Example sentences of "what [verb] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | So what happens in the last three years ? |
| 2 | ‘ We will see what happens in the next 24 hours . |
| 3 | ‘ What happens in the next few days is critical to our success . |
| 4 | What was I doing , in the late twentieth century , arguing that what happened in the first century was of relevance to whether or not I could be a deacon . |
| 5 | Science can try to understand what happened in the first half billionth of a second of the life of the universe . |
| 6 | Like the disappearance of Mallory and Irvine over 50 years before , what happened in the next few hours or days has remained one of the mountain 's unfathomable secrets . |
| 7 | What happened in the next 15 minutes is hard to describe , but it was mind-blowing . |
| 8 | Er , obviously on a more serious note , er it was very disappointing that we had such a severe er downturn in profitability last year after several years of steadily rising profits , and so what I want to do this morning was tell you a little bit about what happened in the last part of the year , since we met at the time of the interim results presentation last September , tell you the actions that have been taken and give you a little bit of insight as to where we stand at the present time . |
| 9 | Having formed the first phrase and its complement as the first sentence of our theme , we must turn to the problem of what to do in the second sentence . |