Example sentences of "[be] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | L and T have promised to keep to their obligations , the covenants , for the whole period of their lease — which may of course be for the next thousand years . |
| 2 | He needs to be for the next four days in Hong Kong , because he will be hard at work cutting ribbons and laying foundation stones . |
| 3 | You see , I suddenly felt that I could n't bear it , not knowing where they were going to be for the next three and a half weeks ( though in retrospect I doubt whether the location of the groom much perturbed me ) . |
| 4 | The winter isotherm for this might well be above the next critical temperature for water , i.e. 30°C . |
| 5 | Or if there are a lot of runners , that horse will be in the first four . |
| 6 | We may not be in the First Eleven , but we are a pretty strong team , Hazlitt , Charles Lamb , Beerbohm , Chesterton and Haverford Downs . |
| 7 | The other bet says that horse will be in the first three . |
| 8 | ‘ I shall raffle you , to see who will be in the first half dozen . ’ |
| 9 | The effect of Sun entering the market , which the other vendors anticipate will be in the next six to 12 months , could significantly stimulate it . |
| 10 | The sale will be in the next two months , provided regulatory approval is granted , and will be tied to market price ; Zenith shares are currently trading at $6.625 . |
| 11 | In deciding what prices to set , firms form expectations ( which , of course , we shall assume are rational ) of what the price level is likely to be in the next two periods . |
| 12 | Erm , that 's on the basis that eighty percent of your diary , forward scheduling will be in the next thirty days , eighty percent of your backtracking for information is going to be in the last thirty days . |
| 13 | Erm , that 's on the basis that eighty percent of your diary , forward scheduling will be in the next thirty days , eighty percent of your backtracking for information is going to be in the last thirty days . |
| 14 | ‘ It is very rewarding for the club , the fans and the players to be in the last eight of the top tournament in Europe . |
| 15 | He confessed : ‘ I want to be in the last tee-off time every week with Nick Faldo . |
| 16 | And the , the importance of that for me , that shows me the shape of the month , so there 's nowhere I 'm going to be on the tenth other than my office , because I 'm going to be out for the rest of the week . |
| 17 | Erm so two pounds of that went with sale with the sale of the journal and so we can say we had twelve pounds unsolicited donations , erm as Peggy would back me up if she was here , saying that any time you ask someone to sign the flood gates open with what they thought about the position of pensioners , in fact we 've probably got a lot more signatures if they had n't , but erm , we did pick up , we , I picked up the news about Welwyn Garden City 's cost of and things like that not going through and erm , erm , now , our month our monthly , our monthly stall will not be on the third third Thursday this year , it will be on the fourth to co-inside with the week were celebrating pensioner 's week , which is a week behind National . |
| 18 | It may not look it now , but I think it will be over the next five years . |
| 19 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , we are not in a position to predict what oil prices or , through oil prices , petrol prices will be over the next few years . |
| 20 | The council would not say what the ‘ procedure ’ for dealing with stores will be over the next three Sundays until the matter is discussed by the Environment and Public Health Committee , but it has already authorised legal action against large stores which continue to open . |
| 21 | If they are ever opened , the Hunterston plants would be among the first direct reduction iron works in the Western world . |
| 22 | The crew of that canoe were believed to be among the first human beings to set foot on the Islands . |
| 23 | Now what will be concerning the last hard core will be that amongst them can almost certainly the people who were involved in the original planning of the er uprising or riot , and also who probably er orchestrated the Kangaroo Courts . |