Example sentences of "[vb past] for the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Il Moro led for the first two legs , New Zealand showed her fearsome ability to climb to windward when she squeezed up from underneath Il Moro to take the lead at the third mark . |
| 2 | Here we lived for the next fifteen years , with the eighteenth-century kirk across the road , and from my study window at the front a clear thirty-mile view across the Tweed valley to the distant Cheviots . |
| 3 | A movement was born that provided for the next four years the reference point for the left , and for artists and what passed for Britain 's Beats . |
| 4 | Early in 1989 his book , A Brief History of Time , toppled my autobiography from No 1 to No 2 on the best-seller list , which positions we retained for the next 13 weeks . |
| 5 | The figures show that the number of pollution incidents rose for the fifth successive year and have doubled since 1985 . |
| 6 | He was at once promoted to lance-corporal but although Travis [ Commander Edward Travis who was chief administrator at B.P. ] tried for the next six months to find a suitable military unit to which Harold could be attached as an officer , he had no luck . |
| 7 | At the decade 's start everything was gloom and doom , cutbacks the order of the day since in 1979 the number of commuters going into London dropped for the tenth successive year . |
| 8 | Little is known of Francis Wright 's early years , but in 1830 , on the retirement of his father , he became the senior partner in Butterley , which he dominated for the next forty-three years . |
| 9 | Though Celtic dominated for the next 15 minutes they failed to kill Dundee off and almost paid the penalty . |
| 10 | Instead he served for the next three yearswith a merchant shipping company . |
| 11 | Sister was then transferred to Wythenshawe , and worked for the last 13 years on the chaplaincy team of Wythenshawe Hospital . |
| 12 | In 1837 he was apprenticed to his uncle James S. Stirling at Dundee foundry , where he worked for the next six years and where some locomotives were built for the Arbroath and Forfar Railway which influenced his own later designs . |
| 13 | And when they died and the fleas had finished feasting on their blood , which was by then putrid and crawling with the bacilli , the fleas looked round for another host , and if they could not find another rat , or any small hairy creature to their liking , they settled for the next best thing , which was usually human . |
| 14 | But , since Cara was supposed to be with her in Czechoslovakia and had said that she 'd be doing her a favour if she did n't ring them , Fabia settled for the next best thing . |
| 15 | As father said at the beginning of gruelling sessions in the vacs , the techniques I needed for the next few years — apart from those concerned with sport — dealt not so much with manual skills but with communication , both written and oral . |
| 16 | So the Irish went for the next best thing , consultative status , getting a toe in the door . |
| 17 | As a result of the bad weather , the Royal Bank of Scotland 's oil index fell for the second consecutive month to 114.5 , the second lowest January since the index began ten years ago . |
| 18 | Your comment was made in a week when manufacturing output fell for the seventh successive quarter and unemployment rose for the 23rd successive month . |
| 19 | America 's industrial production fell for the fourth successive month in January , by 0.4% , to give a 12-month decline of 0.9% . |
| 20 | UNEMPLOYMENT fell for the third consecutive month in April , by 1,400 . |
| 21 | His chances of defending a frail total of 226 slipped away with the steady rain that fell for the last two hours . |
| 22 | The broad measure , M3 , grew by only 1% in the 12 months to December , and actually fell for the last three months of 1990 . |
| 23 | At least , this is how Mary , Freda and I felt for the first few weeks . |
| 24 | The barely acknowledged hope caused her heart to beat faster as she reached for the first round iron latch . |
| 25 | My hands were cold , gloved as they were , and though I wore a jersey , jacket and jeans , I shivered for the first ten minutes . |
| 26 | Edward cried for the next two days , but there was nothing he could do . |
| 27 | As I understand it the Cleveland structure plan proposes the same number of dwellings for erm its next period which happens to be fourteen years , as it did for the last fourteen of the of the previous structure plan , fifteen thousand seven hundred . |
| 28 | She suddenly wanted to throw something at him , anything , needing to hurt him as she was hurting , but could n't actually reach his ambitious heart , so she aimed for the next best thing : his self-respect . |
| 29 | Their heyday lasted for the first five years of the Eighties , when they scored the incredible total of 20 consecutive Top 20 hits . |
| 30 | John 's lamp light lasted for the first few hours of his entombment and from then on he was in total darkness . |