Example sentences of "[to-vb] in the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RAIL fares are scheduled to soar in the next few years and at least 5,000 railway jobs will be lost following the Government 's decision to slash grants for British Rail in the early 1990s . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This particular novelty was the third short orchestral piece to appear in the last few years , written , like the second , at Knussen 's prompting , and it rounded off a performance of all three as a suite , titled Three Occasions for Orchestra . |
| 5 | Visix is currently recruiting for a UK subsidiary it plans to open in the next two months . |
| 6 | Voters lined up before dawn in Chad yesterday to participate in the first national election in 20 years in this war-torn former French colony . |
| 7 | I mean , now I 've got several hundred pounds resting on it if I have to walk in the last few miles I will , but er pride I 'm sure I 'll keep going . |
| 8 | They overpowered the Italian pair to win in the last few strokes |
| 9 | Goal-poacher John Aldridge registered their 400th international goal to settle any possible nerves after just 14 minutes , and McGrath ducked low to nod in the second three minutes before the break . |
| 10 | As one of the innumerable Government reports to emerge in the last 12 months confirms , the best part of one million people now earn their living , directly or indirectly , from sports and leisure orientated activities . |
| 11 | I hope the majority of regular readers of this column appreciate a broad spectrum of modern , popular music styles ; after last month 's metal mayhem , we now have Martin Rooms of Leicester to thank for requesting an article on the track One Of Us from the album ‘ The Visitors ’ by one of the purest pop acts to emerge in the last 20 years , ABBA . |
| 12 | As regards contracts of employment , it is provided that he is to be liable on any contract of employment adopted by him but nothing he does or omits to do in the first 14 days of his appointment is to be taken as adoption of the contract . |
| 13 | Its what we used to do in the 2nd div championship year , and even in the first division the first year up . |
| 14 | All out 446 meant that England had a lot of batting to do in the last two days , and when Larkins went at the end of the third day to a ball that he did not see in the shadows , one felt they just were not going to make it . |
| 15 | Because what you choose to do in the next few minutes could decide whether a child will live or die . |
| 16 | There was much to do in the next few days . |
| 17 | Blackburn managed to equalise in the last five minutes and won it 3–4 in extra time . |
| 18 | DEFENDER Terry Butcher swallowed up Luton 's attack — then confessed he could be forced to retire in the next few weeks . |
| 19 | He 's the second top player to go in the last few weeks . |
| 20 | The industry says that the figure should be almost 165,000 , and that more jobs are threatened to go in the next few months . |
| 21 | Now commuting is a consequence of human nature to a large extent , people choose to live away from their place of work and if they do choose to live away from their place of work then we 'll need a much more authoritarian government than we are likely to see in the next ten or twenty years to stop people from living away from their place of work . |
| 22 | The number of occasions when the Bank has had to intervene in the last 18 months to prop up sterling inside the ERM has been small . |
| 23 | Davis , who won the world title for the sixth time in May , decided not to compete in the first two ranking events in Hong Hong and Bangkok . |
| 24 | LIZ McCOLGAN has agreed a £500,000 deal to run in the next three NutraSweet London marathons . |
| 25 | Philips Electronics NV says it sold 100,000 CD-I players in 1992 , but expects the market to mushroom in the next two years , with a doubling this year , and a trebling of that in 1994 — 600,000 in other words . |
| 26 | Well , th , the definition of a terminal illness as regards that is , according to the underwriters , is that the client 's life is likely to die in the next twelve months . |
| 27 | Who scored Charlton 's first goal on their return to The Valley is a logical sequel to the original poser : Who was the first player to score in the first live televised game in England ? |
| 28 | Defenders Andy Hill and Ian Brightwell then ran from the back to score in the last 16 minutes . |
| 29 | The following year Calero looked like getting in the Ryder Cup side , but he had to finish in the first two at York ( Benson and Hedges International ) . |
| 30 | For a £1 ‘ Each Way ’ bet , you stake £2. £1 of this goes on the same horse to win and the other £1 goes on the same horse to finish in the first three or four places , depending on how many runners there are in the race . |