Example sentences of "[pron] for the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The corridors of the BBC are long and pea-green ( the 1984 setting of Orwell 's book , reputedly ) , and I followed a uniformed attendant through and round them for the obligatory ten miles before happening upon Studio B10 . |
| 2 | ‘ And we have n't had a penny from them for the past two years or more . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been chewing them for the past twenty minutes ! ’ |
| 4 | My thoughts this evening are much centred on Bishop Harris as he prepares to lay down the ministry which has been his for the past 14 years . |
| 5 | It was certainly a surprise to Watney 's , which for the previous four months had been planning its own takeover bid for Truman 's , so that it could close the high-cost Mann 's site . |
| 6 | As Shevardnadze put it in a speech to foreign ministry staff in 1987 , they represented a country which for the previous fifteen years had been ‘ more and more losing its position as one of the leading industrially developed countries ’ . |
| 7 | They chose Milan as the venue because of the presence of two schools which for the previous ten years had pursued the Pure Oral System , or the German System as it was more commonly known , and to help to give the Congress credibility , they chose as the President one of the schools ' headmasters , while the other school 's headmaster was Secretary . |
| 8 | At 07.30 , the Allied artillery , which for the previous 65 minutes had been firing at its greatest intensity , lifted . |
| 9 | Much of the blame must be laid at the door of the disorganised America 's Cup Organising Committee , who for the past 10 months have been on the brink of bankruptcy . |
| 10 | But that 's cold comfort to the players who for the past two months or so have been attempting to qualify for the PGA European Tour . |
| 11 | By allowing the Bill to pass through the House unamended in respect of premium rate services , they are condoning everything that is being done by those who for the past six years have been offering pornographic ’ services ’ . |
| 12 | Roger Boyes , who for the past three years has been the Leeds finance director , will become acting chief executive from next Monday . |
| 13 | ‘ I should n't have asked you for the extra two-fifty mils . ’ |
| 14 | I 've been trying to get hold of you for the past two hours ! ’ the man exclaimed harshly as he stared down at Laura , who was gazing back at him as though she 'd seen a ghost . |
| 15 | ‘ My dear , your real mother has been looking after you for the past twenty years , ’ said Miss Rose sharply . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been waiting for you for the past three hours , pacing the corridors , wearing out the carpet . |
| 17 | Hill 's ban ended in time for the 1987 World Cup but Bristol 's Richard Harding , who replaced him for the final Five Nations match — a stirring victory over Scotland — was first-choice in Australia and Hill 's last game for two years was against the United States . |
| 18 | Jazz 's target was to stay with him for the full four minutes . |
| 19 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 20 | We 've heard nothing from him for the past four months since that heart attack in Italy . |
| 21 | The same sight would confront him that had confronted him for the past fifteen years . |
| 22 | When they ignore the whole idea of pandering to a European market , they can be quite good , as in Tarkovsky 's Italian-funded productions , where he just carried on making the same film that had obsessed him for the past 30 years , only a bit more slowly . |
| 23 | If you 've got some new material on him that you want to share with us , I 'm more than happy to arrange another lecture for you later in the term , but frankly , as you 've apparently given the same lecture on him for the past ten years , I can hardly be accused of interfering with academic freedom , can I ? ’ |
| 24 | I am certainly going to miss him , I have only really known him for the past seven days , but it seems like years . |
| 25 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 26 | Liz Ablewhite was offered , and graciously accepted , the Alethea Ward Scholarship in Natural Sciences ( an annual college award specifically designated by Dr Ward , 1853–1935 , for female students of medicine from the County of Yorkshire , her own home county ) , the goal towards which her mother had been directing her for the past ten years . |
| 27 | I thought about it for the prescribed two days , chanting , ‘ How do I get her to sign the form ? — How do I get her to sign the form ? ’ , then switched on the wireless in the middle of a biblical play about Moses and God 's voice boomed out of the speakers : |
| 28 | If , however , he believes in the right to a free and independent trade union , let him grant that right to the employees at the Government communications headquarters , who have been denied it for the past eight years . |
| 29 | Guido 's won it for the past two years and he 's absolutely desperate to get a hat trick — though some of his rivals are equally desperate to see that he does n't . ’ |
| 30 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |