Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [adv] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , you begin to ask yourself what would you see as important to accomplish in the next six months , the next 12 months and maybe the next couple of years . |
| 2 | They were particularly vulnerable during their first 12 months and about a third of them did not live to reach the age of 10 . |
| 3 | However , despite a varied programme there has been great difficulty in gathering support for the other functions and indeed the last one had to be cancelled . |
| 4 | For statistical reasons and because of the ever changing pattern of pedestrian and vehicular movement at treated sites and elsewhere the first Plan argued for an annual ‘ gross ’ target reduction of 60 casualties . |
| 5 | Having played so well for the first two rounds and then the first three holes of the third , by which time he was tieing for the lead with Parry at 10 under par , Woosnam came to grief immediately after the Saturday storm . |
| 6 | In the mornings we were let off the chains , four of us in pairs and then the fifth and last man on his own , to use the bathroom and to exercise for maybe half an hour . |
| 7 | In particular , it did not prevent Robert Hersant from creating , from 1950 and from nothing , what became by the 1980S France 's biggest newspaper publishing group -over 40 titles totalling over one quarter of the circulation of the regional dailies and over a third ( 38 per cent ( of the national daily press . |
| 8 | Although the responses were generally supportive , ‘ practically everybody expressed some reservations and about a third expressed serious reservations about particular features ’ . |
| 9 | Women make up over two-fifths of APA boards and committees and over a third of its main governing bodies . |
| 10 | In terms of an element in their appeal antislavery reformers saw this line of argument as an effort to exploit the material interests of public and policy-makers and even slave-owners and therefore a second order argument only , despite their ability to relate liberal economics to a conception of the natural order of things . |
| 11 | Walking through the village on any racing day one would hear conversation like , " What do you know today Fred " and the reply would bring forth such words of wisdom as " Watch Richards in the 2.30 " , or " Back top weight " for these men had a language of their own and in the evening , meeting over a pint the locals would discuss the downfall of the favourite or starting prices and often the first greeting one would get on opening the door of the bar was " How did you get on today " Tich " " , and often the reply was " First and second , Fred " . |
| 12 | The method used for climbing steep ice which employs the two forward facing points and perhaps the first two of the downward ones . |
| 13 | By the age of seven , more than half the boys and nearly a third of the girls were being hit at least once a week . |
| 14 | She was far to the west of her east European breeding grounds and only the third spring red-breasted flycatcher record for Spurn . |
| 15 | Nearly a quarter of the forty were in unskilled factory jobs and over a third have done typing or general office work . |
| 16 | Those who believe that klaxon horns or traffic lights ( as used elsewhere ) , would more securely given warnings overlook the long tradition of the British flagman , one of whom by law carried a red flag before the early railway locomotives and then the first motorcars . |