Example sentences of "[det] [prep] the [num ord] four " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the longer she spent with Nathan Bryce the harder it was to accept that for the next four weeks her only escape from him would be in sleep . |
| 2 | But there are at least four levels of understanding clearly discernible in a biblical view of faith and each of the first four categories of doubt runs parallel to one of these levels . |
| 3 | ‘ Between 30 October 1984 and 9 January 1985 each of the first four plaintiffs entered into a mortgage debenture charging its assets to secure repayment of moneys advanced to it by the first defendant , which was then known as Johnson Matthey Bankers Ltd . |
| 4 | Already a giant American sports management group reckon that Christie could earn up to £1million for each of the next four years . |
| 5 | Britain 's share of world trade in manufactured goods fell to one third by 1900 and was further reduced in each of the next four decades . |
| 6 | Agreement was reached on April 3 to increase wages by 25 per cent in each of the next four quarters , in exchange for productivity increases , but on the following day IUM representatives announced that since the strikers ' political demands were not being met the strike would not be suspended . |
| 7 | Real have won the championship in each of the last four seasons , so that is almost taken for granted ; his job is to win the European Cup , which the club last lifted in 1966 . |
| 8 | She could conceivably be denied by Kitrina Douglas , the winner of this season 's St Moritz Classic and European Masters , although even if she were to win each of the last four tournaments , she still might not make up the £30,000 deficit on De Lorenzi . |
| 9 | In each of the last four games there 's been speculation that Lou Macari was taking charge of Stoke for the last time . |
| 10 | Karen Rowbottom from Cobham branch was cruelly deprived of the winner 's title again this year , not only in the singles but also in the doubles final — virtually identical to her results for each of the last four years . |
| 11 | Women with their womb-smelling warmth , their talcum powder and milky breasts had seen to that in the first four weeks of life . |
| 12 | We have set out our plans in ’ Britain 's Defence for the 90s ’ and we are proceeding to implement those over the next four years . |
| 13 | The worlds relevant to assessing the right-hand side of the principle of closure are the nearest group in which q is true , and the nearest group in which q is false , i.e. completely different sets of worlds one of which may be , as in our actual example , far more remote from our world than are any of the first four groups . |
| 14 | The only disappointment was that after opening up a 50-point lead at the beginning of August , they failed to win any of the next four matches . |
| 15 | Methods of co-ordination and formal consultation were needed ; deputy heads acquired a new significance , and their number increased ; headship itself changed in character , more rapidly than in any of the last four centuries , and the language of management science supplanted simpler models of leadership or autonomy . |