Example sentences of "[num] for the [adj] [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would I be fit to cover World War Three for the Daily Post if it broke out right now ? ’ |
| 2 | Fowler and Broad then got off to a good start with 90 for the first wicket before things began to go wrong . |
| 3 | Oil exports were resumed on June 11 for the first time since the outbreak of the Gulf war [ see pp. 37934-43 ] . |
| 4 | Multiparty elections to a 23-member constituent commission were held on July 23-26 for the first time since the 1977 coup , when Sir James Mancham was overthrown by France-Albert René [ see pp. 28485-86 ] . |
| 5 | Savimbi returned to Luanda on Sept. 27 for the first time since the start of the 16-year civil war . |
| 6 | The most tangible signs of this tendency to borrow more are highlighted in the Central Statistical Office 's Social Trends 1989 , which showed that household expenditure exceeded income in 1986 and 1987 for the first time since compilation of the information began . |
| 7 | The most tangible signs of this tendency to borrow more are highlighted in the Central Statistical Office 's Social Trends 1989 , which showed that household expenditure exceeded income in 1986 and 1987 for the first time since compilation of the information began . |
| 8 | With the prospects of breaking the stalemate fading , hopes rose following the announcement that the government and ANC representatives had held talks on July 28 for the first time since the ANC broke off contact on June 23 . |
| 9 | It was formed in 1939 for the same purpose as the NL , to amalgamate and strengthen various extreme right-wing and pro-fascist movements . |
| 10 | UNEMPLOYMENT is poised to top three million for the second time because the quality of jobs created in the late 1980s was poor , according to a report by the Employment Policy Institute . |
| 11 | While in 1965 at the Spencer Churchill sale top examples were changing hands for around £600 , and in the 1970s in the low thousands , the prices at the Castle Ashby sale shot up into the hundred thousands for the first time as new collectors , both Greek and American , competed against each other . |
| 12 | Latham and Andrew Jones put on 127 for the second wicket before the opener was run out when his partner failed to respond to a call for a run . |