Example sentences of "for [noun] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was when Fernandez was hired from Miami for $195,000 a year and a basket of pension plans that would excite a baseball player . |
| 2 | The Ledingham-Smiths did not pay the £5,000 a week as required , but did continue the banker 's order for £1,000 a month . |
| 3 | The fines imposed upon the Earl of Lancaster and his followers were remitted , and Lancaster received confirmation of his right to Pontefract , Tutbury and Leicester , which he had not been able to recover after the revolution of 1327 , though he had to lease Pontefract from the queen for £1,000 a year . |
| 4 | Various reports a plea for support a plea for interest particularly for the seventy fifth anniversary year next year and after that we had the most lovely party . |
| 5 | Political opposition and delays in agreeing upon its plan have forced a Japanese robotics maker , Fanuc , to withdraw its offer to buy for $10m a 40% stake in Moore Special Tool . |
| 6 | Mr Dayton currently co-chairs a committee seeking to raise $50 million for endowment a far cry from the $30,000 annual drives he remembers leading in the 1940s ! |
| 7 | Mobil Badger is to offer for license a novel technology for reducing the benzene content of light reformate , the Mobil benzene reduction process . |
| 8 | This process directly undermined the rule of law : ‘ such transference of authority saps the foundation of that rule of law which has been for generations a leading feature of the English constitution . ’ |
| 9 | Although the sale of tiger products is banned in Taiwan , a large and not-very-covert market continues there , where an IUCN researcher recently found tiger bone on sale for $180 a pound . |
| 10 | I even got a job cleaning for £26 a fortnight and he spent that too , that used to make me feel dead small . |
| 11 | Where a contract term or notice purports to exclude or restrict liability for negligence a person 's agreement to or awareness of it is not of itself to be taken as indicating his voluntary acceptance of any risk . |
| 12 | Where a contract term or notice purports to exclude or restrict liability for negligence a person 's agreement to or awareness of it is not of itself to be taken as indicating his voluntary acceptance of any risk . |
| 13 | Section 2(3) states : " Where a contract term or notice purports to exclude or restrict liability for negligence a person 's agreement to or awareness of it is not of itself to be taken as indicating his voluntary acceptance of any risk . " |
| 14 | Less frequent travellers can have a transatlantic pager for £48 a week or £144 a month . |
| 15 | At Surrey the ‘ amateur ’ W. W. Read was employed as ‘ assistant secretary ’ to the club for £250 a year — a post he relinquished when he ceased to play . |
| 16 | For £250 a year , EDI users can subscribe to SITPRO 's EDIFACT Service , which provides a comprehensive guide to implementing the UN/EDIFACT standard , with regular updates as new message types are developed . |
| 17 | Finally , I 'd like to mention that we shall be recommending for shareholders a one for one scrip issue . |
| 18 | Sheringham , who cost £2 million from Millwall 12 months ago , was lined up for Spurs a fortnight ago but the deal was called off at the last minute . |
| 19 | If one has to identify a stimulus — for instance a word - then one can accomplish this more quickly if presentation of the word is immediately preceded by an associated word or picture . |
| 20 | Some calls have a more general effect , for instance a loud neigh or whinny may alarm the whole herd … in the main however , so far as communications between individuals are concerned , visual signals are more important than sounds . |
| 21 | For instance a gene may be successful through improving the running speed of a predator . |
| 22 | John was full of invention , always making up steps and sequences which he called by odd names : for instance a stamping step he called ‘ Sherman tanks ’ , which he devised for the zephyrs in Primavera and used again for the unicorns in Harlequin in April . |
| 23 | For instance a telephone listening service is offered to people in distress by associations such as the Samaritans and Befrienders . |
| 24 | Take for instance a young couple just married . |
| 25 | In robotics , for instance a number of British companies have begun to develop and make robots , so creating jobs directly . |
| 26 | For instance a colleague of mine returning from a remote part of Kenya commented on the habit among pregnant women of eating a particular sort of yellowish mud . |
| 27 | But significantly all these recording are of sound effects , replete with high frequencies , for instance a ratting matchbox , or earth falling on the top of a coffin in which the dummy head is being buried . |
| 28 | The cost equation complicates further because coaxial cable needs only simple connections at each end , for instance a plug to fit a TV set . |
| 29 | For instance a man who is over fifty and who smokes over twenty cigarettes a day is four times more likely to suffer from heart disease than a non-smoker of the same age . |
| 30 | The new rules for taxing manufactured interest , payments made to compensate for the loss of interest , where for instance a security is ‘ sold cum interest ’ but acquired by the seller ex interest in order to meet the sale , took effect on 29 June 1992 and apply from 30 June 1992 . |