Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adj] for the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 As regards the cost implications of these shifts , although the over-85s are heavier users of costly services than younger age groups , the heaviest financial cost of the elderly arises from pensions not from services and , to repeat , the total pensionable age group will remain stable for the next two decades .
2 He had warned the Assistant Commissioner , McPhee , and together they would ensure that for the next two or three days the City was flooded with agents who would alert them at once to an assembly .
3 So if you could do that for the next meeting I 'd be grateful .
4 Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two .
5 If Punch dies , how do I keep sane for the next 40 years ! !
6 Demand is growing , so the sight of wild boar wallowing in the mud could become commonplace for the first time since the sixteenth century .
7 The rule is expected to come into force in 1988 when post-1939 buildings will become eligible for the first time .
8 But the trouble with climate modification of the sort imposed by the greenhouse effect is that it does not move naturally to a new , warmer status quo which will remain undisturbed for the next thousand years or so .
9 We 'll have that for the next meeting .
10 One January 20 , he promises the front door of the White House will swing open for the first time in nearly 30 years , as Bill , wife Hilary and 12-year-old daughter Chelsea pop down to McDonald 's and do a little shopping .
11 They believe it will mean that for the first time in El Salvador 's history , there will be genuine political freedom .
12 Does he also admit that for the first time in the history of the national health service , waiting lists for day patients and in-patients combined have risen above 900,000 people ?
13 Some of the technology the group is using such as speculative loads has never been used before and as a result the designers believe the specification will stand unmodified for the next twenty years with only a few extensions .
14 IT IS pleasing that there has been a stay of execution on the proposed closure of the Redmire branch line and that it will remain open for the next six months .
15 The offer of three months salary on top of normal voluntary redundancy packages will stay open for the next three months .
16 He also enjoyed staunch support from both Salisbury ( 12 ) , who stayed 82 minutes to help add 73 for the seventh wicket and Tufnell , who was 10 not out at the close and had become the fourth England player in the match to better his previous best Test score .
17 Well why do n't you get two for the first day , and then and then then they 're not
18 The loser should remain liable for the first instance costs , which would have been incurred in any event .
19 If we represent these facts in mathematical form we would say that for the first state ( let us denote it by
20 She was getting tired of the equipment — the leash and ring and creance — slowing her down , and I had to pluck up the courage to let her fly free for the first time .
21 At its foundation it employed only eight officials ; and this number did not increase much for the next half-century .
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