Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | In the next few weeks the first lucky 10 will take delivery of the fatest road car in the world . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In a reaction , therefore , to these problems the last few years have seen two major changes in approach . |
| 7 | As a result of these constraints the first practicable date for the sale is this July . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Holiday was in many ways the first modern pop vocalist . |
| 10 | In most insects the 1st abdominal segment , and more especially its sternum , is reduced or vestigial . |
| 11 | 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 . |