Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless the data given in Table 7.2 are the most widely quoted , and illustrate that the area already affected is immense and that average rates of deforestation in these regions are sufficiently high that there is a real danger that forests will disappear altogether in the next 200 years , especially as reforestation is replacing only c. 10 per cent of the cleared forest ( Lanly 1982 ) . |
| 2 | Wind/U , a complete set of Windows APIs operating under Motif that Bristol wrote , is currently in beta and will ship in in the fourth quarter priced at $50,000 per product license . |
| 3 | His side were not particularly inept on Saturday they were beaten by a side who would probably survive comfortably in the Second Division . |
| 4 | So many people give up because , after the elation of seeing the pounds fall off in the first few days , they lose heart when weight loss slows down . |
| 5 | But the ratio would then fall sharply in the second and third decades of the twenty-first century . |
| 6 | A two-run defeat seemed set fair to demoralize England , but their batsmen did not do badly in the second game at Sydney . |
| 7 | If God can make matter think in this world , and give us material ‘ souls ’ , he can do so in the next . |
| 8 | Since only adults set up households , all those who will do so in the next 15 years are alive now , and we can estimate accurately how many will actually be alive in each age group — except perhaps for the oldest age groups — for at least that period ahead . |
| 9 | At half-time a note was passed to the Scottish dressing-room telling the young striker that he would be shot if he did not ease off in the second half . |
| 10 | The makers of mains signalling equipment hope that business will grow rapidly in the next few years . |
| 11 | Now fitted with the superior 2.9-litre engine , the latest cars will depreciate heavily in the first year — 48 per cent falls are the norm . |
| 12 | The issue of theatrical performance is an important one , and one that will appear again in the next chapter . |
| 13 | ( The problem of recognizing C as the same object when viewed from different directions is a much harder one , which I will touch on in the next chapter ) . |
| 14 | ( A couple of drunks do eventually square up in the third base bleachers , but by Stamford Bridge standards it is almost a mating ritual ) . |
| 15 | But the OECD reckons it will rebound strongly in the second half , at an annual rate of 3.2% . |
| 16 | Something with four solid walls the wo n't blow down in the first puff of wolf 's breath . |
| 17 | But its overall role as a credible world community of faith and love , a body that can be ignored by no one , a living tradition that combines humanity and the most sophisticated rational understanding with divinity and mystical insight , will simply dwindle away in the twenty-first century , leaving the Church as a narrowing fellowship upon the margins of history . |
| 18 | But young couples are often surprised , even shocked , by the ferocity of the rows that can suddenly blow up in the first year or two of marriage . |
| 19 | ‘ How did you meet up in the first place ? |
| 20 | He made Hodkinson step back in the second with a fierce right to the body . |
| 21 | Remarkably , Cambridge let the initiative dribble away in the third quarter despite spending most of that period camped in the Oxford half . |
| 22 | So you 've had a sharp increase in our shareholders ' funds during the six months and a reduction in our net debt which may not be quite as er substantial as you expected but it is the combination of on the one hand the proceeds of Elsivir less some reinvestment which Frank mentioned , we put a little more money in B S B and the minority interests and we do have traditionally in the first half an adverse net movement of funds from operation about ninety five million and then we had thirty two million odd er of simply revaluation as a result of translating our dollar debt at er the one sixty as opposed to the year ending rate . |
| 23 | The report notes that if present trends continue , more than 100 million children will die needlessly in the next 10 years . |
| 24 | Can students try again in the sixth form if they fail to achieve Compact goals during the fourth and fifth years ? |
| 25 | To make sure that he does n't fade again in the second part of the season , Zeelenberg 's pre-season training regime has been a lot tougher . |
| 26 | ‘ If you believe that , why did you stay here in the first place ? ’ |
| 27 | Once we have incorporated the Maastricht treaty into our law — presumably , as my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister said , in the first Session of the new Parliament — we must press on in the second half of 1992 , when we have the presidency of the Community , to set out more clearly our vision of a common European future . |
| 28 | Why does go down in the first place ? |
| 29 | I should never have let her go off in the first place . ’ |
| 30 | The inspector was pleased to receive that , noting the fact that we had a , a drop in our work output but expected that , that would go up in the next year or two . |