Example sentences of "for a further [num] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clarke drove on for a further 200 metres before stopping and when he did emerge from the van witnesses reported that he was in a confused state . |
| 2 | He spent four hours with the therapist who administered it to him and supervised his acid trip , and he remained under a structured hallucinatory influence for a further five hours at home . |
| 3 | They can be held for 48 hours without charge under the Prevention of Terrorism Act and for a further five days at the discretion of the Home Secretary . |
| 4 | EC Education Ministers agreed on Dec. 14 , 1989 , at a meeting in Brussels to extend the Erasmus programme of inter-university exchanges , which had been running since 1988 , for a further five years from 1990 to 1994 . |
| 5 | The ban on political activity imposed when the NRM came to power was extended for a further five years in March 1990 . |
| 6 | His contract with the Royal College , due to end in September 1953 , was renewed for a further five years after that date . |
| 7 | In accordance with the Constitution a plebiscite was held on Oct. 5 , 1988 , to decide whether Pinochet should remain in office for a further eight years upon the expiry of his term in 1990 . |
| 8 | Fourteen months of negotiations between the Philippines and the United States were concluded on July 17 when the two sides agreed upon the terms of a new treaty which allowed the US military to continue to use its huge naval base at Subic Bay for a further 10 years after the expiry of the current lease . |
| 9 | They then remained undisturbed in their home cages for a further 16 days before experiencing the light again . |
| 10 | William lived on for a further 16 years after that , into the reign of George V and the First World War . |
| 11 | This was agreed in February 1906 and at the same time the order for a further 14 cars of the smaller type , to work the Sutton route , was cancelled when it was realized that the fifteen ‘ Croydon & District ’ cars dumped on the site of Mitcham Road Depôt ( Aurelia Road ) would have to be taken into the South Metropolitan fleet . |
| 12 | After a six hour trial , the jury retired for a further two hours before bringing a verdict of guilty . |
| 13 | Prospecting licences can be for up to 250 km² ; for an initial period of two years , renewable for a further two years at the discretion of the Department . |
| 14 | The final period of the Kettering scheme came when in 1938 the Cassell Trustees agreed to renew their grant for a further two years on a reducing scale with a concluding sum of £50 in 1940 to extinguish their support . |
| 15 | I am very pleased to announce that , thanks to the generosity of the Wolfson Foundation and family charitable trust , the museums and galleries improvement fund has been extended for a further two years to 1995-96 . |
| 16 | Baird was there for a further two years before leaving in 1987 with chef Barry Forster , who had been offered the position of head chef at Longueville Manor on Jersey . |
| 17 | The scallops would be put on to the seabed after about two years growth in special nets , and grown on for a further two years before harvesting . |
| 18 | When we first arrived home from Hong Kong , we did not know about the aorta problem , so two days after our homecoming Michael went to London for a further two days of meetings . |
| 19 | In January 1990 the UN Security Council agreed to extend the mandate for a further two months of the detachment of 40 officers from 10 countries making up the UN Good Offices Mission in Afghanistan and Pakistan ( UNGOMAP ) , created to monitor the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan as well as other aspects of the Geneva Accords of 1988 . |
| 20 | Officers and volunteer NCOs were trained at the centre for six weeks before joining the Independent Companies in which volunteer soldiers were trained for a further six weeks by their own officers . |
| 21 | The dam is to be built on the Bio Bio river , Chile 's largest , and environmentalists fear that it will open the way for a further six dams on the river , as well as damaging the monkey puzzle Araucaria araucana pine forests , which the government has declared a national monument . |
| 22 | President 's rule was extended in Punjab for a further six months on April 5 when the bill proposing its extension was passed by the Lok Sabha ( lower house of Parliament ) . |
| 23 | On May 9 the Lok Sabha approved a resolution extending President 's rule for a further six months from May 11 [ President 's rule had first been imposed in May 1987 — see pp. 35247-48 — and had been renewed since at six-monthly intervals ] . |
| 24 | On Aug. 4 , 1989 , the Karnataka High Court upheld the constitutional validity of the imposition in April of President 's rule in the state [ see p. 36591 ] , and on Oct. 12 the Lok Sabha approved its extension for a further six months from Oct. 21 . |
| 25 | The election date announcement on April 12 included confirmation of postponement to an unspecified later date , for security reasons , of polling in Punjab ( where president 's rule was formally extended on March 13 for a further six months — see above for need to pass constitutional amendment allowing this before Parliament was dissolved ) , in Assam , where president 's rule was also extended on March 13 for a further six months from the end of May , and in Jammu and Kashmir , president 's rule there having been extended for six more months from March 3 , as approved by Parliament on Feb. 27 . |
| 26 | On Aug. 26 the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha approved the extension of president 's rule in Jammu and Kashmir for a further six months from its expiry on Sept. 2 . |
| 27 | On Dec. 19 the Cabinet extended for a further six months from Dec. 31 the mandate of the multinational force deployed in the south and south-east of the country for the protection of Iraqi Kurds . |
| 28 | The temporary ‘ window of opportunity ’ which has made gifts of works of art and other property to US museums fully tax deductible since January 1991 , has been extended for a further eighteen months from July . |
| 29 | Behind this superb spur the vines of Clos des Goisses extend for a further 8 hectares on north-east-facing slopes and rise at a lesser incline from 100 to 138 metres , after which the land flattens out towards Avenay . |
| 30 | The Joint ESRC/SERC Transport Committee ( JTC ) was established in 1978 for an initial period of two years and extended for a further 4 years after a review in 1980 . |