Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] the [num ord] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In response to the proposed new guidelines the FMLN , which had demobilized the first 20 per cent of its forces in June [ see p. 38957 ] and a further 20 per cent on Sept. 21 , agreed to disband the next 20 per cent on Oct. 31 ( on which date it duly proceeded with the disarming of some 1,000 guerrillas ) , a further 20 per cent on Nov. 20 and the final 20 per cent on Dec. 15 . |
| 2 | But although Mansell has won the first four races this season , he 's trying not to be over-confident about making it five . |
| 3 | Palacio has won the last two , but I doubt whether he has much ambition left to extend McMillan past the eighth round . |
| 4 | Reid has won the last two Ulster rounds in the series at Temple and the Mid-Antrim 150 while James Courtney sneaked in to take the round at Dundalk . |
| 5 | What makes Ross Perot think that he can get a handle on the US budget deficit that has defeated the last two administrations ? |
| 6 | Allen , who has missed the last four games , said : ‘ I must admit I was a little concerned and went to see the same specialist that did the operation on my groin before . |
| 7 | Anderton , who has yet to score in the League , has missed the last five matches in which Spurs have extended an unbeaten run to seven games while beating the likes of Liverpool and Blackburn . |
| 8 | Saints ’ coach Mike McClennan also hopes Kiwi George Mann , who has missed the last five matches with a back injury , will be fit to resume . |
| 9 | Mardenborough , who has missed the last three games with a medial ligament injury , could be sidelined again after he pulled out of Wednesday 's reserve game at the last minute . |
| 10 | ‘ I just now want to win the last two races in Japan and Australia and then it 's a new career for me . ’ |
| 11 | We 're going to continue with this objective in the coming months in this , the third series , but before we get totally immersed I want to use the first three programmes to stand back to take a more general look at what universities are about today . |
| 12 | ‘ Next , ’ said Amaranth , who had let drop the first two scarves on to the heads of the assembled press men , ‘ we have Gerald Kaufman , all vinegar and no chips . ’ |
| 13 | On to golf now and Colin Montgomerie has reached the last four of the Toyota World Matchplay at Wentworth . |
| 14 | Evelyn Lachennes widow of a British war-time spy , Pierre Lachennes has devoted the last ten years to studying the effects of chemical weapons on civilian populations wherever they 've been used . |
| 15 | A novelist I know has devoted the last 20 years to writing stuff that is completely impossible to film , with the result that he has not been published for some time . |
| 16 | Children born in the United Kingdom to students , visitors or illegal immigrants no longer automatically acquire British citizenship at birth , but they will still be able to register as British citizens if either parent later becomes a citizen or settles in the United Kingdom , or if the child has spent the first ten years of its life in the country . |
| 17 | Instead , she has spent the last two years working on a book chronicling Basque life through its kitchens and markets . |
| 18 | It started life as a graduation film and he has spent the last two years finishing it . |
| 19 | Britain has spent the last 100 years fighting against the facts of German power : indeed our modern national identity has to a great extent been forged in the fires of the great conflict with Germany while our sense of our moral worth rests in part on our role in the defeat of Nazism . |
| 20 | A friend of mine in her late thirties has spent the last five years building up a successful business . |
| 21 | Dr Mitchell has spent the last five months getting people to write to the Royal Mail Stamp Programme Manager in London to lobby for a set of stamps honouring his father 's work . |
| 22 | The Gloucestershire company has spent the last five years building up an export market in America with department stores now taking their products . |
| 23 | She has spent the last 18 months researching and writing the kind of cookbook which brings all the old fun and the sheer sensual pleasure back into cooking — and eating . |
| 24 | Quintus has spent the last 18 months developing similar customised solutions for a clutch of customers including Intel Corp , HaL Systems , Exxon Corp and Hewlett-Packard which is setting up a worldwide internal help desk with its software . |
| 25 | Mr Stephenson said he sympathises with Det Supt Keith Readman , who has spent the last 18 months trying trace Mrs Heron 's killer . |
| 26 | Reportedly UI has spent the last six months explaining its vision to these companies ( UX No 391 ) . |
| 27 | The Scottish Gallery has an exhibition of paintings by Roderick Carmichael , an Edinburgh-born artist who has spent the last 10 years in Australia . |
| 28 | The A 38 , David Buss has spent the last 20 years working at different places along the road that join Nottingham and Cornwall . |
| 29 | The A 38 , David Buss has spent the last 20 years working at different places along the road that joins Nottingham and Cornwall . |
| 30 | UK fourth-generation language company Cyberscience Plc , of Hoddesdon , Herts , has spent the last three years making its transition from proprietary Data General technology over to open systems , and now reports that the majority of its sales are for Unix-based systems . |