Example sentences of "it for the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that 's it for the first six thirty show of this week . |
| 2 | If a child has it for the first ten years hardly anything else matters . |
| 3 | They scarcely left it for the next two weeks , their passion putting her dreams to shame . |
| 4 | There Rowicki created the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra , building it from scratch and directing it for the next five years . |
| 5 | Teesdale District Council turned down an application for the sign on the ground of it contravening the town area local plan but the inspector said it was acceptable and allowed it for the next five years . |
| 6 | She was to keep it for the next three and a half years . |
| 7 | Well , can I propose we try it for the next three meetings , and |
| 8 | I thought about it for the prescribed two days , chanting , ‘ How do I get her to sign the form ? — How do I get her to sign the form ? ’ , then switched on the wireless in the middle of a biblical play about Moses and God 's voice boomed out of the speakers : |
| 9 | I 've managed it for the last four years , have n't I ? ’ |
| 10 | At the beginning of this erm programme he admitted that we had an excellent education service in Oxfordshire , and he 's now , having taken no part in managing it for the last five years , he is now claiming that in fact it 's due to what happened before . |
| 11 | I do n't know exactly how long , but I 've been aware of it for the last eighteen months . |
| 12 | The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 . |
| 13 | If , however , he believes in the right to a free and independent trade union , let him grant that right to the employees at the Government communications headquarters , who have been denied it for the past eight years . |
| 14 | Guido 's won it for the past two years and he 's absolutely desperate to get a hat trick — though some of his rivals are equally desperate to see that he does n't . ’ |
| 15 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 16 | But we have n't done it for the past eighteen months . |
| 17 | I have read it now from cover to cover — every word of it for the past seven years — since I first got hooked on running . |
| 18 | Neither , we are told , had had it for the past 40 years . |
| 19 | Waxing , a more traditional English technique employed by those unable or unwilling to undertake french polishing , ousted the latter by the 1920s , having run alongside it for the previous forty years . |