Example sentences of "their [noun] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mid-year , they present the strategic thinking for the next edition of their rolling five-year plan , and in November they present the five-year plan itself and their budget for the next year . |
| 2 | After the punchline had been delivered and the ensuing laughter had died away , the blonde swayed away from the bar and looked in their direction for the first time . |
| 3 | Here , within three minutes , Mark Bailey had rounded their defence for the first of his side 's dozen tries . |
| 4 | At 4.00 p.m. on Saturday 11 June the drivers engaged in their traditional sprint start to their cars for the 23rd Le Mans , scheduled to cover more than 4000 mkm ( 2500 miles ) . |
| 5 | In every production there comes an awkward jerky stage when the cast abandon their books for the first time , but for The Hooded Owl it seemed to be going on longer than usual . |
| 6 | Some approached the Santuario on their knees for the last part of the journey , saying the Rosary and imploring the Madonna 's help . |
| 7 | She 's been visiting the Compton family who have been without their car for the last two months . |
| 8 | The Gulamalis received their rent for the first three months , then nothing for four months , and were told the computer was broken , the accounts were being moved , the cheque was in the post , and so on . |
| 9 | The only thing these artists have in common is their gallery of origin the Bachelier-Cardonsky of Kent , Connecticut , USA which has sent their work for the first time ever to Paris where it can be seen at Gianna Sistu for a month . |
| 10 | The motley band stared in awe at the figure who would be in charge of their lives for the next three months . |
| 11 | In the current market , availability of funds presents no problem for house purchase ; many fixed rate mortgages are on offer from a wide range of lending institutions enabling prospective purchasers to stabilise their out-goings for the next one to two years . |
| 12 | The welcome 's over … the introductions have been made … today it 's been down to work for Oxford United 's new manager Denis Smith and his assistant Malcolm Crosby … their plan for the first game |
| 13 | ‘ They 've been encouraging local authorities to tighten their belts for the last 14 years , ’ he protests . |
| 14 | Gramsci 's Prison Notebooks represent not only a stirring monument to the human spirit under adversity , but a significant turning-point in the history of Marxist ideas and their relevance for the twentieth century . |
| 15 | ARSENAL 'S rent-a-crowd will assist the team in their battle for the first Premier League title . |
| 16 | The Chinese foreign ministry said yesterday that a resumption of Sino-British dialogue depended on Mr Patten abandoning the proposals , which would allow Hong Kong people to elect a majority of their legislature for the first time in 1995. — Reuter |
| 17 | For many , the thought of leaving their parents for the first time left them subdued . |
| 18 | In fact , there is no further mention of the chapel in the Minute Books of their Meetings for nearly three centuries , and much later they were to claim that they did not know about it until it was brought to their attention for the first time in 1846 . |
| 19 | THE mothers at the centre of the hospital baby swop case talked of their anguish for the first time last night . |
| 20 | But just three days before the England selectors name their team for the second Test against Australia at Lord 's , Fletcher was not too concerned about Gower 's injury-enforced absence . |
| 21 | To make the country even more civilized the railways were embarking on building great hotels by their stations for the first time . |
| 22 | The audience were in their seats for the first of the two evening performances . |
| 23 | The resources are allocated periodically at a review meeting which is preceded by individual project leaders assessing their own progress and estimating their needs for the next period . |
| 24 | In the Third World new nations were flexing their muscles for the first time . |
| 25 | Most people find it easy to drink large quantities of calorific drinks , sweet or alcoholic , without in any way lessening or delaying their appetite for the next meal — and these drinks , and sugar itself , are perhaps the ultimate example of fibre-free calories . |
| 26 | Because i it is assumed management is learned by picking up the bad habits of your predecessor and their predecessors for the last five hundred years . |
| 27 | The visiting party , including an HMI in attendance , was horrified , dropped their agenda for the second day and went through the problems as they had perceived them with the management group and the Academic Board : |
| 28 | ENGLAND 'S Colts emulated their seniors for the first time in three seasons at the Parc de Pugh in Brecon by toppling the Welsh Youth in no uncertain fashion . |
| 29 | After a heavily-publicised week on the slopes of Lech with their mother , the Princess of Wales , the princes are likely to join their father for the next part of their Easter holiday . |
| 30 | Whatever enforced their absence for the last couple of years , it was n't an extensive search for a new musical direction . |