Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [num ord] four " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government 's overall aim was to freeze spending on state-owned enterprises , social security and defence for the next four years . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The agreement , which committed both parties to refrain from stepping up arms shipments during the next four months , also called on other arms suppliers , notably Pakistan and Saudi Arabia , to follow suit , stressing that any further assistance to Afghanistan should be purely humanitarian . |
| 4 | ‘ And of course Julius has lived like an absolute monk for the last four years , ’ Jessamy threw back at her angrily . |
| 5 | Well erm , I 've just come up and and the accident so I 'm only entitled to money for the first four days . |
| 6 | Road plea : Drivers are being asked to avoid roadworks on Birkenhead Road , Meols , Wirral , at peak times for the next four weeks due to road works . |
| 7 | The rate of ozone depletion in the Antarctic has slowed in the past few years , but the researchers say that their model predicts " a return to more rapid depletion during the next four years as the solar minimum is approached . " |
| 8 | Mineral revenue for the first four months of 1990 was calculated at US$1,075,600 . |
| 9 | But Bob Bagnell , who has imported charcoal from Indonesia for the last four years , says his source is not endangering the environment . |
| 10 | As head of Radio 2 's music department for the last four years , Ms Line has been responsible for the blend of easy listening that makes up 80 per cent of its 24-hours-a-day output , along with presenters such as Derek Jameson and Jimmy Young . |
| 11 | Coun Tomlinson , chairman of the social services committee , said : ‘ The Government has now announced how it intends to allocate funds for the next four years . |
| 12 | Thompson , in an interview on BBC Television 's Sportsnight programme , says he is neither pessimistic nor optimistic about his prospects for the Games but is convinced he can still be an athletics force for the next four or five years . |
| 13 | In fact , you 're a girl who 's going places — once you 've untied yourself from this man who 's been like a millstone around your neck for the last four years . |
| 14 | Waverley 's opening statement came from vice-chair Michele Munro , who said the trust board felt it was time to offer the benefits former Scottish Homes tenants in the Borders had enjoyed with Waverley for the last four years to Tweeddale tenants . |
| 15 | Blanche wanted to be clever and memorise the way his finger moved across the numbers but she could not maintain the concentration after the first four . |
| 16 | In that case , their opponents in the Cup Winners ' Cup quarter-finals , Partizan Belgrade , would receive a bye into the last four . |
| 17 | A comfortable second-leg victory in Turin took the Italian club into the last four on a 4-2 aggregate and took some of the pressure off Trapattoni in the light of Juventus 's poor domestic league form . |
| 18 | The district has been national finalists in the Britain in Bloom contest in the last four years and this has been achieved by the magnificent floral displays which can be seen throughout the summer months in our area . |
| 19 | Well , you keep playing do n't you , it 's a ninety minute game , and then , as we 've said erm I believe it was two goals in the last four minutes , was it ? |
| 20 | He retained this seat in the next four Parliaments , working for local bills in 1621 and 1624 , but it is clear that the ‘ country ’ for which he spoke was more often Sussex than Essex . |
| 21 | Six more contestants we need , the only rule is that you must n't have played a phone-in competition on this programme in the last four weeks . |
| 22 | So if you 'd like to play the game the only rule is that you must n't have played a phone in competition on this programme in the last four weeks . |
| 23 | Production of luxury cars at Jaguar rose by 56% in the first four months of the year , largely due to increased demand in its biggest market , America , where sales in the first four months were 27% higher than a year ago . |
| 24 | So those two factors affect how much of the client 's premium buys units in the first four years . |
| 25 | O K , so those are the two factors that affect the allocation to units in the first four years . |
| 26 | Two waves of innovation are relevant here : firstly , the permeation of Information Technology , particularly desktop publishing , across the curriculum in the 1980s and , secondly , the attempt in the last four years to position electronic , in the sense of non-print , publishing within the course . |
| 27 | Crawley shared a stand of 64 with Matthew Roberts in the last four overs . |
| 28 | By doing this we have also solved the problem of the awkward leap referred to above ; for , by giving the top line to the 2nd violins in the first four bars all technical difficulties are avoided , and , in addition , force and verve are given to the sforzando on the first beat of bar 5 , and greater point and conviction are gained for the abrupt change of key . |
| 29 | After all , she had had lots of practice over the last four years ! |
| 30 | It would seem that Madam ( please call me ‘ Falklands ’ ) Thatcher has decided that 145 local tax collection offices should be closed over the course of the next four years , with the loss of 3000 Inland Revenue jobs . |