Example sentences of "[noun sg] for the [num ord] four " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government 's overall aim was to freeze spending on state-owned enterprises , social security and defence for the next four years . |
| 2 | Subject to budgetary approval , the plan ratified by both houses of the federal parliament will mean growth of 16 per cent pa in the science budget for the next four years . |
| 3 | ‘ And of course Julius has lived like an absolute monk for the last four years , ’ Jessamy threw back at her angrily . |
| 4 | Well erm , I 've just come up and and the accident so I 'm only entitled to money for the first four days . |
| 5 | Mineral revenue for the first four months of 1990 was calculated at US$1,075,600 . |
| 6 | As head of Radio 2 's music department for the last four years , Ms Line has been responsible for the blend of easy listening that makes up 80 per cent of its 24-hours-a-day output , along with presenters such as Derek Jameson and Jimmy Young . |
| 7 | Thompson , in an interview on BBC Television 's Sportsnight programme , says he is neither pessimistic nor optimistic about his prospects for the Games but is convinced he can still be an athletics force for the next four or five years . |
| 8 | In fact , you 're a girl who 's going places — once you 've untied yourself from this man who 's been like a millstone around your neck for the last four years . |
| 9 | And our consultant has been running varied recycling for the last four years , and they are currently recycling seventy percent of the waste in that town . |
| 10 | He said Hong Kong could face a ‘ period of political siege for the next four years followed by an abrupt transition to a harsher and more repressive regime . ’ |
| 11 | It was Alexander Herzen ( 1812–70 ) who , having emigrated to the West in 1847 , began to give currency to what was to be the dominant theme of the revolutionary wing of the intelligentsia for the next four decades . |
| 12 | Woodacon has sponsored the team for the last four years and would like to take this opportunity to wish them all well for the future . |
| 13 | Unix International ( UI ) claims the RoadMap will show that the GUI — an issue which has bedevilled the Unix community for the last four years — ‘ is separable from the operating system . ’ |
| 14 | In Spring and Autumn , the traditional publishing seasons , lists of forthcoming books with substantial annotations give a good indication of the content of the publisher 's output for the next four month period . |
| 15 | This means accepting that the Westminster majority — the Tories — will set the agenda for the next four to five years ; and that Labour 's role is simply to legitimise the Tory programme by playing our part as Her Majesty 's official and loyal opposition . |
| 16 | The ACCA refuses to sanction the event at any other location , and Sydney , despite claiming rights to stage the race for the next four years , has yet to build a Grand Prix circuit . |
| 17 | For the first three weeks you will be alternating aerobic walking with moderate walking for the first four days each week , followed by one day 's rest . |
| 18 | Lewis has held the world light heavyweight title for the last four years and was conceding five stone to an opponent rated highly by the Americans . |
| 19 | That 's what I 've been doing six days a week for the last four or five weeks . |
| 20 | S A Wahid , the owner for the last four and a half years , has asked publishers to cancel all dues and catalogues . |
| 21 | and the party as a whole played only a junior role for the next four years . |
| 22 | So I left again and lived with this other woman for the next four years , but the relationship was ruined because Marie would n't leave us alone . |
| 23 | A suggested admissions policy for the next four years is that new first year students should be admitted each October to bring the total student numbers to 10% more than the previous October . |
| 24 | Executive Director of the Tour , Joe Flanagan , says : ‘ It is not a pleasant task to tell a girl that she is off the Tour for the next four weeks , or in a few cases , a whole year . |
| 25 | The relationship between society and the state has been a central concern of western political and social thought for the last four hundred years , one crucially bound up with attempts to understand and evaluate the character of new social , political , economic and intellectual forms associated with the development of a capitalist world economy . |
| 26 | Teesside , who have won the Inter-Union strokeplay championship for the last four years , will be hoping to extend their unbeaten run when they entertain Harrogate Union at Middlesbrough golf club in a fortnight 's time . |
| 27 | Her entire gross profit for the first four months had been negated by shoplifting tots . |
| 28 | This tuck stitch is easy to work on the Singer Big Nine and you can see from this sample that by working with a lighter shade for the background for the first four pattern repeats followed by a darker one for the background , similar amounts of yarn have been used over the same number of rows . |
| 29 | South African all-rounder David Callaghan , 27 , who missed most of last season fighting cancer , has been included in the squad for the first four of the seven one-day internationals against India . |
| 30 | You can see on the Covermaster , on an escalating plan , it 's twenty percent each year for the first four years . |