Example sentences of "for [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and equally responsible on that one for eleven pounds , five P |
| 2 | They abandoned as unrealistic the " 50 per cent gap reduction " formula for eleven zones with the most damaged soils , forest and lakes . |
| 3 | We squat on the ground , eating our lunch as we go , and work as fast as we can for eleven hours every day . |
| 4 | And she 's paid for eleven hours . |
| 5 | She said Monday night I , er I do n't know whether we 've done the right thing by booking this holiday she said , I 'm thinking about the travelling in the air , it 'll be in travelling for eleven hours so she said I do n't know how I 'll be , I said it 's no use looking at it like that Alice now |
| 6 | Remarkably United have n't lost to Charlton in their last eleven meetings ; today 's draw means they 've drawn six of them and won five of them , but for eleven meetings , United have not lost to Charlton . |
| 7 | My own not immoderate personal effects have furnished employment for eleven persons … |
| 8 | In January 1940 the requirement was for eleven cars , but this sometimes rose to fifteen , and a special siding was constructed at Rossall . |
| 9 | They 're only coming for eleven weeks , and that of course starting in June , take some holidays , and |
| 10 | It was a song with everything : baroque references , long sombre organ solos , and words so opaque that they could mean all things to all people , unless they actually asked what they meant-which was , unless one was very stoned , nothing which was why , for eleven weeks , during that summer it was high in the charts . |
| 11 | We 're on the same side and you know and I know that some of the troops are gon na find that , I , my opinion is that some of the troops will find that hard going for eleven weeks unless they know exactly what the hell they 're supposed to be doing in |
| 12 | By now , the case of Sumner v. Virgin had dragged on in the law courts for eleven days , with the two parties holding each other up in the centre of the ring like panting heavyweights , while the legal fees gushed forth like blood from the wounds . |
| 13 | He 'd been held for eleven days . |
| 14 | At night , no question of sleep for the men worn out by the day 's shelling ( it was not unknown for men in the line to go without sleep for eleven days ) . |
| 15 | Aung San 's demand for eleven seats out of fifteen was not conceded and at the end of the month the Governor appointed a Council of ten members , of whom only two were British . |
| 16 | The saloons with three side windows with opening lights above , were of conventional design for the period , with lincrusta flat ceilings and long bent plywood benches for eleven passengers each side . |
| 17 | For eleven men there was one latrine bucket . |
| 18 | He was a great lad now , though still slight and not above average height for eleven years , but he had not changed towards her in the least and his adoration of Pilade was touching . |
| 19 | General Charles de Gaulle was elected President of France , in 1958 , a position he held for eleven years . |
| 20 | Boyle had been , with one short break , continuously in Government office for eleven years and was to be the last Minister of Education , as Butler had been the first . |
| 21 | For all her strange behaviour in rehearsals and in the office , she had held her position as director for eleven years and during that time the Tiller troupes still commanded the highest respect and dominated all other dance troupes . |
| 22 | In 1825 , by which time he was 52 years of age and had been back in Australia for eleven years , a new Governor was appointed . |
| 23 | It was not that unpleasant memories were evoked , for these were always with him , his existence was inseparable from that old bitterness , but that a sight of the house , even the glimpse of a photograph , revived the precise feelings he had had — why , it must be getting on for eleven years ago . |
| 24 | In 1629 the King dissolved Parliament , castigating its leaders as ‘ vipers ’ , and did not recall it for eleven years . |
| 25 | She and her husband ran a restaurant for eleven years before opening up Ford Farm in 1973 . |
| 26 | Tork had been Station Officer in Tel Aviv for eleven years . |
| 27 | In the end the scene to which she had objected was cut and , directly or indirectly , Mrs Whitehouse became persona non grata at the BBC for eleven years . |
| 28 | David himself , however , was wounded in the face and taken prisoner by a Northumbrian knight , John of Copeland : he was to remain a prisoner in England for eleven years . |
| 29 | You have been Disney Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge for eleven years and since the mid-Sixties you have held posts at the Universities of Sheffield and Southampton . |
| 30 | Instead Helen Mules , who has been in the department for eleven years , has taken over as Associate Curator Acting in Charge . |