Example sentences of "[noun pl] for the following [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marine supervisor , Capt Kent Stevens , took command of the Emergency Control Centre and directed operations for the following seven hours . |
| 2 | The vital signs of the patients were checked every hour for the first 12 hours , every two hours for the second 12 hours , and every four hours for the following 24 hours until they became stable , and then four times daily . |
| 3 | Carmichael 's sexism — not that the word existed : ‘ the role of women in the struggle is prone ’ — and the obsession with struggle elsewhere and male intellectuals ' struggles here with an uncomprehending world , threw down enough issues to sustain a variety of competing tendencies , articles , and books for the following five years . |
| 4 | After troops had moved into Algiers in the early afternoon Chadli declared a state of siege , giving the military emergency powers for the following four months , including the power to ban strikes in services and to dissolve municipal councils and political parties . |
| 5 | On the fourth day , as the climax , the papingo was — and whoever was first to was called Captain of the archers for the following twelve months . |
| 6 | As in Irvine , whoever was first to the Kilwinning papingo was made Captain of the archers for the following twelve months . |
| 7 | On grant aid the Council will be able to give details of the budget for revenue grant aid for 1988/89 , and indicate the position as far as is known on the likely budgets for the following two years . |
| 8 | When the National Insurance Act was introduced in 1911 it also provided sickness benefits of 10s. per week for men , 7s. 6d. for women ( because their loss of earnings during sickness was lower than that of men ) for the first thirteen weeks of sickness , although nothing was paid for the first three days , the aim being to help long-rather than trivial short-term sickness ; 5s. per week was paid to men and women for the following thirteen weeks . |