Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [prep] 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 | Let us concentrate rather on the last sentence of the paragraph quoted and work our way back through the foregoing non sequiturs . |
| 3 | They were watching the camp pack away for the last time before it moved on without them . |
| 4 | His side were not particularly inept on Saturday they were beaten by a side who would probably survive comfortably in the Second Division . |
| 5 | But the ratio would then fall sharply in the second and third decades of the twenty-first century . |
| 6 | So er that has to just wait now until the next meeting . |
| 7 | ‘ The funds are currently being invested in our bogus companies ; their value will fall dramatically over the next six months . ’ |
| 8 | A two-run defeat seemed set fair to demoralize England , but their batsmen did not do badly in the second game at Sydney . |
| 9 | To her mistress it was understandable that she should never speak absolutely freely but it was intolerable that she could not do so to the last remaining member of her family , nor even to her husband . |
| 10 | I shall do so for the last time . |
| 11 | My hon. Friend always speaks out powerfully for Basildon : he has done so for the past eight years , and I have no doubt that he will do so for the next eight . |
| 12 | It is not that she believes this evolving female corporate future has yet been reflected by numbers of women employed at senior levels but that it is inevitable it will do so during the next decade . |
| 13 | If God can make matter think in this world , and give us material ‘ souls ’ , he can do so in the next . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The guidance will bring together for the first time all the relevant existing guidance into one statement and has already been the subject of previous consultation in a green paper . |
| 16 | The makers of mains signalling equipment hope that business will grow rapidly in the next few years . |
| 17 | October plantings make small plants which do not crop well until the second year . |
| 18 | The generosity of people in the area so far gives them good cause to believe that they will succeed again over the next 12 months . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There seems to the writer little doubt that unemployment due to automation will grow steadily over the next few decades , perhaps centuries , and in the end it is likely to reach a very high figure , say ninety per cent of the labour force , unless radical changes are made in the present pattern of working . |
| 21 | The issue of theatrical performance is an important one , and one that will appear again in the next chapter . |
| 22 | One hole can often look much like the next , and a newly dug or outlying sett can be mistaken for a fox 's earth . |
| 23 | I ca n't remember much about the second Arse goal , scored by Merson ; maybe Sunil on the north bank can say what happened . |
| 24 | As a family , therefore , we have perfectly happily left what little savings we could scrape together over the last 20 years or so with the Woolwich Building Society , whose efficiency and ethics we have never had any reason to doubt . |
| 25 | Uniforum Asia ‘ 92 conference will run concurrently with the first Asia Pacific Networking , Open Systems & Workstations ( NOW ) exhibit August 25–27 at the Marina Mandarin Hotel in Singapore . |
| 26 | The next series will run concurrently with the first set , and will be held in Tees-side . |
| 27 | The problem is not to find an alternative to a system that once worked well but no longer does ; the problem is to make it work efficiently for the first time in its 3,000-year history . |
| 28 | I mean , I 've been analyzing every dream I can remember now for the last twenty one years and er I think I 've got rather good at dream interpretation I must admit . |
| 29 | But the OECD reckons it will rebound strongly in the second half , at an annual rate of 3.2% . |
| 30 | ( This would work well with the third of the examples above . ) |