Example sentences of "[vb -s] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On average a school pupil enrols for 2.2 modules in a year compared to 5.6 modules for an FE student . |
| 2 | On this example , Peter Dawson 's rendition of ‘ God Save The King ’ plays for 22 seconds . |
| 3 | This example plays for 3 minutes 10 seconds and weighs 2.2 kilograms . |
| 4 | It loops for two miles through the city , lined with splendid palaces dating from the 14th century . |
| 5 | Are the three ICAM ligands for LFA-1 functionally equivalent , or does each one have a unique role ? |
| 6 | Both countries were among the non-permanent membership of the Council , which sits for two years , the others for that particular two-year period being Canada , Colombia , the Ivory Coast , Ethiopia , Finland , Malaysia , Romania and Zaire . |
| 7 | The President appoints the Prime Minister and Cabinet from among the members of the unicameral House of Assembly , which is composed of 21 elected representatives and nine appointed senators and sits for five years . |
| 8 | Legislative authority is vested in a unicameral National Assembly which sits for five years and consists of six appointed Senators and 15 popularly elected representatives . |
| 9 | Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir on Oct. 7 bitterly condemned the decision by the US Congress to delay US$10,000 million in loan guarantees for 120 days [ see p. 38452 ] saying the action struck at " the deepest foundations of Jewish and Zionist existence " . |
| 10 | The claim that " The eye either functions as a whole , or not at all " turns out to be , not merely false but self-evidently false to anybody who thinks for 2 seconds about his own familiar experience . |
| 11 | Given constraints on public expenditure , it is unlikely that the Government could be persuaded to introduce maintenance grants for 16 to 18-year-olds . |
| 12 | But I expect that goes for millions of unnecessary car owners ! |
| 13 | The same goes for millions : just replace ‘ B ’ by ‘ M ’ . |
| 14 | Well done , that , so that goes for four , that 's for four then those go one , two , three , four , like that you see , but it 's four |
| 15 | I think we 've said it before did , about David Lawrence that he , he has the ability to bowl very quickly and in that learning curve of test cricket , he 's now got to go from a , a lad who goes for five and six and all the regularly , he 's got to drop that economy rate , down to three and still take the and then he 's a test bowler . |
| 16 | Her freshly baked treat goes for 100 Kwanzas , about £2 at the legal exchange rate but just two pence on the open market . |
| 17 | What goes for one player should also go for the other . |
| 18 | If Labour 's petit Bourbons fail to recognise at last that the division of the non-Tory vote has for two decades made majority Labour government impossible , and that the Liberal Democrats are not going to disappear , then at least a disunited rump of the UK will be consigned forever to that category . |
| 19 | The human race has for thousands of years been aware of powerful links between tears and health . |
| 20 | For myself , I can see no relevant distinction between a case where a statute has conferred such final and conclusive jurisdiction and the case where the common law has for 300 years recognised that the visitor 's decision on questions of fact and law are final and conclusive and are not to be reviewed by the courts . |
| 21 | ARMS has for 15 years battled against Multiple Sclerosis on behalf of sufferers , their carers and families . |
| 22 | ARMS has for 15 years battled against Multiple Sclerosis on behalf of sufferers , their carers and families . |
| 23 | Section 123(1) of the Insolvency Act 1986 provides that a company is deemed unable to pay its debts if a creditor ( by assignment or otherwise ) to whom the company is indebted in a sum exceeding £750 then due has served on the company , by leaving it at the company 's registered office , a written demand ( in the prescribed form ) requiring the company to pay the sum so due and the company has for three weeks thereafter neglected to pay the sum or to secure or compound for it to the reasonable satisfaction of the creditor . |
| 24 | a creditor for more than £750 has served on the company a demand for the sum due , and the company has for three weeks failed to pay the debt ; |
| 25 | What will be the new proper numbers of the agents at the side of the page when now stands for 8 ? |
| 26 | 2 If you are told that 1 stands for 8 , that is 1 8 , find the value of the following : |
| 27 | This means that the Board will have issued exposure drafts for 10 of the 11 standards affected by the Statement of Intent . |
| 28 | The result was a data matrix giving pixel counts for five land-cover types together with the recorded population for the 49 wards . |
| 29 | Each article or book chapter counts for one point ; each book counts for ten ; and the productivity trend , needless to say , is on the up and up . |
| 30 | Obtains pixel counts for one half of the image , both for the subject and the reference card . |