Example sentences of "[verb] for a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conversion of fractions to decimals is a requirement for effective use of the calculator , and a further calculator question about the wages received for a 37½ hour week produced evidence that a number of pupils worked out the wages for a 37 hour week using the calculator and then made , or tried to make , a pencil and paper calculation for the remaining half hour 's money . |
| 2 | Well , we 're getting them to go for a hundred , which sounds a lot , but the ground 's quite variable so , you know , some of it is really good planting land and some of it is n't , so , you know , it 'll be up to the teams to go for as many as they can . |
| 3 | Christopher swiftly arranged for a six foot wall to be built along his boundary , and angrily muttered that it was going to have to be the Scottish islands . |
| 4 | My support for Leeds is just as great as my hatred of the scum , so I for one will be rooting for a 1 nil defeat on saturday , with Leeds hopefully going on to do well in the FA cup . |
| 5 | It rubs hoarding space with Howard Hodgkin , whose paintings sell for a million pounds and more . |
| 6 | The duke president of Youth Clubs UK , catering for a million young people said the scheme was long overdue . |
| 7 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
| 8 | Net , adjusted for a three-for-two stock split paid in December 1992 , per share fell 89.7% to $0.03 . |
| 9 | Net earnings per share , adjusted for a three-for-two stock split paid in August 1992 , rose by 12.3% to $0.91 in the quarter , and by 14.4% to $3.58 in the year . |
| 10 | Net per share , adjusted for a three-for-two stock split paid in February 1993 , was $0.43 . |
| 11 | Net per share , adjusted for a three-for-two stock split last time paid in May 1992 , rose by 16.7% to $0.28 . |
| 12 | Net per share , adjusted for a three-for-two stock split paid in April 1993 , remained at $0.20 . |
| 13 | Net earnings per share , adjusted for a three-for-two stock split paid in July 1992 , fell by 58.3% to $0.05 in the quarter , and by 70% to $0.51 in the year . |
| 14 | Net earnings per share , adjusted for a one-for-ten consolidation on February 26 rose 117.6% to $0.37 in the year . |
| 15 | Net earnings per share , adjusted for a three-for-one stock split paid in February 1992 , rose by 38.5% to $0.18 in the quarter , and by 19.1% to $0.56 in the year . |
| 16 | Net earnings per share , adjusted for a five-for-four stock split paid in November 1992 , rose 3.7% to $0.28 in the quarter , and 9.1% to $0.84 in the nine months . |
| 17 | Net per share , adjusted for a five-for-four stock split paid in June 1992 , and rose 6.3% to $0.17 . |
| 18 | Although the syntactic filter could no doubt be improved , it probably could not compensate for a 20,000 word lexicon and/or poorer acoustic-phonetic discrimination . |
| 19 | According to American projections , these actions will compensate for a 15 per cent increase in emissions of carbon . |
| 20 | If you get a correlation of about point seven , it means that you 're only accounting for forty nine percent , less than half , of the variants in the other var the other sets of scores Think about it , if it 's a positive , if you 've got a correlation coefficient of one , what it means is that you account for a hundred perc or or sorry , if you 're gon na make convert it to a percentage , you times it by a hundred , it 's the proportion there . |
| 21 | Then Swindon asked for a million pounds , Chelsea offered nothing , and Hoddle was valued at a maximum of 175 thousand pounds . |
| 22 | Simon Lawler , prosecuting asked for a 14 day adjournment so that the charges against the two officers could be finalised . |
| 23 | Wasps , defending the only unblemished record in Division One , lacked their usual buzz , but had former England international Huw Davies 's try to thank for a 10–6 win over spirited London Scottish . |
| 24 | The Commission had pressed for a 35 per cent reduction , while the latest compromise proposal by the Portuguese government ( which held the presidency of the EC Council of Ministers for the first half of 1992 ) argued for a reduction of 27 per cent . |
| 25 | Although the Guaranteed Capital Bond is designed for a five year term , early encashment is allowed before the end of the fixed term . |
| 26 | Envisaging a 4 per cent real growth in 1990 , it provided for a 10 per cent reduction in public expenditure , a wage increase for public employees , and the establishment of shops to sell basic items at low cost . |
| 27 | It provided for a 3.1 per cent increase in overall spending , to a total of F1,330,360 million , against a predicted inflation rate of 2.8 per cent ( US$1.00=F5.6999 as at Sept. 16 , 1991 ) . |
| 28 | The law also provided for a 24 nautical mile " adjacent area " in which the Taiwan government could take precautions against any intrusion . |
| 29 | First and foremost erm there is an assessment of those officers by their immediate supervisors and er a then ensues whereby er suitable officers are s selected to come for a two day assessment at er police headquarters . |
| 30 | Smith drew for a 4 at the first . |