Example sentences of "[vb pp] a further [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | IBM UK Ltd expects to have shed a further 2,000 jobs by July after accelerating its cost-cutting programme , the Daily Telegraph reports . |
2 | IBM UK Ltd expects to have shed a further 2,000 jobs by July after accelerating its cost-cutting programme : it had planned to shed 1,200 this year , but to avoid further ‘ bit by bit ’ cutbacks the company decided to bring forward further redundancy programmes and two weeks ago , 1,400 staff left on a single day and the company will be down to 12,000 by mid-year . |
3 | By the Spring of 1992 the IHM expects to have added a further six helicopters to the collection , including a Kaman HH–43 Huskie and at least two Russian types , bringing the total fleet list to over sixty rotary winged aircraft . |
4 | Therefore in 1775 Watt petitioned Parliament and was granted a further 25 years for the patent , thus extending it until 1800 . |
5 | Since January 1991 I have committed myself to full time study of the language , history and culture etc and have made a further four visits . |
6 | Wimpy International has opened a further four restaurants at the Metro Centre , Gateshead ; Carbis Bay , Cornwall ; Shirley , Hampshire ; and Sudbury , Suffolk . |
7 | On March 5 , 1991 , he was given a further 27 years for the murder in January 1979 of Gen. Constantino Ortín Gil , a former military governor of Madrid [ see p. 29454 ] . |
8 | Existing gainers of the subsidy would presumably be given a further five years ' grace , and new recruits would similarly benefit . |
9 | If this fails to achieve the desired results , then they would be given a further 15 years to replace lead service lines . |
10 | Dakers , who was born in Newcastle but now lives in Sydney , where he has taken out Australian citizenship , was given a further three months to run concurrently after admitting the three handling charges . |
11 | The barometer had fallen a further ten points to 28.5 . |
12 | The report endorsed the existing practice whereby the King appointed a further 10 members to each house . |
13 | The UN Environment Programme has announced a further 74 winners of its " Global 500 " award , made annually since World Environment Day in 1987 . |
14 | Whiting said the wreckage stopped from that speed in 20 metres and Donnelly was thrown a further 20 metres down the track . |
15 | This has yielded a further two contracts . |
16 | Associates of the Institute must have served in a solicitor 's office for three years and have passed four examination papers in law and Fellows must be over 25 , have served eight years in a solicitor 's office and have passed a further three examinations from a list of subjects offered by the Institute . |
17 | Contact tracing identified a further three patients requiring either treatment or chemoprophylaxis . |
18 | Montenegro 's complement of seats in the FRY Assembly was filled when the Montenegrin Assembly on July 2 elected a further five deputies to the Chamber of Republics . |
19 | When I dared to go to the scales I discovered that I had lost a further ten pounds in five days . |
20 | And then I poured some water on it , and it 's lasted a further two weeks . |