Example sentences of "is [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The survival curve for the study shows that the highest mortality is during the first four years after diagnosis . |
| 2 | It is during the first few months in particular that these sorts of activities can affect the developing foetus , producing babies that may be premature , and with a low birth weight . |
| 3 | The critical time for an adverse effect on language development is during the first three years of life ( Sak and Ruben 1981 ; Zinkus et al . |
| 4 | The physical act of training breaks down part of the muscle exercised , and it is during the next 24–72 hours that the muscles recover and begin to grow . |
| 5 | At each anniversary National Savings will write and say what the guaranteed rate is for the next 12 months . |
| 6 | It is after the first few years in employment that the profiles diverge dramatically and again the male/female contrast is vivid . |
| 7 | ‘ My office is in the first sleeping car aft of the central dining car . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ He is in the first penitentiary cell , close to the passage to the infirmary , ’ said Cadfael . |
| 9 | The new Home Secretary will determine what is in the next Criminal Justice Bill . |
| 10 | It is in the last hundred years or so that theories have been advanced to justify critical or art historical practice , the creation of such theories being made more urgent in the last fifty years by a struggle to establish and then uphold the status of art history as an academic discipline . |
| 11 | He has just received a hefty testimonial pay-out and is in the last 18 months of his current contract . |
| 12 | For instance I have given one which is in the last ten years we have nearly one and half million more people in work than we had ten years ago . |
| 13 | What is common to all of them and to others , as it is to the first two sorts of " if " statements , is that none states the kind of connection of one thing with another which is expressed by any dependent conditional . |
| 14 | The most common position for this is on the last lexical word ( e.g. noun , adjective , verb , adverb as distinct from the function words introduced in Chapter 12 , p. 102 ) of the tone-unit . |
| 15 | BP is among the first major companies to adopt the standard which requires asset disposals and fundamental restructuring costs to be stripped from other components of the profit and loss account , implementing the new procedure for last year 's results ahead of the June 1993 deadline set for compliance . |