Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there is no evidence , at present , of drinking water being contaminated in Britain , many reservoirs and lakes have had algal blooms on their surface waters for the last two summers . |
| 2 | Pete Youngman from Pest Control Chester has during the last three years generated over £100,000 worth of business purely through submitting D5 leads . |
| 3 | Not even The Smiths , it seems , could surpass the admiration the man in shorts has for the Fab Four … |
| 4 | Yes once again the Village Fete sees our Fanciful Pretender ready to join the procession as he has for the past 15 years . |
| 5 | The Angolan government , increasingly looking to free market policies to revive the economy , last month joined the International Monetary Fund in Washington , and says , as it has for the past three years , that a devaluation of the Kwanza and the lifting of controls on many goods is imminent . |
| 6 | Its leader , Slobodan Milosevic ( ‘ Slobo ’ to his friends ) , has for the past three years resisted any idea of a looser Yugoslavia . |
| 7 | Now that the work has been completed I hope the church will continue to attract pilgrims to the shrine of St Melangell , as it has for the last eight hundred years . |
| 8 | Interview he sez ICI has for the last two decades looked at ways of helping the environment . |
| 9 | I 've yet to soc totally confirm the number of weeks Mrs wants during the first two sessions that 's up to week fourteen when she wants exactly to do the aids . |
| 10 | English has about the same lix level as the Nordic languages and this enabled Bjornsson to compare Scandinavian newspapers with those from English-speaking countries . |
| 11 | Sale starts during the first two weeks in January . |
| 12 | Money just scrapes into the Top Ten and is of particular importance to men under 24 . |
| 13 | Our results suggest that DNA binding to a sequence over the transcription initiation site is not sufficient for autoregulation as protein VT2 specifically interacts with the HSV-1 IE-3 consensus site yet evidence from transfection assays ( 17 ) and also the recombinant HSV-140 virus ( 13 ) suggests that intact 140k fails to repress this IE-3 promoter . |
| 14 | The only flexibility lies in the remaining forty per cent , which is devoted to research , development , and procurement of equipment . |
| 15 | Nelson and Key played together in punk bands in the late '70s until the latter went to Japan and was taken aback by Tokyo 's nascent Technopolitan revolution , with bands like Yellow Magic Orchestra taking the spirit of Kraftwerk into the 21st century . |
| 16 | Nelson and Key played together in punk bands in the late '70s until the latter went to Japan and was taken aback by Tokyo 's nascent Technopolitan revolution , with bands like Yellow Magic Orchestra taking the spirit of Kraftwerk into the 21st century . |
| 17 | If the debtor has within the last five years been bankrupt , made a composition with his creditors , been subject to a county court administration order or entered into a voluntary arrangement , particulars must be given including the name and address of the supervisor ( r6.39(2) ) . |
| 18 | It is certain much will depend on how the campaign develops in the next three weeks . |
| 19 | The earliest record for spring arrival is of one at Chidham on 23 March 1971 , but arrival always starts in the first 10 days of April , and some movement continues to mid-June . |
| 20 | ( It is interesting to observe that perhaps the most influential art magazine in the West , ARTFORUM , New York , has in the later 1980s not only devoted special features and reviews to photography , but now runs regular columns on television , on news photography and on advertising ) . |
| 21 | But it is a feudalism where inequalities and poverty have been intensified by British colonialism and which has in the last thirty-seven years since independence been in a state of flux caused by the varying stages of capitalism which reach out to it from the towns and cities of the Indian sub-continent . |
| 22 | When I move on to three eight one , three eight two there 's a lot of things been said about these benefits this morning which does n't leave much left for me but looking at the situation of the way this Tory government has in the last thirteen years , certainly since nineteen eighty two crucified the benefits paid genuinely to people is in itself a crime upon society and it reminds me of the the words of the song it 's the rich that get the gravy and it 's the poor that get the blame and nothing , but nothing has changed since those words were written many many years ago . |
| 23 | Those musical orbits described by the fertile planets of Loose Tubes and the Jazz Warriors dominated the polls , with Andy Sheppard continuing to make his individual mark as he has in the past two years . |
| 24 | In the case of Skelton , it has in the past ten years experienced significant residential development . |
| 25 | Even so , the bulk of the increase would have to come from improved yields , as it has in the past three decades . |
| 26 | It is absolutely clear and I want to make it clear that we may not be doing anything tomorrow or the next day , we 'll all be , we 'll all be try to understand and determine is how we will deal with the issues in as and if traffic develops over the next ten years or so and that strategy will then form the basis under which we will try to resist city area that we did not see there . |
| 27 | Despite a worldwide decline in average sperm counts over the past 50 years , those of Finnish men remain roughly twice those of men in other countries , according to Finnish research . |
| 28 | FKB , the UK 's largest independent sales promotion company , has over the past 15 months made half a dozen US acquisitions . |
| 29 | LaBudde documented for the first time , on video and in his diaries , the suffering and death of thousands of dolphins in a tuna fishing practice known as ‘ fishing on porpoise' ’ , which has over the last 30 years killed between 6 and 12 million dolphins in the eastern Pacific . |
| 30 | DG has over the last three to four years put a good deal of energy into reducing that cost base , but now , even with a quarterly breakeven level reduced to $270m from $350m , the company is struggling to make ends meet . |