Example sentences of "[vb base] for the [adj] [num] " in BNC.

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1 The deal is a timely boost for Scotland 's top steeplechase after a long , fruitless search for support following the decision by William Hill , sponsor for the past 15 years , to pull out after last year 's race .
2 But you 've got to make a mental leap , because I mean for the last five years , things have been pretty horrible , since eighty seven really , I mean we 've only had the pick up in the last year .
3 Sinn Fein account for the other two Northland seats in the form of Mitchel McLaughlin , who moved from Cityside and newcomer Mary Nelis .
4 ‘ Well , exhausted or not , you wo n't be getting much sleep for the next four days .
5 There was also still a feeling in the Hollywood colony that as he had established himself as a star he should not play an unattractive character , and , what is more , he would only be the second lead and not appear for the first twenty minutes .
6 I asked at the meeting of the city board and I asked on more than one occasion , and did n't get a proper answer , what the labour group intended to do with the three point two million pounds that will build up in reserve say for the next three years .
7 SECOND division BEDFORD have appointed former Bristol and England flanker Mike Rafter as their new coach after parting company with New Zealander Ian Snook , coach for the past three years , Snook is now expected to join Old Wesley in Dublin .
8 RICHIE DIXON , the Scotland B coach for the past three seasons , has been promoted to helping to coach the senior team .
9 Despite the recession , support for the Top 100 has been heartening .
10 Buy a 944 — or wait for the forthcoming 968 .
11 How would they like a stranger to be in control of the way they look for the next six months ? ’
12 Look for the Australian Five Crown Sultanas which are perfectly delicious .
13 The causes of this are not entirely clear , but were probably a combination of the increasing costs of warfare ( as the empire came under severe pressure from the barbarians across the Rhine and Danube , and from the Persians in the east ) and of the exhaustion of the Roman mines in Spain , which seem for the first two centuries AD to have provided an important contribution to the difference between Rome 's income ( taxes ) and expenditure ( especially on war ) .
14 But what does Mr Li 's brand of socialism portend for the 1.1 billion people who endure life in the world 's most populous nation ?
15 Unix , House believes , will dominate the open systems market for the next five years .
16 And these reduced payments continue for the next 3 years — as you can see from the chart below .
17 George and Tony Sabin have been keeping the streets of Stow-on-the-Wold in the Cotswolds clean for the past three years .
18 Following blast at its offices at Charlemont Place in Armagh , spokesman Paul Jackson said students should not telephone the board or call for the next two weeks until the backlog of work has been cleared .
19 For instance , it is estimated that around 1m of the 1.7m new jobs forecast for the mid 1990s will be in the professional and managerial areas , and demographics suggest that a substantial proportion of them will have to be filled by women .
20 Although students belong for the entire five years of study to one particular section , much of the teaching is done cross-sectionally .
21 I think these proposals not only are a way forward but also in light of what is actually happening in the area of Highfields with er the high numbers of unemployment , with the high rate of people underachieving in education I think for the last two and a half years there has been no clear guidelines or structure that has systematically brought about any results in the two centres to move forward where people have lost out by this issue being bureaucratic and a political football that 's being kicked about and I think it 's about time where we now have cross party consensus that we move positively forward and work towards these proposals .
22 What you do for the first two years is you learn all the theory of being a doctor and you go and you have to between eight of you , learn all about a body you have one body between of you and you learn all about all the muscles and the nerves
23 You put those , you ai n't got oh no , fair enough just play for the one five P then .
24 The calendar of events form for the next six months period which should be completed and returned before 2 MARCH 1990 .
25 New technology and more international competition will eventually create more jobs than they destroy , as they have for the past two centuries , if they are only given a chance to work .
26 Now , is it any wonder why American businesses in Singapore have for the last 5 years registered a remarkable 25% average rate of return .
27 One of the contexts in which we are exercising ministry is that we have for the last fifty years well I have n't personally !
28 I have for the last two years been closely involved with an EEC forecasting study — The Forecasting and Assessment in Science and Technology ( FAST ) Biosociety subprogramme .
29 We will continue to protect its value against price rises , as we have for the last 13 years .
30 We have tried to sum up the fragments of information which we have for the last three centuries in our second chapter , ‘ Glimpses of a Lost History ’ .
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