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 | His side were not particularly inept on Saturday they were beaten by a side who would probably survive comfortably in the Second Division . |
| 3 | But the ratio would then fall sharply in the second and third decades of the twenty-first century . |
| 4 | A two-run defeat seemed set fair to demoralize England , but their batsmen did not do badly in the second game at Sydney . |
| 5 | If God can make matter think in this world , and give us material ‘ souls ’ , he can do so in the next . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The makers of mains signalling equipment hope that business will grow rapidly in the next few years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The issue of theatrical performance is an important one , and one that will appear again in the next chapter . |
| 10 | But the OECD reckons it will rebound strongly in the second half , at an annual rate of 3.2% . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Remarkably , Cambridge let the initiative dribble away in the third quarter despite spending most of that period camped in the Oxford half . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The report notes that if present trends continue , more than 100 million children will die needlessly in the next 10 years . |
| 15 | Can students try again in the sixth form if they fail to achieve Compact goals during the fourth and fifth years ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ If you believe that , why did you stay here in the first place ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The broadcasting environment will change dramatically in the next few years as new channels and broadcasters emerge in the commercial sector . |
| 19 | ‘ The broadcasting environment will change dramatically in the next few years as new channels and broadcasters emerge in the commercial sector . |
| 20 | ANOTHER 400,000 jobs will go nationwide in the next 15 months , NatWest 's chief economist David Kern predicted yesterday . |
| 21 | The Earth 's climate could change significantly in the next century |
| 22 | No doubt one could find some of that ilk in the Labour party , but I am sorry to tell Ministers , who greatly outnumber their indians seated behind them , that defence will not figure prominently in the next general election . |
| 23 | Well he , he did n't play well in the second half though did he ? |
| 24 | ‘ A ’ used tae , but a' never expected tae come here in the first place so a' gave up wonderin' what comes next . ’ |
| 25 | Oxford Union treasurer Toby Lewis said : ‘ Mr Clinton has got very fond memories of Oxford and we are very optimistic he will come here in the first two years of office . |
| 26 | The firm which supplied the scaffold blames the boy 's parents for letting him play there in the first place . |
| 27 | I was a little disappointed it had not been there , but I was quite sure he would write again in the next few days . |
| 28 | The number of two-car families doubled in the Fifties to reach fifteen per cent of American households ( and would double again in the next ten years ) . |
| 29 | Its population has doubled in the past ten years and will double again in the next ten ; its growth is due as much to the constant influx of newcomers from the Nile villages as to Egypt 's birth-rate . |
| 30 | I think christmas should start everywhere in the first week |