Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the [num ord] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frankly , the only people I can think of who need to go as low as 850 calories a day in order to achieve a pacey weight loss on the F-Plan are small , rather sedentary women , only a few pounds overweight , and those struggling off the last few pounds of excess weight after a prolonged dieting campaign . |
| 2 | During January , six planets are visiting your sign , so to say that life 's likely to be busy , fun and demanding for the next few months is an understatement . |
| 3 | Blenching at the last few miles , shivering as sweat and dew ran down their backs , they turned into Donald Gillies 's yard at Camserney sawmill . |
| 4 | He could n't go back now , not after all the planning and scheming of the last few months . |
| 5 | I was looking down at my plate , licking my finger and picking off the last few crumbs , transferring them to my mouth . |
| 6 | Avoid rigorous vacuuming and shampooing during the first few weeks after your new carpet has been fitted . |
| 7 | With the crews overlapping until the last few minutes of the 4¼-mile race , it had been a gruelling test for all . |
| 8 | ‘ I will be issuing directions to judges on sentencing in the next few days . |
| 9 | People who give up cigarettes very commonly report explicit ( and guilty ) dreams about smoking in the first few weeks , even though there is every reason to believe that sleep actually becomes less disturbed on withdrawal from nicotine . |
| 10 | ‘ We will be looking over the next few months to see what longer term solution can be devised . ’ |
| 11 | DAVID ANDERSON , chairman of Australian Mutual Provident , Australia 's biggest life insurer , and Einion Holland , chairman of Pearl Group , the British life insurance company , are meeting over the next few days amid speculation that the Australian group is poised to mount a takeover bid for Pearl worth at least £1bn . |
| 12 | While the trend toward increasing the integration has only just begun , we are still awaiting Frame Technology 's launch of FrameMaker onto the Macintosh and , possibly , OS/2 Presentation Manager , it is in this direction that desktop publishing is undoubtedly heading during the next few years . |
| 13 | Almost everyone has a story to tell about dream incorporation — for instance dreaming about Arctic exploration only to wake up and find that the covers have slipped off and he is freezing cold , or dreaming of bells ringing only to wake up eventually to find that the alarm clock has been clattering for the last few minutes . |
| 14 | Now , however , she sat up in bed and wondered , as she had been wondering for the last few days , what had happened to the spider . |
| 15 | What the hell do you think I 've been talkin' about the last few minutes ? |
| 16 | The Group will continue to provide support for Central America Week in March , and will be investigating in the first few years of the five year period the possibility of raising the profile of the Andean countries . |
| 17 | Because of the increasing use of complex machinery and sophisticated farming methods , many of those engaged in agriculture require managerial and supervisory skills and it is to this area of provision that the agricultural colleges should be turning in the next few years . |
| 18 | The buzzard population in the province has been growing over the last few years and is believed to currently stand at 650 . |
| 19 | Then nine tenths of the rubbish they 've been printing for the last few weeks will be seen for what it is . |
| 20 | Cornwall has kept the Championship flag flying for the last few years and has continued to emphasise my own view that such a competition could have an important place . |
| 21 | Although he never weighed more than 175 pounds , he had the build of a heavyweight from the waist up , and he fought the world 's leading heavyweights , with few of his fights lasting beyond the first few rounds . |
| 22 | Her body was already responding , although her mind was still stubbornly clinging to the last few threads of resistance . |
| 23 | Because I am delighted to report that education standards in Wales have been rising over the last few years following the introduction of the national curriculum and our other reforms . |
| 24 | ‘ What I 've been doing in the last few weeks , long overdue , is to match up these various components . |
| 25 | As a result of preparatory work , programmes will be starting in the next few months in Uganda and Tanzania . |
| 26 | That 's what I 've been doing over the last few days . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ What we have been doing over the last few weekends is exercising our right to search someone if we have a reasonable belief that they are carrying a weapon , ’ said Mr Wood . |
| 28 | Numerous food scares and the dramatic rise in reported cases of food poisoning over the last few years , plus the need to comply with European Community requirements led to the Food Safety Bill , now nearly two years old . |
| 29 | This brought a swift end to the Marquis 's exploits and he and La Tour had to go into hiding for the next few years . |
| 30 | I think it ought to be made clear that the the voices that you can hear , or will be hearing in the next half an hour or so will be that of the television . |