Example sentences of "[be] [adj] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , the revenue has been stable for the last three years . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Bill Muggeridge , he noted with regret , had been free for the first hour , when Pumfrey and Fenniway had been busy with the Fromes , but was not free again until after lunch . |
| 4 | Sharon 's father has been unemployed for the last three years . |
| 5 | The large bay and steady winds make this centre ideal for practising at your own pace , with our staff ready to assist when you 're ready for the next step . |
| 6 | NORWICH v CHELSEA Norwich , unbeaten but yet to win at home , are unchanged for the seventh match in succession . |
| 7 | Praxis , a 165-person concern founded in 1983 , sees the acquisition as a way of growing its business , which has been flat for the last few years . |
| 8 | She had been married for the last two years , to a man who really was a sewage plant manager ( Slater was quite hurt that Graham thought he 'd invented this detail for the sake of a joke ) . |
| 9 | Double ropes are useful for the first pitch . |
| 10 | Mrs Abercrombie has been incontinent for the last year and is unsuitable , now , for one of our houses . |
| 11 | and that was for that , then I had a letter back to say that we were having , there was too much money coming in a week for me to draw unemployment and then they , then a few days later I had this double page letter a big one that says you are entitled to no prescription help , X amount of pounds after erm eighty pounds per glasses you are responsible for the first eighty pound , we say that you can afford to pay that , so much on your teeth , if you 're visiting somebody in prison then you exceed a certain amount of mileage you can only get it if you exceed more than twenty five pound incurring , then I thought oh blow it , forget it , and I never done it , that all come to then , that 's why I wanted a ten of your wage , wage slips you remember now ? |
| 12 | ‘ It 's amazing how many people who , when you catch them with their trousers down and take a formal sample , will say , ‘ It 's been beautiful for the last two years and just this , just yesterday that this thing went wrong and your chap happened to come . ’ |
| 13 | Well , it 's about why I 've been ex-directory for the last , er , twenty years . |
| 14 | The US , where Tie Rack now has 41 shops , has also been responsible for the first half loss . |
| 15 | I have n't been happy for the last few months and when an old girlfriend asked me out I went along and enjoyed myself . |
| 16 | ‘ But you 've taken me so deep I feel as though I 'm complete for the first time . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It would not , however , be possible for the third defendant to suggest that the third party was in any way guilty of any illegal conduct . |
| 19 | The combination of these two functions in Britain is seen as a safeguard against the development of authoritarian police methods , but it brings other problems , as the methods of public control necessary to one function may not always be acceptable for the second . |
| 20 | Now I 've found out that he is n't my father I 'm learning to be free for the first time in my life , do you understand ? ’ |
| 21 | It would probably be dark for the last half-mile or so of his walk home . |
| 22 | SSP will not be payable for the first 3 Qualifying Days in any PIW ; these are the waiting days . |
| 23 | Steve Douce , the British champion who missed the Nations Cup race at Wolverhampton with badly bruised ribs , is expected to be fit for the second round of the Falcon National Trophy series in Leeds on Sunday . |
| 24 | ERIC Cantona last night threw Leeds a European Cup lifeline by declaring that he could be fit for the second leg against Stuttgart at Elland Road next week . |
| 25 | Leeds midfielder David Batty is winning his fight to shrug off an ankle injury and be fit for the second leg , which his side start 2-1 down on aggregate . |
| 26 | Middlesbrough is hoping its bid will be lucky for the second time running . |
| 27 | By an order dated 8 July 1992 Ward J. granted a declaration on the ex parte application of T. 's father that it would not be unlawful for the first defendant , the West Midlands Regional Health Authority , to administer to T. a blood transfusion in the course of medical treatment despite the absence of her consent , since it was in her best interests . |
| 28 | Er it 's okay to say , yes three or four thousand I 'll play about with and I think Japan 'll be good for the next five years , that 's a different matter , but if you 're dependent on something for income and security , then you ca n't really take a risk profile on , on , on your money . |
| 29 | The incense trade continued to be important for the next 1500 years . |
| 30 | so I 'm stuck for the next three weeks and half a week because I , you know I get the , August bank holiday I get two days , saying that they 're probably going up to Grans for a week in the holidays er sometime to stay with her particularly with her being on her own as well this year |