Example sentences of "[det] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As half of the first full-time two man drug squad in the North-East of England , I was tasked with defining and dealing with the new social aberration of ‘ flower power ’ , ‘ the counter culture ’ , and the ‘ psychedelic trip ’ . |
| 32 | But I reckon the company has made CPP losses in more than half of the last 15 years . |
| 33 | Bull has already revealed details of its Integrated Systems Management effort , based around the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Management Environment , and is now working on some of the first practical applications to run on top . |
| 34 | Some of the first newly-planned settlements were established by Victorian industrialists themselves , but a long process of government legislation culminated in the passing , between 1945 and 1950 , of comprehensive Town and Country Planning legislation , including provision for New Towns and National Parks but also a characteristically negative policy toward the expansion of cities themselves . |
| 35 | With a dry wit and an infectious Brooklyn drawl , Karen , as part of the Flatbush-based Soulboys group of club-runners , was responsible for some of the first illegal parties in New York , as well as having the much-coveted job of doorperson at various Manhattan clubs . |
| 36 | Both were headed by Prof. R.B. Le Page , who had produced some of the first linguistic studies of Jamaican Creole about twenty years previously ( Le Page 1961 ; Le Page and De Camp 1960 ; Cassidy and Le Page 1980 , originally published 1967 ) . |
| 37 | Timber staithes remain at this port on the River Tyne , some of the last such structures built in the nineteenth century as wharves for unloading coal from the railway on to waiting ships . |
| 38 | The difference between those spending all and those spending some of the last twelve months in a home persisted when the analysis is confined to those for whom relatives responded . |
| 39 | But when he suddenly took ill and returned to Hollywood to undergo surgery for lung cancer , his son Christopher helped polish up some of the last few scenes . |
| 40 | Bankside was the work of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott , OM , the architect of Liverpool 's Anglican Cathedral , the rebuilt House of Commons and some of the last vital products of the Gothic Revival . |
| 41 | He should admit that his efforts have supplied few of the first 999 floors . |
| 42 | You will hear more of this in the last half hour of the conference . |
| 43 | We discuss this in the next two sections . |
| 44 | Société Générale , one of the country 's biggest banks , had to raise provisions against dud loans by more than half in the first six months of 1990 . |
| 45 | Yet one study showed that about one in five of all premarital pregnancies occur in the first month of a sexual relationship , and half within the first six months . |
| 46 | ‘ I want Surere caught and brought here ; and I want him tried and executed , and I want this before the next public rest day , ’ he repeated . |
| 47 | Now of course , some people might say well the Iranians er have n't covered themselves with glory one way and another in the last few years , and that of course , is true . |
| 48 | But the inter-relation of this to the first five public relations functions is sometimes overlooked by marketing departments in their desire to measure brand sales achievement directly to brand public relations tactical results . |
| 49 | It would not surprise us to see something like this over the next few months . ’ |
| 50 | The third reason why we 're , we 're pleased to see you here is that erm as a trades council , we 've and this er and Dick mentioned this in his introduction , we 've initiated a major international programme , major in terms of our size obviously as er as a local body , involving links between union activists here primarily in France er , in northern France , but also links now developing in Spain with the new ferry going between Portsmouth and Bilbao , we 're starting to meet with the unions in Spain who are interested in speaking about the , the , the differences in wages in terms and conditions working for the same ferry company , doing the same jobs in the port , a comparative look at how the , the wages terms and conditions differ and we want to , we want to go and visit them in the autumn and , and work out , and work on more links on a sector basis , so that our colleagues down in Bilbao in northern Spain can link up with people in the , in the , in similar sectors here and we 've done this over the last three and a half years with the unions in France , we 've had exchanges of all sectors , the public sectors , transport , erm , health , social services , shop workers . |
| 51 | THE NUMBER of army bands is to be cut by half over the next two years — but all Scottish regimental pipes and drums have escaped the axe . |
| 52 | The government meets three quarters of the costs of section eleven projects , but that 's being cut to half over the next two years . |
| 53 | According to a study by Italy 's joint chiefs of staff , a manpower shortage may lead to the army being cut by up to half over the next 20 years . |
| 54 | This exasperating weekday practice prevents us seeing at least 10 minutes of each of the first two sessions of paly . |
| 55 | The in-betweens , a group of five fields ( Cumberland , Durham , Derbyshire , Lancashire — or Northwest — and Northumberland ) which provided the 55 per cent vote at each of the first two ballots but on average produced only 42 per cent support for the strike call across the other four . |
| 56 | There was a daughter by each of the first two marriages . |
| 57 | The participants had decided to walk 20km on each of the first two days and finish by walking 10km on the last day . |
| 58 | Additionally , a further ‘ outside ’ course is taken in each of the first two years . |
| 59 | Geology comprises one third of the curriculum in each of the first two years of study . |
| 60 | During each of the first two years after diagnosis , gastrointestinal symptoms recorded on standardised forms were classified as quiescent , mild , moderate , or severe as defined in Table I. For all 100 patients , the influence of anatomical localisation of disease , sex , severity of gastrointestinal symptoms , duration of daily prednisone use , and of nutritional intervention on the height velocities during each of the first two years were analysed by multiple regression analysis . |