Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early on , she demanded from each member a list of the people they had consulted during the previous three months . |
| 2 | While in Ceylon we visited Allied Headquarters in Kandy , where I was taken one afternoon by Colonel Christian into the ‘ War Room ’ to hear the reports received during the last twenty-four hours , and a commentary on them by a senior staff officer . |
| 3 | And the salary reference is the highest salary rate you 've actually received during the last three years . |
| 4 | I must take this opportunity to say a personal thank you to each and everyone of you for your kind support and all the good wishes that I have received during the past six months . |
| 5 | But this turnover is so extraordinarily slow that each grain could only have been exposed during the last 4600 Ma for a total time much less than a million years thus requiring considerably higher cosmic-ray intensities in the past , which though possible is thought by several scientists to be unlikely . |
| 6 | Erm so I all we 're trying to do now at the moment though is , is to , to operate from the point of view of saying look , if you actually take all these things into account , we should n't be worse than we were ultimately , once these systems have bedded in , we 're doing more checking on letters for example th than , than we w we wo n't have to once we 've checked through the first two months of auto-offs , and we 're getting used to the new reports and so on and that sort of stuff , so we expect there to be a blip , but you would expect a learning curve in anyway . |
| 7 | I noticed there are horse treks arranged for the next three days . |
| 8 | Mr Tebbit , the ex-party chairman and MP for Chingford , asked Mr Hurd ‘ whether the pledge that we have given for the last four general elections , that there would be no further large-scale immigration , still stands or not ? ’ |
| 9 | No price was given for the newer M-16 on the wall . |
| 10 | The skirt developed for the Super 4 was more efficient than its predecessors : less of it touched the sea , so less power was wasted in overcoming water resistance . |
| 11 | The couple will begin their married life in Cyprus , where Paul , whose home is in Liverpool , has been posted for the next 18 months . |
| 12 | A cow , reared for the first six months of its life in an environment of people and horses , may refuse to have anything to do with cows in its own paddock for all the years that follow . |
| 13 | Only inhabited for the past two hundred years , the unique flora and fauna of these delightfully unsophisticated island have been allowed to evolve undisturbed over the past 600 million years , yielding a unique heritage of birds and blooms encompassing the spectrum 's every colour . |
| 14 | 20–6 Mrs McIver , wife of the Moderator , asked to be relieved of the duty of leader of praise which she had undertaken for the past two years . |
| 15 | The road from Silchester to Durobrivae and includes Dorchester-on-Thames , Alchester , Towcester and Irchester , assuming there is a gap in the road yet to be filled between the last two places . |
| 16 | Up to one million purchases are estimated to have been delayed during the last three years because of the sluggish market . |
| 17 | Corporate profits have fallen for the past three years . |
| 18 | Allegheny West Civic Council ( AWCC ) was formed during the early 1970s to mark the distinctiveness of the area from neighbouring Manchester , which had a reputation for disadvantage . |
| 19 | He played in last summer 's first Test against Pakistan — getting a first ball duck — and was dropped again before being recalled for the final two Tests . |
| 20 | Savings accounts in banks were left untouched , but the decree limited for the next six months the amount of cash which could be withdrawn from accounts to a maximum Rbs500 per month , although it authorized the use of bank transfers by individuals for payment to state shops and enterprises . |
| 21 | Running like this , with the mad south-west wind behind her , gave her a glorious sense of freedom , for her exercise had been terribly limited for the past five weeks . |
| 22 | As we come to the end of this Parliament , will the Secretary of State take this opportunity to give us some insight into the Government 's long-term policy which has been formulated during the past 13 years ? |
| 23 | The Mersey building programme had continued at an impressive rate throughout 1990 with orders recently placed for the last 14 fibre reinforced composite ( FRC ) boats — due to be completed within the next 22 months . |
| 24 | The number of levels ranged from two to five , but only one scheme had a level designed for the lowest ten per cent of attainers . |
| 25 | It was they who caused a reluctant minister to accept , in 1963 , the introduction of an examination at 15 + other than O level ( the CSE examination ) specifically designed for the next 40 per cent of the ability range below the 20 per cent for whom 0 level was thought to be appropriate . |
| 26 | Paul and Sarah Davison retained the junior doubles title they have won for the last two years . |
| 27 | A General Election was expected during the next two years , but already there were signs that the Peace Alliance was preparing to test its strength among the electorate . |
| 28 | As an example , if there is a gain on the sale of a property owned equally for fifteen years , occupied for the first ten years by both husband and wife and for the last five years by only the wife , there is complete exemption on the one-half share occupied by the wife throughout , and a chargeable gain to the extent of two-fifteenths of the gain on the other half ( the chargeable years being the five years after occupation had ceased less the 36 months ) . |
| 29 | The position of the team test driver , which McNish has occupied for the last two years with Marlboro McLaren , can lead to a permanent seat in the team — as happened to Damon Hill , who has replaced Nigel Mansell alongside Alain Prost with Williams-Renault . |
| 30 | People first settled there perhaps 130000 or 120000 years ago and the site seems to have been almost continuously occupied for the next 40000 to 8000 years . |