Example sentences of "that [prep] [num] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This meant that for six weeks he was on a special bed that could be turned so that he spent some hours on his back and some on his front , never getting off the bed at all . |
| 2 | I started it basically on my own initiative and I said that for six months I would use it on people that I was going to sentence just to maintain a one judge control over the project and see how it was going . |
| 3 | ‘ After the tent blew down we renegotiated the situation so that for 11 performances they would receive the same fee . |
| 4 | He also became President of the Royal Society , so that for 5 years he led its activities in nurturing British science and ripening its fruits . |
| 5 | As my vouchers are used up in about four months each year this means that for eight months I 'm out of pocket using our stores for the weekly shop . |
| 6 | The driver wound down his window and cursed him , adding that for two pins he 'd tell the police . |
| 7 | The procedure is often of great value , but it 's suggested that for two reasons it should only be used in urgent cases — both out of consideration for Land Registry staff , and to avoid the possibility of their being swamped by too many such applications , resulting in delay , which would defeat the whole purpose of the operation . |
| 8 | At the outset , a ‘ capital repayment holiday ’ of up to two years can be arranged — this means that for two years you only repay interest , reducing pressure on your cashflow . |
| 9 | However , readers can take some comfort from the fact that for 18 months we have produced every word of a 16 page newsletter on a PC in WordPerfect , yet done all the page makeup on a Macintosh . |
| 10 | But for me , all the time , it is a reminder that for 49 years it replaced wedding anniversary celebrations , and the memory of all those bonfires on the way to Bournemouth on a drizzly November afternoon , all those years ago . |
| 11 | The following month , after an appeal by Iranian opposition leader Rajavi , Iraq announced that for seven days it would halt attacks on towns . |
| 12 | Boase explained that for twenty years he had made a collection of notes relating to English persons deceased since 1850 , and that in compiling his work he had kept in mind the dictum of James Anthony Froude [ q.v. ] , ‘ we want the biographies of common people ’ , so that many hundreds of the thousands of entries included in his compilation related to persons who had not been eminent but had led interesting lives , accounts of which could not be found in any other book . |
| 13 | It looks rather splendid , but it attracted so much attention that after two days she took it all out . |
| 14 | So , I suppose one of them , right , we can make mature , so if you 'd like to put your handset by the side of your phone , do n't put it down , we 'll let that one mature and prove that after 75 seconds we ca n't lose them , and with the other one , can we just prove that we can go back to the conversation any time we like . |
| 15 | Mr Smith added : ‘ There was no enthusiasm for this Government , no admiration for their performance , no sense that after 13 years they had delivered the goods , fulfilled promises or proved themselves worthy of the trust of the nation . ’ |
| 16 | Labour 's simple , single theme is that after 13 years it is time for a change . |
| 17 | ‘ I get so fed up on a train that after five minutes I 'm howling with boredom . |
| 18 | ‘ Did n't you realise that after five years it is n't possible to claim on someone 's estate ? ’ |
| 19 | Patrick knew enough about improvised timing devices to be sure that after fifty-five seconds it would complete an electric circuit and fire the mortar bomb . |
| 20 | But we we agree that after three weeks we should be should have completed it . |
| 21 | Is not it a sad reflection on the Government that after 12 years they have failed to provide the necessary skills training for our work force to make our industries competitive in world markets ? |
| 22 | The KNU president Gen. Bo Mya , in a letter to Saw Maung dated Nov. 30 , 1989 , said that after 40 years it had been " proven beyond doubt that the civil war , which is basically a political problem , can not be settled by military means " , and that " the most correct and suitable means of achieving [ the KNU 's ] political goals is the settlement of the civil war politically , in a just and rational manner " . |
| 23 | To add to their guilt at this lack of self-control , some books say that from 36 weeks , pregnant women are n't likely to gain any more weight and that from 38 weeks they may even lose some ! |
| 24 | He said : ‘ I can sing so quietly that from two metres you will not hear me ! ’ |
| 25 | All in all , it was still impossible to predict that , within six years of the 1911 national transport stoppage , Wilson 's vision of a joint union-Shipping Federation board would be imposed on the industry and that within nine years it would have been accepted voluntarily by the Federation as the normal and accepted method of conducting business with Wilson and his colleagues . |
| 26 | Foster 's reckons that within five years it will brew as much beer in China as in Australia . |
| 27 | One fundholder said that within five years he expected to see practices controlling every aspect of health care . |
| 28 | The governments of the two contracting parties recommend to the legislative bodies of the united Germany that within two years they should deal with the questions regarding amendments or additions to the Basic Law as raised in connection with German unification … |
| 29 | Its mission — and it thinks that within two years it will achieve it — is 10% . |
| 30 | It never occurred to me that within three years I should hate the Italians with an unrelenting hatred . |