Example sentences of "[num ord] [adj] [noun pl] and [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are synovial joints between the fifth to eighth costal cartilages and it is possible that in some of the patients in this series the pain was a result of inflammation in one of these joints . |
| 2 | Where the remedy has been too ‘ strong ’ for the patient 's vitality this has always shown itself on the first few doses and it has merely been necessary to wait a day or two for the over-reaction to settle and then to begin again using greater dilution . |
| 3 | She 'd lived without carpets for the first few weeks and it had been nearly a year before she 'd been able to ditch her old and undersized curtains . |
| 4 | so I 'm actually taking the first three weeks and you 're taking the last |
| 5 | Cos I had him , I just , I just had him like that first sixteen points and we could n't play properly cos no one won . |
| 6 | ‘ It would be a 10-year lease , index-linked to inflation for the first five years and I would have to do all the repairs the brewery had n't done . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We had a bad time for the first 250 metres and they did n't know where we were but our cox Garry Herbert was brilliant . |
| 8 | We played with Gary player for the first two rounds and he was as miserable as sin about our luck with the weather because we caught it again for the second round . |
| 9 | well mines the first two weeks and I 'm keeping them off those two days that they 're supposed to be at school |
| 10 | The advertising agency as we know it has emerged only in the last fifty years and it will continue to evolve as communication technology changes and mass communication becomes even more sophisticated . |
| 11 | ASK ANY thoughtful person for a list of the problems likely to confront Britain in the next few decades and he or she will have no trouble answering . |
| 12 | Mr Clark said legislation ensuring re-inspection could come into force within the next few years and he warned that it could result in hotels being prosecuted if they contravened their Fire Certificates . |
| 13 | ‘ There are exciting days ahead as the two-year-old classic races loom in the next few months and we could have something hot for next season . ’ |
| 14 | He spawned with two females in the next few days and they produced 82 and 64 fry . |
| 15 | She 'll be busy with photographers and fittings for the next few days and I 'll join her after the show . ’ |
| 16 | I have been reading the last few pages and I think they are true and beautiful and just , recompense enough for the cold gloom of this untidy and lonely room . |
| 17 | ‘ The industry has cleaned up its act in the last few years and we import from restricted countries , ’ said the timber merchant . |
| 18 | Maureen has n't worked for the last few years and she 's ill herself , she 's got hepatitis B. |
| 19 | THERE 'S been a revolution in media over the last few years and it 's going to continue at an ever-increasing pace for sometime to come . |
| 20 | we have extremely good erm figure on a reduction in accident over the last few years and I 'd like to erm , I 'd like Councillor to erm to prevail our thanks to the road safety officers |
| 21 | They have obviously been through a very bad time over the last few days and it is n't going to get any better over the next few weeks . ’ |
| 22 | I feel like Judas , but there 's a way out ; not with any honour , perhaps , but I 've looked at myself pretty closely over the last few days and I 've had to admit to myself that I 'm not quite as wonderful a guy as I liked to think I was . |
| 23 | In fact events have developed rapidly in the last few weeks and it was announced at a Committee meeting on Monday 1st June that we had every hope of opening the museum by the end of the month . |
| 24 | ‘ The man 's problems have intensified in the last few weeks and it 's reached the stage where he 's late at least three mornings a week now . ’ |
| 25 | She 's obviously been under a tremendous strain over the last few months and she needs my help . ’ |
| 26 | His voice had changed during the last few words and she pushed him hard against the end of the settle as she said , ‘ No , they wo n't come running , but have you ever thought of you doin' the askin' ? |
| 27 | Obviously the standards are not satisfactory but they are the same as they have been for the last 30 years and they are of Mr Pritchard 's choosing . |
| 28 | That 's what has happened in world football for the last 10 years and we 've just started doing it . |
| 29 | ‘ I hope to meet with the CAA in the next 10 days and we might be able to tie everything up within a few weeks , ’ he said . |
| 30 | ‘ We have not been massacred in any game over the last six years and it wo n't start on Wednesday , ’ he said . |