Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [noun] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dromore jockey John Reid who is having his best ever season was in a suitably bullish mood when I spoke to him about the remainder of the 1993 Flat racing year which has seen him head inexorably towards 100 winners for the first time in his career . |
| 2 | It has now prepared a short-list of five projects for the next round of decisions to be made in a year or two , although the agency warns that these more ambitious and expensive projects can only be funded at the rate of one every 2½ years . |
| 3 | Two guineas were paid for the use of the engine and hose , with payment of two shillings for the first hour and one shilling per hour afterwards for firemen , and one shilling for the first hour and six pence afterwards for pumpers . |
| 4 | This secures work for 55 employees for the next four years and David is delighted that the council recognised its own catering organisation as providing best value for money . |
| 5 | So she says they usually put schedules on for fourteen month for the next ten months , twelve months . |
| 6 | I refer not only to the fact that the match started with two wides , courtesy of Chris Lewis ; not only to the strange sight of an opening bowler in odd socks ( Neil Mallender black left sock , white right sock ) ; not only to the fact that England had no player with three initials for the first time since the third Test against New Zealand in 1990 , the selectors having left out Salisbury and having sent get-well-soon messages to DeFreitas , Tufnell and Fraser ; not only to the fact that Mallender joined the huge list of Test opening bowlers with a double ‘ I ’ in their name ( a list that in recent years has included Dilley , Allott , Small , Williams and Ellison : expect Millns to add his name to the pile soon . |
| 7 | Splitting into two teams for the first attempt , Fowler and Jones climbed the incomplete Japanese route up the south ridge but were driven back by poor weather , while Saunders and Sustad attempted the spur . |
| 8 | But this time captain Arjuna Ranatunga and the dependable Hashan Tillekeratne put on 75 in 18 overs for the fifth wicket to clinch their country 's famous win . |
| 9 | This will liberate much needed space in one two one , and enable the Board to bring together its central administration in one place for the first time ever . |
| 10 | Amre , who helped add 118 in 38 overs for the fifth wicket with Tendulkar , made 78 from 154 balls before holing out to long-off . |
| 11 | We only had to wait for five minutes for the first boooooom … and a second … and a third . |
| 12 | Aggregate quotas for the 13 OPEC countries were increased progressively from 16,600,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) for the second half of 1988 to 18,500,000 bpd for the first half of 1989 , to 19,500,000 bpd for the second half of 1989 ( and further to 20,500,000 bpd for the fourth quarter of the year ) and to 22,086,000 bpd for the first half of 1990 ( see pp. 36573 ; 36751 ; 36910 ; 37053 ) . |
| 13 | Surbiton LTC won the men 's doubles over 45 event for the third year when they overcame Manchester Northern Club in the finals of the Eagle Star Inter Club Veterans Tournament held at Queen 's Club during November . |
| 14 | Jochen and Elke warn Fabian not to go out on the streets on 7 October for the 40th anniversary of the formation of East Germany , and for God 's sake not to demonstrate . |
| 15 | Over 2400 JS pensioners gathered together for the 45th JS Veterans Reunions on March 29 , April 5 and 26 — the event being organised on three days for the second time due to the large number of participants from all corners of the country . |
| 16 | The 13-member cartel again failed to set firm quotas for individual members [ see pp. 37641 ; 37930 ; 38122 ] but agreed to raise the collective output ceiling from 22,300,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) to 23,650,000 bpd for the fourth quarter of 1991 . |
| 17 | They arrange crews , sailing one per three beginners for the first week ; for the second week they coach on request . |
| 18 | Real Sociedad , who are managed by John Toshack , were missing six first-team regulars because of injury and were reduced to ten men for the last 30 minutes . |
| 19 | The Dutch , like England at Wembley last month , struggled at times to break through against a side reduced to ten men for the last half-hour after William Guerra was sent off . |
| 20 | In the Hague , the International Court of Justice said it would sit on 1 April for the first public hearing in a war crimes case Bosnia has brought against Serbia and Montenegro . |
| 21 | The first 10 procedures were performed in a median 166 minutes but with increasing experience and modification of the technique , there was a gradual reduction in procedure time to 51 minutes for the last 50 patients . |
| 22 | It costs up to thirty pounds for the first series of jabs … ansd then between fifteen and twenty pounds for an annual booster . |
| 23 | Aggregate quotas for the 13 OPEC countries were increased progressively from 16,600,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) for the second half of 1988 to 18,500,000 bpd for the first half of 1989 , to 19,500,000 bpd for the second half of 1989 ( and further to 20,500,000 bpd for the fourth quarter of the year ) and to 22,086,000 bpd for the first half of 1990 ( see pp. 36573 ; 36751 ; 36910 ; 37053 ) . |
| 24 | Aggregate quotas for the 13 OPEC countries were increased progressively from 16,600,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) for the second half of 1988 to 18,500,000 bpd for the first half of 1989 , to 19,500,000 bpd for the second half of 1989 ( and further to 20,500,000 bpd for the fourth quarter of the year ) and to 22,086,000 bpd for the first half of 1990 ( see pp. 36573 ; 36751 ; 36910 ; 37053 ) . |
| 25 | The most important of these restricted speed to 20 mph for the first 6 months of working in order to permit the road bed to consolidate satisfactorily . |
| 26 | Aggregate quotas for the 13 OPEC countries were increased progressively from 16,600,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) for the second half of 1988 to 18,500,000 bpd for the first half of 1989 , to 19,500,000 bpd for the second half of 1989 ( and further to 20,500,000 bpd for the fourth quarter of the year ) and to 22,086,000 bpd for the first half of 1990 ( see pp. 36573 ; 36751 ; 36910 ; 37053 ) . |
| 27 | These allowances were increased during the war , and by 1918 were worth four shillings for the first child , decreasing to one shilling each for fourth and subsequent children . |
| 28 | The proportion of lone-parent families has remained fairly steady at 14 percent for the last five years ( OPCS , 1988 ) . |