Example sentences of "[adj] in the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | You will hear more of this in the last half hour of the conference . |
2 | We discuss this in the next two sections . |
3 | It became increasingly clear in the next two years that the change in leaders and policy had served only to weaken the Party still further . |
4 | How he will now speak of the methods used last weekend by the security services could become clear in the next few days . |
5 | are easing now and er should be clear in the next few minutes , due to the accident having been cleared from the carriageway . |
6 | It had been made clear in the last few days , he said , with low-paid workers in North Ayrshire having their wages cut to join a trust while senior managers at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh awarded themselves BMW cars . |
7 | ‘ If we do n't see something sensible in the next 24 hours then there is no point in carrying on , ’ he said . |
8 | It had become increasingly claustrophobic in the last few weeks . |
9 | Société Générale , one of the country 's biggest banks , had to raise provisions against dud loans by more than half in the first six months of 1990 . |
10 | The current year , the ninety three ninety four year I have figures only up to the end of December and in comparison to the previous full twelve months the number of applications is almost as high in the first three quarters of the year but the fee income is about half what had been received for the full previous year and that is the problem that we 're facing , that the number of applications , the amount of work is , is staying the same or is indeed increasing slightly , er but the fee income , because of the nature of the the applications and the fee regime that is charged , is actually falling off quite rapidly . |
11 | Staff turnover has been high in the last few years as school closure has loomed closer . |
12 | Bill had held the position for two years and saw the team achieve two of their best-ever results , sevenths in the last two World Championships . |
13 | ‘ We 've got to be more ruthless and more direct in the last third of the field . ’ |
14 | While all the leading players at the Masters have been asked about the prospects of the US regaining a title won by the British in the last four years , the Australians have been quietly asserting themselves . |
15 | The structure turned out to be very durable ; most of the colonial constitutions set up by the British in the next three-and-a-half centuries show similarities to the Virginia Company 's way of doing things , though there were sometimes refinements , such as a legislative council created as an upper house to work with the assembly ; and in several cases — especially when the majority of the population was not of British descent — the legislative body was appointed rather than elected . |
16 | FEW PEOPLE seemed particularly interested in the second annual Leadmill-hosted festival . |
17 | General Motors approached the Smithsonian six or seven years ago asking if we would be interested in the last Cadillac convertible from its assembly line . |
18 | Three other people had also said they were interested in the last few days . |
19 | A break of 96 had suggested the possibility of a fight back but Doherty eliminated such thoughts with breaks of 40 and 53 in the next two frames . |
20 | Two months after the military crackdown in Beijing in June 1989 , it was announced that university student intake would be cut from 640,000 to 610,000 in the next academic year , and that " specialities mainly in the social science fields which the State has deemed for a long time to have turned out personnel not qualified for socialist construction " would be suspended . |
21 | At least 30 per cent of all ICI sales in this product area are expected to convert to ‘ Dumpy ’ 2 in the next three years . |
22 | Now of course , some people might say well the Iranians er have n't covered themselves with glory one way and another in the last few years , and that of course , is true . |
23 | Silver production had been lower than average in the first seven months of 1989 . |
24 | And all that let me tell you after Pisa looked so dangerous in the first eight minutes , clearly they 'd come out looking for the early goal themselves , and who was badly fouled by in the early stages and needed attention , he 's the number eight , and the number eleven , who looks as quick as any player I 've seen in ages and ages , they are the two danger men and they will need some marking . |
25 | Kerr also recalled playing against a pioneer of ‘ Bodyline ’ , Fred Root , at Worcester , and seeing both Hobbs and Sutcliffe score hundreds in the last first-class match of the tour for H.D.G. Leveson Gower 's XI at Scarborough . |
26 | Cos you get a lot of snow in Germany but we have n't had much in the last two years . |
27 | It 's more the ‘ bells and whistles ’ of museum life which have grown so much in the last fifteen years , like restaurants , shops , publishing , which should be left to the private sector , and which generate important revenues for the museum . |
28 | ICL , now 80% owned by Fujitsu Ltd , says margins on its hardware sales have shrunk as much in the last 18 months as in all the five years preceding , and it aims to drive revenues from its services business even higher as it focuses more on that market , through organic growth , joint ventures , marketing agreements and by acquisition . |
29 | It would be immoral for me to give up on my son ; I have been through so much in the last three years , ’ she said . |
30 | Cairns added : ‘ I 've learned so much in the last few weeks and coping with failure and disappointment is one of them . ’ |