Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And two companies with strong Australian transport interests , Britannic Shipping and Playmaker , have agreed sponsorship deals worth nearly £100,000 a year between them for the next three years . |
| 2 | Erm and if it 's not it 's er I 'm not going to deny the fact that some people say you know this has been good for me for the last eighteen months erm I 'm er I 'm used to being self employed I 'm going to stay that way but I 'm looking at other avenues . |
| 3 | As well as coaching many of Britain 's leading international crews , Spracklen is a key member of the Oxford University team , and he will be returning from Canada in March to look after them for the last fortnight before the Boat Race . |
| 4 | Having watched television documentaries about life in East Germany , Becker was keen to see for himself for the first time . |
| 5 | I did the business with my camera , now there was plenty of light with the barn doors open , and was in the process of replacing the tarpaulin when the alarm bells went off and scared the hell out of me for the second time in five minutes . |
| 6 | As the white cliffs of Dover receded and the coast of France drew near , the inimitable excitement of ‘ abroad ’ took hold of me for the first time — the only really positive emotion I had felt for twenty-six months . |
| 7 | Even more interestingly , I understand that even some of Mrs Thatcher 's friends share this opinion and are proposing — some of them for the first time in their lives — not to vote for the Tories . |
| 8 | Seventy boys and girls from U6 to U14 played rugby — most of them for the first time ever . |
| 9 | According to forecasts no less than 2 million people will visit Seville in the six months of Expo , many of them for the first time . |
| 10 | Any major phases or colonisation are as likely to have taken place in the seventh , eighth or ninth centuries , as Peter Sawyer has suggested , and therefore to be undocumented , as they are to have happened in the thirteenth century , when we hear of them for the first time from surviving records . |
| 11 | ‘ Millions of people travel to the region every year many of them for the first time and we want to make sure that the lasting impression they take with them is a good one . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Millions of people travel to the region every year , many of them for the first time , and we want to make sure the lasting impression they take with them is a good one . ’ |
| 13 | Others are saying , a lot of them for the last few years have been saying , this is ridiculous . |
| 14 | ‘ WHIT 'S yer name hen ? ’ the drunk and dishevelled man on the train asked the woman opposite him for the fourth time in a very loud voice . |
| 15 | But the marriage plan for Matilda was now dead , and within a few months her father was killed in a border skirmish , and we hear no more of her for the next seven years . |
| 16 | ‘ Allocate a man to take care of him for the next few days until his tutor , T'ai Cho , joins him . ’ |
| 17 | THESE FOUR boxes of action highlights from Pickwick enable the devout to exhume the 1992 World Cup , feeling it again as if they were in attendance in Australasia once more or seeing much of it for the first time if sleep and work schedules got in the way during those 33 hectic days and nights . |
| 18 | All junior pupils will be involved in the planting and each of the five school houses will be responsible for a section , taking care of it for the next few years . |
| 19 | I do n't know exactly how long , but I 've been aware of it for the last eighteen months . |
| 20 | I had to practically bite my knuckles to keep my hands off you for the last three weeks , and I did it because of your innocence ! |
| 21 | 750,000 copies of this booklet have been produced and we will try to get copies for you for the next Q.T. Day . |
| 22 | She said , ‘ I expect it 'll be something you 'll remember and treasure for the rest of your lives , ’ and Carrie was pleased because she sounded like herself for the first time that day . |
| 23 | I walked back behind him for the last several hundred yards , and was shocked at the sheer , mindless , bestial ferocity of the crowd . |
| 24 | Given that ( i ) no other sources support this view ; ( ii ) the view is none the less generally reasonable ; ( iii ) evidence from Pomponius ( and perhaps also Julian ) seems to speak against it for the second century ; and ( iv ) a Justinianic interpolation seems unlikely , it seems most probable that the text represents the genuine view of Papinian . |
| 25 | Beneath it for the first time , they saw Titron , lying in the water some quarter of a mile away ; a huge , red-lit steel cliff with the black sea boiling pinky-white below . |
| 26 | I think you 'd better work with me for the next few days , or if I 'm not here , then with one of my staff nurses . |
| 27 | You 've put up with me for the last ten days . ’ |
| 28 | In an effort to improve its PR , the country 's most prestigious hunt , pictured above this weekend , invited a journalist to ride out with them for the first time . |
| 29 | I tell them to take their time ; it is hoped that the dog will be with them for the next ten years or more — what are a few minutes ? |
| 30 | We stand with them for the last gloomy minutes till the clock strikes the hour . |