Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the [num ord] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is believed that the National Gallery has committed its entire purchase grant for the next three years towards the cost of the Holbein and , given the fact that purchase grants for national museums have been frozen since 1985 , other museums are similarly powerless both to acquire when the works come onto the market , and to match their export price when their licences are suspended . |
| 2 | The suckling pup may also be infected by ingestion of L3 in the milk during the first three weeks of lactation . |
| 3 | Subject to that undertaking , I am pleased to announce today that I have increased the funding planned by the corporation by £22 million , bringing provision for the next three years to £130 million . |
| 4 | I was so tired with the journey and the entertainment that I could only walk and speak with difficulty for the next three days . |
| 5 | In recognition of the importance of our work , I am pleased to report that our Central Government grant was increased last year to £140,00 with guaranteed funding for the next three years . |
| 6 | In his travels , Arkle will be staffing the Scripture Union stand for the first three weeks of Spring Harvest at Minehead , where he hopes to spend some time with Frank Shayi , SU South Africa 's Fieldwork Director . |
| 7 | More generally , the link between the last three sections of this book is Tolkien 's perception , from Pearl and from poems like it , that poetry does not reduce to plain sense ( so far most critics would agree with him ) , but furthermore that this is because words have over the centuries acquired meanings not easily traced in dictionaries , available however to many native speakers , and ( this is where many critics part company ) at times breaking through the immediate intentions of even poetic users . |
| 8 | Pointing , at best , some sixty degrees off the wind , and drifting downwind at an alarming rate , we made little or no progress during the next three days . |
| 9 | It was maintained with local support for the next three years , then in 1975 it acquired a three-year grant from the Council on Learning Resources ( CLR ) . |
| 10 | Later in the year proposals for specific research projects and the Centre 's overall programme for the first three years will be drawn up . |
| 11 | Although the first two rounds of this year 's Davis Cup , one week after the Australian Open and then a week after Lipton , made it possible for him to fit them into his tournament programme for the first three months of the year when his number one ranking was under such threat , he says , ‘ The Davis Cup is certainly one of my priorities now . ’ |
| 12 | You 've got a captive audience there why the hell do n't you do it a sheet why do n't you give them a programme for the next three months exactly what is happening . |
| 13 | Biological and Molecular Sciences was one of a relatively small number of University Departments in the UK to be awarded ‘ Q ’ status by NERC for Research Studentships , an award that essentially ensures a steady input of NERC-funded PhD students into the Department for the next three years . |
| 14 | Erm but one of the things that we , that we will need to do is actually to review the overtime for the last three months to say okay , what 's it actually been spent on so that we can start to er make sure we 've identified the reasons for it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Guinness Flight , which has about £80m in its International Accumulation Fund , said the amount of investment in its funds has increased by 43 p.c. during the first three months . |
| 17 | My club control a water I have been carp fishing for the last three seasons and have just imposed a hair rig ban . |
| 18 | Jocelyn Stevens says that he needs £156 million to carry out properly English Heritage 's traditional role , while its grant in aid for the next three years is £100 million , £104 million and £106 million . |
| 19 | The Shah asked for £75 million a year in , military aid for the next three years , but Dulles thought this was excessive . |
| 20 | The company launched a a direct VAX-to-Alpha binary translator last November and has been shipping an R-series-to-Alpha translator for the last three months . |
| 21 | The company launched a direct VAX-to-Alpha binary translator last November and has been shipping an R-series-to-Alpha translator for the last three months . |
| 22 | Recipient of the first three Perths was 209 Squadron at Mount Batten , which replaced its Irises with the new ‘ boats . |
| 23 | Any suggestion of Italianism is stamped out by the steady march of the voices : Incidentally , one of Kittel 's Arien is a setting of the last three strophes of Opitz 's ‘ Nachtklag ’ , the first six of which had been set by Schütz as a madrigal , ‘ Itzt blicken durch des Himmels Saal ’ for five voices , two violins , and continuo . |
| 24 | The Cowley based company Unipart appears to be going from strength to strength despite the gloom in the rest of the industry of the last three years . |
| 25 | Successful completion of the first three years carries exemption from Part 1 of the Examination in Architecture of the Royal Institute of British Architects , and students at this stage may graduate BSc(SocSci) , but most continue to MA ( Honours in Architecture ) , taken at the end of Fourth Year . |
| 26 | Confidence has risen markedly since the defeat at Elland Road ; the parts are falling neatly into place and some of their football in the last three games against Hull , Widnes and Featherstone has been exhilarating . |
| 27 | The UK Department of Trade & Industry on Monday licensed a new transatlantic telephone operator on Monday , and the company has now begun operating : Swiftcall Ltd is using lines that it leases from Mercury Communications Ltd with calls to be delivered in the US by Sprint Corp , and will charge between 25 pence and 28 pence a minute plus tax , with a sign-on fee of £1,000 for companies , £50 for residential subscribers , the fee to be set against call charges until it runs out ; Swiftcall founder Tom McCabe told the paper that even at 30% capacity , he could reach annual turnover of £10m and make a substantial profit ; he plans a £2m investment in the first three years and will run the service with a staff of four from the World Trade Centre , near the Tower of London . |
| 28 | Many primary age kids are recommended by their schools to take a break from the first three R's and take up another one — relaxing . |
| 29 | This process was to gain momentum in the last three decades of the nineteenth century , reaching a peak in the years before the First World War . |
| 30 | More than 1,300 people have died in separatist fighting in the last three years for independence for Turkey 's estimated nine million Kurds . |