Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [noun] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French students won PETRA funding to visit Scotland for two weeks , spending one week in college and one week on a work placement . |
| 2 | A FOUR-YEAR fight to win compensation for 175 Borders textile workers has ended in success after the chief executive of the Employment Service admitted his staff had made mistakes and given incorrect advice . |
| 3 | The Highlanders were said to live on a diet of children , while the prince 's quartermaster put in a well-timed but no doubt inflated demand for the town to provide billets for 13,000 foot and , a more accurate figure , 300 horse . |
| 4 | Awarded a free place at Birmingham University to study music for three years , Peter was short of basics like clothes and books until Elaine Blond gave him £30 and arranged for Peter to work at Bloomsbury House in his holidays to help make up any shortfall . |
| 5 | During the Cultural Revolution , he was sent to the countryside to plant rice for two years . |
| 6 | A patent is , after all , a licence to print money for fourteen years — if your invention is a good one , that is . |
| 7 | Hills was the first US Cabinet-level official to visit Taiwan for 13 years . |
| 8 | The Soviet Minister of Culture , Nikolai Gubenko , became the most senior Soviet official to visit Taiwan for 40 years when he arrived on Nov. 11 for " private discussions " on possible cultural contacts . |