Example sentences of "remain [adj] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As regards the cost implications of these shifts , although the over-85s are heavier users of costly services than younger age groups , the heaviest financial cost of the elderly arises from pensions not from services and , to repeat , the total pensionable age group will remain stable for the next two decades . |
| 2 | If there is a tail of two or more syllables , the normal pitch movement is for the pitch to fall on the tonic syllable and to remain low until the last stressed syllable in the tail . |
| 3 | If invoices remain unchecked after the 14th of the month they will be excluded from the monthly close down of the cost accounts , treated as late invoices and costed to the following month . |
| 4 | Protected by the castle , a settlement grew up , apparently outside the bailey walls on the lower ground , with the modern market area seemingly remaining clear until the 16th century . |
| 5 | But the trouble with climate modification of the sort imposed by the greenhouse effect is that it does not move naturally to a new , warmer status quo which will remain undisturbed for the next thousand years or so . |
| 6 | The town 's housing market has remained stagnant over the last year and an Abbey National survey showed property prices did not significantly alter during 1991 . |
| 7 | With infinite delicacy forget-me-nots and rosebuds , croci and oak leaves are chiselled out of native lime ( grown in the grounds of the palace itself ) and slotted into ancient floral compositions which , but for a discarded cigarette in the grace and favour flats above , could perhaps have remained undisturbed for the next 300 years . |
| 8 | He had been boxing in South Africa for three years and , according to boxing historian Gilbert Odd , had remained unbeaten for the first two years ( 1978 , pp.18–19 ) . |
| 9 | IT IS pleasing that there has been a stay of execution on the proposed closure of the Redmire branch line and that it will remain open for the next six months . |
| 10 | In the same month it was announced that the abandonment of the trams would take place over two years , in stages , by groups of routes working from West to East , so that Charlton Works and the nearby tram graveyard at Penhall Road could remain open until the last stage . |
| 11 | I 'd shop you in a second , but you 'd remain loyal to the last . |
| 12 | The reconstruction of all the objects could not be completed ( this was later achieved by Bernard Rice and Ahmed Youssef Moustafa ) because of Stewart 's appointment as supervisor of technical education in Palestine in 1930 , but his name remains connected with the first attempt in Egyptian archaeology to restore objects which the loss of wood reduced to a mass of precious metal and faience components . |
| 13 | Economic barriers to book publishing remains constant throughout the Third World . |
| 14 | Economic barriers to book publishing remains constant throughout the Third World . |
| 15 | This remains true in the next decisive technical stage , that of graphic reproduction . |
| 16 | The loser should remain liable for the first instance costs , which would have been incurred in any event . |
| 17 | In the ditches and rice-fields these grow submerged and emersed forms , and once the water has dried out , they convert to the land form and remain dormant until the next rainy season . |
| 18 | The structure of the British court system , combined with the lack of effective policing , ensured that compromise and restitution remained possible during the nineteenth century for all but the most serious crimes . |
| 19 | Many of the institutions and practices established at this time remained intact until the twentieth century . |
| 20 | Mirabilis jalapa was very highly prized and remained popular until the eighteenth century . |
| 21 | The BBC was no better ; its ‘ Byzantine mentality ’ created an approach which ‘ remained synonymous with the nineteenth century parliamentary constitution ’ . |
| 22 | The white-and-red type remained unchanged for the next two centuries and it has elements of common origin with the Ayrshire of Scotland ( which is basically white with brown markings , especially on the neck and face ) . |
| 23 | Bureau trading volumes and sales of additional modules in both Europe and the US remained healthy in the first quarter , he said , while prospects for new licence sales are good . |
| 24 | Michael Codron remained optimistic during the first rewrites . |
| 25 | Pyramid said its cash flow remained positive in the fourth quarter . |
| 26 | Thompson is concerned to place plebeian recreations into a popular mentalité which remained active through the eighteenth century . |
| 27 | She remained feverish over the next 14 hours with cold peripheries and an arterial blood pressure of 90/50 mm Hg . |