Example sentences of "[det] [noun] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cases the first three years of life are spent in this ward before transfer to a children 's home . ’ |
| 2 | President Julio Lacidar said that although the country was backward in some respects the First Five Year Plan would help launch the new nation . |
| 3 | Was this chancellor the next prime minister ? |
| 4 | In this crisis the last parliamentary Cabinet resigned and was replaced by a ‘ business cabinet ’ ( Kabinet karja ) headed by Djuanda , not identified with a party . |
| 5 | We are lucky enough to be living during a warm period ( interglacial ) of this ice age , but our luck can not last forever ; at some time during the next few thousand , few hundred or even just few years the next cold period ( glacial ) will commence unless humanity 's pollution contributes so much to the greenhouse effect that global warming prevents the glaciers from spreading . |
| 6 | Through this device the first German republic sought to preserve the role of the so-called ‘ free ’ welfare associations , foremost the established churches , which had become the key providers of welfare services ( Sachsse , 1988 ) . |
| 7 | In the next few weeks the first lucky 10 will take delivery of the fatest road car in the world . |
| 8 | He remains to this day the third highest League scorer in the history of our club with 99 goals in Division 3 South — for only two centre-forwards , Peter Simpson and Ted Smith , have ever improved on that figure , and of course no winger has ever approached it . |
| 9 | In this respect the first Merovingian code was at least perceived by men of the seventh century as being different from its Visigothic and Burgundian counterparts . |
| 10 | As I say this this fellow the last twenty minutes are the best I 've seen Leicester City play for a long long time . |
| 11 | This year the 44th Eucharistic Congress will be held in Korea from 5th to 8th October . |
| 12 | This year the last four students from our present training courses took the Medau Teachers ' Examination on 11th June and we are happy to report that all passed and are now qualified Medau Teachers . |
| 13 | from the first , an Australian marathon runner , take out the first two letters of his forename. from the second , an American sprinter , we want another two letters , this time the first two from his surname . |
| 14 | That wis the last wan ever . ’ |
| 15 | That evening the first annual dinner was held . |
| 16 | In trying to overcome these problems the first republican government of 1931-33 set the stage for things to come ; the political alienation of both the right and left wings of the political spectrum in Spain . |
| 17 | In a reaction , therefore , to these problems the last few years have seen two major changes in approach . |
| 18 | As a result of these constraints the first practicable date for the sale is this July . |
| 19 | It is not generally known that among the sculptured panels at the top of the Library facade , there is one featuring two children fingerspelling at each other the first two letters of the alphabet . |
| 20 | In many ways the first two UDCs could not have possessed more diverse characteristics nor could they have differed more greatly in their potential to transform their respective areas from derelict urban landscapes to localities resonant with dynamic private sector activity . |
| 21 | Holiday was in many ways the first modern pop vocalist . |
| 22 | In any event the last three novels juxtapose fathers and sons in an effort to gain access to or leverage upon some further thing . |
| 23 | A third round of talks was held in May , and in the same month the first direct charter flight between the two countries was made [ p. 38191 ] . |
| 24 | At the same time the first inter-denominational ministerial conference met at Grindelwald , in Switzerland . |
| 25 | Wijdenbosch had been Prime Minister of the military-backed government responsible for the 1987 Constitution allowing in that year the first general election since 1977 [ see pp. 35758-59 ] . |
| 26 | At that time the first five of the ladder party must be standing ready by the window with the ladder . |
| 27 | In most insects the 1st abdominal segment , and more especially its sternum , is reduced or vestigial . |
| 28 | A subfamily of the Ophiacanthidae with a sack-like disk covered with thickened skin or thin scales which often carry spinelets or granules ; radial shields variable in shape , either rib-like with only the distal ends not covered by scales or short with most of the plate visible ; the jaws distinctly longer than broad ; one or sometimes as many as three large blunt apical papillae flanked on each side by three to many oral papillae ; in most genera the second oral tentacle pore arising superficially or nearly so and the associated tentacle scales often forming a continuous series with the oral papillae ; the oral tentacle scales often spine-like and larger than the oral papillae , except in Ophiolimna where the second oral tentacle pore is obscured by a large opercular distal oral papillae ; nearly all genera with well developed elongated adoral shields and a large oral shield ; the tentacle pores of the arm mostly large and often with small spine-like tentacle scales although some genera with smaller pores armed with well developed tentacle scales ; the arm spines relatively short usually only slightly longer than one arm segment . |