Example sentences of "for [art] [num ord] [num] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brunel would have nothing steeper than 1 in 660 for the first eighty-five miles out of Paddington ; Robert Stephenson planned the London and Birmingham Railway with no gradient steeper than 1 in 330 ( except the first rise from Euston to Camden ) ; and Locke nothing steeper than 1 in 250 on the difficult London and Southampton line . |
| 2 | For the first 14 hours post-operatively the foot of the bed is elevated to 45 to aid venous return . |
| 3 | It 's erm I 've got I mean I 've got a job for the first six weeks already set up with |
| 4 | The term was for 26 years paying a one-twelfth to the Lord , save for the first six months when no claim would be made . |
| 5 | The causes of this are not entirely clear , but were probably a combination of the increasing costs of warfare ( as the empire came under severe pressure from the barbarians across the Rhine and Danube , and from the Persians in the east ) and of the exhaustion of the Roman mines in Spain , which seem for the first two centuries AD to have provided an important contribution to the difference between Rome 's income ( taxes ) and expenditure ( especially on war ) . |
| 6 | Ian ( 4.11 ) filled in evenly in rows from the top , using all yellow pegs for the first two rows then haphazardly using the remaining colours for the rest of the rows . |
| 7 | This meant it was available for the first two years only in London and the South-East and to people who bothered to fit a new aerial . |
| 8 | The charter provides evidence of a surprisingly well-worked-out system to ensure castle-guard of the town : in April , May , June , July and August , it was the count 's responsibility , though he paid only for the first two months directly out of his own treasury ; , the inhabitants of the town produced a tax for the following three . |
| 9 | The A&R depts that we dealt with when last I was in a band ( about 18 months ago ) all seemed to consist of young men in Armani suits and long raincoats , who only stayed for the first four numbers then left . |
| 10 | In the immediate neighbourhood of The Milebrook were few families except for the local farmers , and for the first four years there we had no transport other than bicycles and a pony cart . |
| 11 | The thriving Teesside club also finished third in a special challenge award for the first 12 men home , underlining their strength-in-depth . |
| 12 | If a child has it for the first ten years hardly anything else matters . |
| 13 | Colonel John Wilson has given the club immense service , having been President for the last 10 years immediately following 23 years as Match Secretary . |
| 14 | ‘ I was thinking about coming on for the last five minutes when we were 2-0 down , to get a bit of glory , but the legs would n't let me , ’ he joked . |
| 15 | One of the contexts in which we are exercising ministry is that we have for the last fifty years well I have n't personally ! |
| 16 | Michael Sibele had known for the last two days why the gang of workmen was busy outside the main gates : repairing a burst mains pipe . |
| 17 | times of I mean , I actually think it 's a an awful lot of ask of a friendship , or of a family situation and also , indeed , if you I mean I think sometimes they can be very supportive but th the true understanding may not be there and erm I think that 's what led me to start up a self- help group in Edinburgh erm which is , has been erm running for the last two years now . |
| 18 | Mr McQuaker said he had just left work at the Haughton Road service station at 9pm as he had done for the last 25 years when the youths pounced . |
| 19 | But time and expense means I have to economise and therefore I choose to bait every other day except for the last three days when I will bait on each of them . |
| 20 | That 's where we 've been for the last twenty years so erm this company er that was already doing it and we bought it into the er into the fold . |
| 21 | For the next eight months only 13 drinks a day were sold — compared to 600 million bottles a day now . |
| 22 | In the meantime , specific cost-cutting exercises need to be considered to bring the cost for the next six months down to about £9,000 . |
| 23 | For the next six weeks around 20 ten and eleven-year-olds at Linthorpe junior school will have the ball at their feet , courtesy of Middlesbrough council 's football development officer Jim Wattis . |
| 24 | Our connection for the prison camp did not leave until 11 o'clock and the Feldwebel was wondering what to do for the next two hours when the air raid siren blew . |
| 25 | For the next 90 minutes there followed an exemplary lecture on most aspects of Chinese life , given by a master scholar and showman . |
| 26 | But er , we were not successful in putting up an er and er to have a member of Wales elected on this occasion to serve for the next seven years unfortunately ! |
| 27 | For the next three years little more than £1,000 was sent to Bordeaux for the defence of the duchy , and Edward concentrated his attention on Brittany . |
| 28 | You 've got a captive audience there why the hell do n't you do it a sheet why do n't you give them a programme for the next three months exactly what is happening . |