Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the [num ord] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was heavily pregnant but she was questioned and made to wait for the next twelve hours without food or water . |
| 2 | Messiaen began composing at the age of seven , entering the Paris Conservatoire four years later where he was to remain for the next 11 years , winning four premiers prix including that for composition in 1930 . |
| 3 | Such was my father 's introduction to Abyssinia where , except for three periods of leave , he was to remain for the next ten years . |
| 4 | I could see his jeans , shirts , jerseys , everything he needed to wear for the next two days , neatly folded in a drawer in Edinburgh . |
| 5 | As far as I can see , there is not likely to be anywhere for it to go for the next five or 10 years , except east on the A47 or south on the A6 . |
| 6 | And after Haley came Presley , Little Richard , and Fats Domino , laying a freeway through popular culture that outraged left and right alike , and down which successive generations of youth were to drive for the next three decades . |
| 7 | The syn-PLA2 and cat-PLA2 values of patients with the necrotising form of acute pancreatitis had a slight tendency to increase during the first six days whereas the values in patients with oedematous acute pancreatitis decreased . |
| 8 | In the upheaval that was to come during the next 12 months , only the ECSC seemed to have avoided the scrapheap . |
| 9 | The implication was that when it came to embroidery , the stitching up had been done on Merseyside , if Barnes had been fit enough to train for the last two days . |
| 10 | Philip of France had sent a force of Brabançons to help his brother-in-law , the opening shot in a campaign which he was to wage for the next thirty years . |
| 11 | General Council 's action in support of the miners and wool textile workers signaled a turn in the tide , the beginning of a definite stand against the policy of wage reductions which economic conditions have enabled the employers to impose in the last four and a half years . |
| 12 | These trends are likely to persist within the next five years , and necessitate a continuous review of the IT market-place , and mechanisms to ensure that Garden staff are using the most cost-effective IT in pursuit of Garden priorities . |
| 13 | Alec Monk , formerly international advertising controller at Nestlé , refused to approve any commercial in which the brand name failed to appear in the first seven or eight seconds , and in which it was not repeated several times . |
| 14 | Indeed it is a feature of this scene that the tension is kept up to the very last pizzicato , and of course it is no accident that Britten , when he made the concert version of the fourth interlude , had to jump to the last two pages of the act to get his conclusion . |
| 15 | The pace of investment is planned to increase over the next five years with over £50 million of expenditure planned in new and improved port facilities and associated infrastructure . |
| 16 | Though the number of people over the age of 65 is predicted not to increase over the next 10 years and to rise slowly thereafter , the profile of this group will change considerably . |
| 17 | But if progress in the past couple of decades has appeared hectic , there is plenty to come over the next two . |
| 18 | After five sentences , stop and pause , take a deep breath , look out of the window , then come back to work on the next five sentences . |
| 19 | The new committee to serve for the next two years was elected and is Chairman — Reg Simmons , Vice-Chairman — Ian Johnson , Secretary — Sheila Hamson , and Treasurer — Phil Johnson . |
| 20 | But er , we were not successful in putting up an er and er to have a member of Wales elected on this occasion to serve for the next seven years unfortunately ! |
| 21 | When it reappeared in December , Index had taken over the printing — and Gutenberg 's technology was to rule for the next 12 years . |
| 22 | Fortunately , in-foal mares usually ‘ do ’ well and will not cost more to feed until the last three months . |
| 23 | Visix is currently recruiting for a UK subsidiary it plans to open in the next two months . |
| 24 | It is sufficient for our purposes to elaborate upon the first two categories . |
| 25 | With the humidity likely to lessen over the next 24 hours , Bristol 's all-sand circuit should be in perfect nick for front-running Lady Riptide . |
| 26 | At Rackhams in Birmingham , sales have already beaten last year 's figures after the store decided to open on the last four Sundays before Christmas . |
| 27 | The gunners had been ordered to aim at the first two vessels , and at a bare two hundred yards ' range they could scarcely miss . |
| 28 | This level of trade was to continue throughout the next fifteen years with the exception of 1927 the year of the general strike when only 2.7 million tons was handled . |
| 29 | Require content to be modified , revised or re-written : in which case the centre will be advised within 4 weeks and will be required to resubmit within the next four weeks . |
| 30 | It is the response of the supermarket business as a whole to the demand for a healthier and more natural product , freshly produced to a high standard , which has led to the advent of the in-store bakery , and in turn created the need , at any rate within Sainsbury 's , for structured , high quality management training , geared much more towards how we plan the business to grow over the next five to ten years than it is to simply manning the pumps . |