Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the management of CEO Denis Brown , and financially re-structured ( UX No 402 ) , the company has been profitable for the last six quarters and is once again in growth mode , although margins are down and international sales weak . |
| 2 | Lysis , a self-funded company , profitable for the last three years , sells direct in the US and Canada and through resellers in the Pacific Rim and South America . |
| 3 | It caused us a lot of extra work , major changes and more travel to get it right for the second larger meeting . |
| 4 | The firebox and boiler of No. 3822 were equally packed out too , as WSR Driver Dave Williams and Fireman Gareth Winter had the engine just right for the first four-mile assault on Crowcombe Bank . |
| 5 | It 's an , a small number of , of viruses which constantly shift , and the WHO organisation which monitors flu viruses around the world , is responsible for seeing that the vaccine is made from strains that are in circulation currently , and , and we 've been getting it right for the last ten years , so I , I think there 'll be no problem this year . |
| 6 | You should make sure that you are adequately covered from the start , because the likelihood of a dog running away from home is probably greatest during the first few months of ownership . |
| 7 | Sabrina opened the top file and leafed through the first few invoices . |
| 8 | In fact , the revenue has been stable for the last three years . |
| 9 | As regards the cost implications of these shifts , although the over-85s are heavier users of costly services than younger age groups , the heaviest financial cost of the elderly arises from pensions not from services and , to repeat , the total pensionable age group will remain stable for the next two decades . |
| 10 | She felt poorly for about one month but then seemed to recover and felt somewhat stable for the next 6 weeks . |
| 11 | Well if Mark Bosnich was the man of the moment in midweek the name on everyone 's lips during the week during sorry during the last twenty four hours has been Bobby Gould . |
| 12 | Many course combinations are possible during the first three years , facilitating transfer between these three streams . |
| 13 | Again , as last week , try to be as physically active as possible during the next 24 hours , avoiding temptation by doing something outside the kitchen . |
| 14 | A single budded standard , or a double where one has failed , can look distinctly lop-sided for the first few years until it has had time to develop — this is the sort of stuff you have to watch out for in the cheap ‘ end of season nursery clearance sales ’ and street markets . |
| 15 | As everyone was by then in a state of complete exhaustion they did little for the next two or three days except sleep . |
| 16 | Without tailing his futures position , Roy must bear the additional cost of financing the payment of variation margin of ( 53 500 - — 53 000 ) × 1905 = £952 500 for the next three months , that is , £952 500 × 0.02411 = £22 965 . |
| 17 | The effect here is that during the last five years the Conservatives have played no part in the management of this county whatsoever , and it has been left to the other two parties to come to an agreement . |
| 18 | While chicken may be growing fatter , pork has become leaner during the last 10 years . |
| 19 | My suggestion is that the evolution of subcutaneous fat in neonates and post-natal depression is an example of co-evolution and what has happened is mothers are programmed to be depressed for the first few days after birth because in primal conditions when remember this is where evolution set the parameters of human behaviour , in primal conditions it would probably pay a mother to test her new-born offspring to see if it could survive , because if it was defective or if it was sickly , or if there was some reason why that baby could n't make it to adulthood and its own reproductive life , that mother should not invest in it , because that 's her reproductive success . |
| 20 | But the shock left me nervous and depressed for the next few days . |
| 21 | It was a matter of time , most steps had been taken , ‘ We are leaving St-Jean to avoid talk ; we shall have to be reasonably discreet for the next few months or so . ’ |
| 22 | More than 680 homes were sold in January , rising to 750 for the first three weeks of this month . |
| 23 | Tony said he had felt happier after discharge from hospital and that his father had been less critical and more supportive during the last few days . |
| 24 | I do n't know whether enjoyed it as he was sound asleep for the first 8 miles , but he certainly was n't complaining either — a merciful relief ! |
| 25 | ‘ She had been depressed during the last 18 months but I thought she was getting better . |
| 26 | The first clear trend is that the dispersion of gross earnings among male manual workers has changed very little during the last hundred years . |
| 27 | Quote of the Buxton Conference came from American Paul Piana , whose audio-visual about the first free ascent of the Salathe Wall on El Cap proved to be a masterpiece of comedy . |
| 28 | She realised that she had only been half alive for the last four years . |
| 29 | And he added : ‘ If I were an American , I would be saying thank goodness there have been some musicals to keep Broadway alive for the last 10 years . ’ |
| 30 | Tokyo : Stocks closed lower for the third consecutive trading day . |