Example sentences of "[n mass] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prices range from £9.95 for a three-metre black , blue or red cable up to £13.95 for a 5 metre orange or green version , £15.95 for a 5m translucent pink jobbie and £17.95 for a 5m toaster-type . |
| 2 | The range consists of 17 items with prices starting from £1 for a guest soap up to £9.95 for a pair of luxury coathangers . |
| 3 | An attendance rate of 90% for a week means that out of the 1000 possible attendances over the week , 900 were recorded . |
| 4 | US West Inc , which last week was talking about the multimedia database system it is developing with Oracle Corp ( CI No 2,166 ) , is stepping up its commitment to infotainment by agreeing to pay $2,500m for a 25% stake in Time Warner Inc 's Time Warner Entertainment affiliate — in which Toshiba Corp and Japanese trader Itochu Corp each has a stake — to seal a deal under which the two companies will collaborate to develop electronic superhighways — full-service cable networks offering interactive programming , entertainment and information . |
| 5 | A maximum of £3,300 for a perimeter board facing the television cameras and £2,600 for a season 's worth of full-page advertisements in the match-day programme . |
| 6 | Sickness benefit is payable for up to twenty-eight weeks if a person is incapacitated for work at the rate of£33.20 a week , together with £20.55 for an adult dependant . |
| 7 | When Evangelista demanded £8,800 for an appearance at Valentino 's show last year , he refused : ‘ I like them , but I hate the stardom created around them , ’ he said . |
| 8 | And BaByliss has brought out Soft Curlers ( around £27 for a set of 20 ) , which have easy-to-use fasteners . |
| 9 | US prices go from $2,000 for a 12 user licence to $12,000 for a 250 user copy . |
| 10 | Room rates are pitched at £69 for a single and up to £140 for a de luxe double . |
| 11 | Charges £69 for a course of 10 one-hour sessions on the toning tables ( nine minutes on each of the six tables per session ) . |
| 12 | All prices for cushions are inclusive of the feather pad and VAT and start from £7.95 for a cotton , contrast piped , 16″ × 16″ cushion with a choice of 30 colours ! |
| 13 | Values obtaining south of the Humber — at least 5s. for a cow or 4s. for a steer — can hardly have applied : even the smallest stock farm must have carried more than just one or two ; sheep fetched 1s. apiece in other parts . |
| 14 | It does seem though , that nothing came of these leases , and during 1749 upon request by Sir William Fleming , one John Lawson ( a Quaker ) sent up Joseph Vipone to see the mines at Coniston and for this Lawson paid him 12s. plus 4s. for a horse for four days . |
| 15 | Prices start from £1.95 for a peeler up to £11.45 for a cook 's knife . |
| 16 | Even though the school site was very open and the playground used by hordes of unsupervised teenagers and children in the evenings and weekends the only graffiti for a number of years was a ‘ smiley face ’ with the headteacher 's name scrawled beneath . |
| 17 | They stared at the dead sheep for a few seconds longer , then went back to the van . |
| 18 | Mussolini harangued his people long and often , peppering his speeches with slogans like ‘ it is better to be a lion for a year than a sheep for a hundred years ’ . |
| 19 | Prices start from £40,995 for a studio and £49,995 for one-bedroom flats . |
| 20 | Charges ranging from £78 a year for a 240-litre wheeled bin to £290 for a 1,110 litre wheeled bin will start from August this year . |
| 21 | At home , if the washing machine blows up , M.V. Services in Thamesmead will charge you £23.44 for an hour of a washing machine engineer 's time . |
| 22 | Four other cases , brought on Sept. 10 and 12 , involved the improper grant of a contract to oversee a power scheme , the export of Pakistani cotton at below market rates , the sale of property in Islamabad worth £150,000,000 for a mere £500,000 to a foreign company managed by associates of her husband , Asif Ali Zardari , and the improper granting of permits to a close relation and to a friend enabling them to distribute liquified gas . |
| 23 | The five-speed manual gearbox is smoothness personified , and the urban thirst is put at a remarkable 34.9mph for a car of this size . |
| 24 | The system will available in August with prices starting at $45,000 for an entry-level , 12 processor model 9012 with 300 MFLOPS . |
| 25 | Forced back on a policy of self help , the RCM soon discovered that the public responded best when appeals were made of behalf of specific projects — £40 to support one boy in a course of agricultural training , say , or £60 for a year 's schooling . |
| 26 | In the store rings an entry of 400 bullocks continued to meet an excellent trade and sold to a top of £930 for Belgian Blue 464kg and to £920 for a Simmental 638kg . |
| 27 | This should last for five to seven years , and costs around £14 for a 7kg packet , to cover 20 to 40m² ( do n't apply over masonry paint ) . |
| 28 | Prices start at £14 for a cotton vest while their silk jacquard pyjamas at £288 are about the top of the price band . |
| 29 | For chunky knitting , a 90% Courtelle/10% Nylon Brushed Chunky has been introduced in five pale shades to retail at approximately £1.89 for a 100 gram ball . |
| 30 | Bacon Bites ( £1.99 for a 12oz pack ) are bite-sized pieces of minced bacon in crumbs and Bacon Hoops ( £1.59 for a 9oz pack ) are minced bacon bites with cheese . |