Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [verb] [verb] for the " in BNC.

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1 By July 30 , 12 candidates had registered for the presidential elections due to be held simultaneously with legislative elections on September 29-30 .
2 Linfield 's board , alarmed by the adverse publicity , released an unprecedented statement outlining their position and policy , and revealing that over 70 Catholics had played for the club in the past .
3 In Australia , in Melbourne Park , a hundred thousand people sat waiting for the Victorian Football League Cup Final , and while they waited the 100 metres was to be relayed on the stadium scoreboard from Seoul .
4 She was told that more than 3,000 people had applied for the jobs .
5 On April 6 Austria had called for the creation of a UN buffer zone to protect Kurds in northern Iraq .
6 Another rally on Feb. 23 provoked violence against the police as about 10,000 people rallied to call for the return of the Soviet Union as a unified state .
7 I could perhaps put at least part of it in very homely erm and perhaps somewhat banal terms by saying that five minutes spent waiting for the person one loves may seem like five hours , whereas five hours spent with that person may appear a mere five minutes .
8 Annie Get Your Gun , opening on November 25 , has sold 25,000 tickets , and 80,000 seats have gone for the revival of Barnum , which opens on December 17 with Paul Nicholas in the starring role .
9 In the same circumstances the shooting man would move on to the next burrow with his remaining ferrets while keeping one eye open to watch for the emergence to the surface of any of the muzzled ferrets he had left behind .
10 Only one partner needs to apply for the rebate which will be divided equally .
11 But all eyes will be on the opening event on the morning of Sunday , June 20 , when over 200 entrants have applied for the Mountain Time Trial over one lap of the TT course against the watch .
12 We understand that the two councils hope to apply for the necessary Order on the 28th of May .
13 Students gaining both a written and oral component within 24 months qualify to register for the Group Award in English for the Tourism Industry ( EFTI ) .
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