Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] the [num ord] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swallowing hard on the disappointment , Andy spent the next few years taking even more blows on the chin . |
| 2 | Aenarion walked the last few leagues over the haunted plains on foot . |
| 3 | Robert Stevenson checks the first few metres of each weaving when it is removed from the loom . |
| 4 | Mark Sanders spent the next few days in his office , working late into the night to finalise the ten year European Business Plan and to summarise the massive document into a sixty minute presentation illustrated by thirty slides . |
| 5 | Lloyd claimed the last half hour , but when he was out at 233 for 4 he indicated that as far as he was concerned that was that . |
| 6 | Seb spent the next few days wrestling with very tangled emotions . |
| 7 | For the browsers there is Golf : The Golden Years , a pictorial anthology by Sarah Baddiel celebrating the last few years of the 19th century and the first 40 or so of the 20th . |
| 8 | TI 's Sparc marketing manager Phil Campbell said the first few lots of the reconstructed chip will be coming off the line in December with volumes following sometime during the first quarter . |
| 9 | The light was bad but Peter deciphered the first few lines of the left-hand page . |
| 10 | Crewe finished the first half the stronger and were possibly unlucky not to go in with a lead , the Leeds defense was looking fragile ( Fairclough was back at central def. — agghhhh ) , the midfield ( esp . |
| 11 | Leith spent the next few minutes in accepting that somehow she was going to have to pay her brother 's share of the hefty monthly repayment as well as her own for the next seven months minimum . |
| 12 | Leith spent the next few minutes in a panic . |
| 13 | Prince Charles spent the next few months planning a new invasion , to be financed by the sale of his late mother 's jewels . |
| 14 | Sigarup and Murti Lāl followed the last few through the gap , whistling long and low , a final command to stop and be still . |
| 15 | As for the future , McIntosh says the next few years will be easier . |
| 16 | Thomas Telford ran the last few yards to the pump site . |