Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [num ord] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bullins , porter at Magdalen College for forty years , and senior porter for the last ten , put on his bowler hat and the bland expression he always assumed on such occasions , and walked to staircase III in New Buildings , overlooking the Deer Park , where E. A. J. de Chavigny had some of the most desirable rooms in college . |
| 2 | One of the authors lived in St Helens for the last three weeks of the strike , becoming as immersed as possible in all aspects of the activities of the strike committee . |
| 3 | She never bought more , nor less , than she would need for her housekeeping for the next 24 hours . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The bitterness and the troubles of the coal mines for the next seven , or for that matter twenty-seven years , derived in great part from the feeling of both miners and owners that they had been betrayed . |
| 6 | Many of the best women tennis players from home and abroad will be competing in Swindon for the next 7 days . |
| 7 | Keep a detailed log of your activities during the next two weeks . |
| 8 | The suckling pup may also be infected by ingestion of L3 in the milk during the first three weeks of lactation . |
| 9 | There 's me been putting sugar in his Ovaltine for the last fifty years . |
| 10 | We shall examine the nature of these accounts during the next two chapters . |
| 11 | His variation margin payments of 6250 have been paid and the average FTSE100 index during the last ten minutes of trading is 1810.5 , implying an EDSP of 1810.5 . |
| 12 | The present value of dividends on the shares in the index during the next six months is £1000 , and the riskless rate of interest for six months is 5% . |
| 13 | The government 's overall aim was to freeze spending on state-owned enterprises , social security and defence for the next four years . |
| 14 | Britain 's fight for better budgeting terms dominated much of the debate within the EEC for the first ten years of British membership , masking the more important questions of sovereignty and Federalism . |
| 15 | Small wonder that the estimates of global sea-level rise for the next 100 years are very tentative . |
| 16 | SINBAD has been cleaning the windows in Channel 4 's Brookside since 1984 , although he has only been on a regular contract for the last two years . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | By the early part of the last century two kinds of hospital had emerged that set the pattern for finance and provision for the next 150 years ( Abel-Smith , 1964 ) . |
| 19 | Subject to budgetary approval , the plan ratified by both houses of the federal parliament will mean growth of 16 per cent pa in the science budget for the next four years . |
| 20 | The country 's current-account deficit for the first 10 months of the fiscal year also showed a fall of 27 per cent compared with the same period in 1989/90 . |
| 21 | In this year the US economy experienced serious trade and current-account deficits : the $170 billion trade deficit for the first nine months was due in particular to an increase in non-oil imports . |
| 22 | The current account had been in deficit for the last 17 years and by late 1990 constituted around 7 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) . |
| 23 | They are DEVOTED to each other — she 's seeing a toy boy and he 's had a mistress for the last fourteen years |
| 24 | The Rev Leslie Gready was led from the Friday morning service to the grounds of St Cuthbert 's Church , Darlington , where he has been vicar for the last ten years . |
| 25 | Andrew 's wife , Abi , a former production manager , has been a freelance photographer for the last five years . |
| 26 | Mrs Simmons , a photographer for the last 15 years , also achieved one of two merits from the BIPP for a photograph of the Cornmill centre in Darlington . |
| 27 | Firstly , he has been involved with the team as a test driver for the last two years ' development of the incredibly successful active-ride suspension system which powered Mansell to the world title . |
| 28 | The perpetrators of the coup would be imprisoned by the storm for the next twenty-four hours . |
| 29 | The COPEI and the MAS on Feb. 24 declined Pérez 's request to the secretaries-general of all main opposition parties to join a " political cabinet " of ministers without portfolio to draft policies for the next two years of government . |
| 30 | The Museum is a registered Charity with no public funding and Mick Miller , Finance Trustee , said : ‘ This sponsorship is a very generous gesture and we are delighted that this has come from an enterprising local company which has pledged support for our activities for the next three years . ’ |