Example sentences of "[pron] for the [num ord] [num] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I want to thank you for the last five minutes . ’ |
| 32 | I had to practically bite my knuckles to keep my hands off you for the last three weeks , and I did it because of your innocence ! |
| 33 | She 's got to put up with you for the next six months or more ! ’ |
| 34 | We 'll stick with you for the next three months , with fresh advice on the latest findings in psychology and exercise , and more glorious recipes . |
| 35 | The current campaign positioning for Johnnie Walker Black has remained true to itself for the last two and a half decades . |
| 36 | Well erm I 've just come off holiday and so I wo n't be entitled to none for the first four days . |
| 37 | Erm then you know that would be something whereas if they say well the recession 's so bad we have n't taken anybody for the last five years and your researches ca n't unearth anybody who seems to be prepared to er give you even half a chance then I mean |
| 38 | But she was going to have to keep the door open to him for the next twenty years and , like it or not , it was something that she would have to come to terms with . |
| 39 | Pain relief is important in myocardial infarction , but let that not be an excuse for filling a patient with opiates and then forgetting about him for the next 2 hours as he quietly rots his myocardium in some corner of the accident and emergency department . |
| 40 | Mr Davidson 's father , Robert Snr , said Mrs Holmes had been working for him for the last eight years . |
| 41 | ‘ We have him for the last five games of the League run-in . |
| 42 | With surprise , Juliet realised he was referring to his hospital episode , when she had nursed him for the last two weeks of his stay . |
| 43 | Subconsciously he must have been expecting something like this : his first reaction was not surprise but an intensification of the dull misery which had enveloped him for the last 24 hours . |
| 44 | She 'd slaved for him for the last seven year , and before that ever since she was born — eight or nine year was it — at the Old Mint ? |
| 45 | When the Zombie had finished his walk , a more permanent method of protecting her for the next four months would have to be found . |
| 46 | But the marriage plan for Matilda was now dead , and within a few months her father was killed in a border skirmish , and we hear no more of her for the next seven years . |
| 47 | This was discussed at length with Janet , after which it was agreed that the therapist would see her for the next 2 months at fortnightly intervals and that no more than one telephone call per week would be acceptable . |
| 48 | And that 's it for the first six thirty show of this week . |
| 49 | If a child has it for the first ten years hardly anything else matters . |
| 50 | They scarcely left it for the next two weeks , their passion putting her dreams to shame . |
| 51 | There Rowicki created the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra , building it from scratch and directing it for the next five years . |
| 52 | Teesdale District Council turned down an application for the sign on the ground of it contravening the town area local plan but the inspector said it was acceptable and allowed it for the next five years . |
| 53 | She was to keep it for the next three and a half years . |
| 54 | Well , can I propose we try it for the next three meetings , and |
| 55 | I 've managed it for the last four years , have n't I ? ’ |
| 56 | At the beginning of this erm programme he admitted that we had an excellent education service in Oxfordshire , and he 's now , having taken no part in managing it for the last five years , he is now claiming that in fact it 's due to what happened before . |
| 57 | I do n't know exactly how long , but I 've been aware of it for the last eighteen months . |
| 58 | The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 . |
| 59 | I have grown it myself for the last twelve years , in a small colony in a north-facing border which maintains itself by self-sown seedlings . |
| 60 | Manager Sue Surrey is seen here being presented with the southern regional quarterly audit prize by Eugene Kertzman and CCG client Ewart Wooldridge , and she has no doubt about the reason : ‘ CCG has been here for 12 years , myself for the last seven , and you can put our success down to working together as a team . |