Example sentences of "[n mass] for the [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The money they had to pay the sheep for the Cuddly Woolly Protection Racket did seem a lot . |
| 2 | This would provide a base and headquarters for the proposed educational programme . |
| 3 | Prices start at £35 for the basic medical kit , and cases cost from £175 . |
| 4 | DESIGNED in July 1945 at Tokyo University by Taichiro Ogawa and Ichiro Tani , the Baika ( Plum Blossom ) was intended as a special attack Aircraft for the Imperial Japanese Navy . |
| 5 | A new kitchen will probably cost between £5,000 and £10,000 for the average three-bedroomed home , but do n't spend more than 10 per cent of the house 's value . |
| 6 | A speciality dinner costs £1.50 for the main cavery dish , roasts , double loin , saddle of lamb , etc plus vegetables and extras . |
| 7 | In reality , however , it might be easier to find the £12,230 capital to finance the outdoor venture than the £88,000 for the alternative indoor housing . |
| 8 | Now Tim appears to have rekindled Princess Anne 's interest in sailing — she paid £94,000 for the 36-footer Blue Doublet earlier this year — and last year she made a glowing contribution to a celebrity compilation of ideas of Paradise . |
| 9 | Councillors heard the authority had to set a budget of £11,614,000 for the new financial year and the calculations were based on a community charge to be levied on 74,014 residents . |
| 10 | Mondeo prices are expected to be from about £12,000 to £17,000 for the luxury 2-litre ghia . |
| 11 | In the past , major criticisms of local government were directed towards : its financial weakness ; the relatively poor calibre of staff for the demanding professional work of modem services ; public apathy and lack of interest ; the inexcusable variations in local standards of basic provision ; and the anomalous division of the country into authorities based on old historical boundaries rather than demographic and economic realities which resulted in a population range of from fewer than 50,000 to over 1 million . |
| 12 | There must also be a place for ‘ commodity-money relations ’ , or in other words the market , which was an ‘ irreplaceable means for the flexible economic coordination of production with growing and constantly changing public requirements and an important instrument of public control over the quality of goods and the costs of their production ’ . |
| 13 | A similar battle is taking place over the Seoul Olympic champion Olaf Ludwig , with the all-West German Stuttgart team fighting Panasonic , who recently paid £400,000 for the Soviet Olympic track champion Vyatcheslav Ekimov . |
| 14 | Prices start at £5m for the entry-level seven-processor model — high-end models will be priced on a bid basis , although $125m is suggested as the price for a 222-processor models . |
| 15 | He became a member of the Royal Photographic Society and for his works for the Royal Geographical Society was made a life member in 1917 . |
| 16 | Last week , I approved a further £345,000 for the British Red Cross . |
| 17 | They raised £30,000 for the British Olympic Appeal . |
| 18 | The Economist of Dec. 23 , 1989 , reported that Japan 's Self-Defence Agency ( SDA ) had requested around 25,000,000 million yen for the forthcoming five-year defence programme , compared with 18,400,000 million yen for the present five-year plan . |
| 19 | The Economist of Dec. 23 , 1989 , reported that Japan 's Self-Defence Agency ( SDA ) had requested around 25,000,000 million yen for the forthcoming five-year defence programme , compared with 18,400,000 million yen for the present five-year plan . |
| 20 | Interior shutters , available in a variety of colours and sizes , from about £95 for the deep blue set shown . |
| 21 | Dow announced a 32 per cent fall in net profits in 1991 , to $935m , including a non-taxable gain of $213m for the initial public sale of Destec Energy stock , but this was offset by a $370m special charge . |
| 22 | The weapon is 5 m long , 55 cm in diameter and weighs 650 kg , including 170 kg for the high explosive warhead . |
| 23 | For the period 1 May , 1992 to 31 January , 1993 , pre-tax profits dropped from £881,000 for the previous comparable period to £629,000 . |