Example sentences of "[coord] [num] [noun] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She normally emerged every five or six hours for a hunting trip of about half an hour , returning to the den with eels . |
| 2 | Expect to wait two or three months for a reply . |
| 3 | It takes some 5 or 6 years for a nest to produce sexual insects , so that it would appear that the complete defoliation of the immediate area or the removal of the more palatable species would lead to deteriorating conditions for the ants . |
| 4 | We made ball and roller bearings for the car trade , the car trade had come a slump and the car trade to this day does n't want one bearing or one detail for a car until it 's ready to put it on a car . |
| 5 | An act can make a successful first LP which may have taken five or seven years for a band 's songwriters to create . |
| 6 | And we 've got you know that is actually a lot lower than it used to be because we they actually caught us charging them three hundred and fifty quid for a bearing that we 're now charging them two hundred and fifty quid for . |
| 7 | And it was six and eight pence for a set of shoes on a |
| 8 | Passages will be dictated at 110 , 120 , 130 and 140 wpm for a period of 5 minutes . |
| 9 | Your working life , for this purpose , is normally considered to be 44 years for a woman and 49 years for a man ( i.e. age 16 until pension age ) , but it may be less if you were of working age but not in insurable employment when the National Insurance Scheme started in 1948 . |
| 10 | Well think , why pay out for a hundred and forty pounds for a suit , when you gon na wear it again ? |
| 11 | He says well I 'm not paying you for it , he says you put it on and it do n't work , he says well we want it back , he says well you take it back and put my parts on that you took off , he says we ca n't , he says well I 'm not paying you hundred and forty pound for a part that do n't work and he says , anyway he says er , are you sure it 's a hundred and forty pound he said , an oil filter cost ten pound at some places but they 're actually only two so if you di divide it by five that 's forty pounds , he says I 'll pay you forty pound , but I 'm not paying you no hundred and forty he said . |
| 12 | A hundred and forty pound for a suit . |
| 13 | During 1990 the Appeal Court upheld prison sentences of 6 years for a confidence trickster who raised barely 1000 , 7 years for a man who obtained 36,000 using fraudulent cheques , and 12 years for a Post Office employee who defrauded his employer of 136,000 ( Guardian 29.8.90 ) . |
| 14 | Passages will be dictated at 70 , 80 , 90 and 100 wpm for a period of 3 minutes . |
| 15 | Age Concern believes that the basic state pension should be equal to one third average earnings for a single pension and one half for a couple . |
| 16 | But then when he said two hundred and one pounds for a pension mortgage I thought well if a hundred and ninety |
| 17 | In 1207 the ‘ barons , knights , free tenants and all the men of the rape of Hastings ’ agreed to pay 60 marks and one palfrey for a grant ‘ that they and their heirs should be quit in perpetuity of suits , summonses and pleas of the forest ’ . |
| 18 | Passages will be dictated at 50 and 60 wpm for a period of 3 minutes . |
| 19 | In 1906 life expectancy at birth for a male in Britain was 48 years and 51 years for a female ; in 1985 the average expectation of life at birth was 71 and 77 years respectively ( see Figure 3.3 ) . |
| 20 | Yeah , well she was going on about bringing lots of money into the college but she might have to pay two hundred and twenty quid for a barn dance band if she 's not careful . |
| 21 | He used a 3-wood , an 8-iron and two putts for a par 4 at the 1st . |
| 22 | Sun Tzu is right : leave but one avenue for a man to escape by and his determination to fight to the death will be totally undermined . |
| 23 | perhaps reduce it , if you put a fiver a brick loads of people will probably take 'em up on it , business might , but twenty pounds for a brick |