the last seven hundred years . |
| 9 | Then they were divided into various groups and given unlimited normal rat food and water for the next seven days . |
| 10 | If the adventurers agree to help the Collective Ghost , it will fade into nothingness , but return each dawn and dusk for the next seven days . |
| 11 | Peter Scudamore has been king for the last seven seasons … but now its Richard Dunwoody 's turn to lead the race … he 's the best they say … the finest horseman … they all want him to win … suddenly the pressure 's on |
| 12 | I eat a minimum for the next seven days . |
| 13 | He says that they 've had a three man gang picking up peoples rubbish for the last seven years . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's a dangerous fight my heart will be in my mouth , ’ said Eastwood , who has guided Hodkinson 's career for the last seven years . |
| 15 | THE Horndean Meals on Wheels has been run magnificently by Jean Pinsent for the last seven years — and in expressing their appreciation , Petersfield WRVS tell us that she is retiring . |
| 16 | Thames Transit has been running bus services in Oxford for the last seven years . |
| 17 | I 've been working in watercolours for the last seven years , but this particular picture is quite experimental for me . |
| 18 | Every seven years representatives of the eight magical colleges in Altdorf meet to decide which of them will reign as the Supreme Patriarch for the next seven years . |
| 19 | Mrs Shahidi , of Herne Hill , south-east London , who lost £121,000 , and Moussa Armand , 70 , of Acton , west London , who lost £300,000 , intend to eat no food for the next seven days as part of the long-running campaign to persuade ministers to provide more help for BCCI victims . |
| 20 | MINERS at Monktonhall colliery have not been paid any wages for the last seven weeks in an effort to ease the venture 's cash-flow problems , it was revealed last night . |
| 21 | Work will continue around the clock for the next seven months . |