Example sentences of "[verb] for [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had to wait for all three of them to finish before getting it back . |
| 2 | something else that could be quite actually misleading might sleep , be very sleepy , difficult to wake , so if you 've got the baby and you think your baby 's due for a feed and it did n't take very much at the last feed , you ca n't wake it up you should n't think oh well I 'll have to wait for another four hours , beginning to get worried so if the baby 's difficult to wake if it 's difficult to feed not sucking very well if the baby 's cold to touch and then there 's something which is very , very misleading , these babies can have bright red cheeks and bright red hands and feet and if you look at them you think oh they must be warm because they 're red |
| 3 | The theatre has still to fill the post of artistic director — indeed interviews have not yet begun — and Mr McKeown suggested the position might this time be taken by more than one person , and remain filled for some four or five years . |
| 4 | As the BR main line to Birmingham is near Kidderminster Town Station , this was too stopped for some three hours , causing further major disruption . |
| 5 | Government policy does not explain why the organized networks only covered certain areas , or why the illicit trade declined in Kurunagala at the end of the nineteenth century , but continued to thrive for another fifteen years in the Low Country before suffering a similar decline . |
| 6 | This year they 're going to go for four thousand . |
| 7 | Faced with four alternative approaches to valuation — whether it should be based on capital values , rental values , maintenance costs or rebuilding costs — its choice was not to go for one of them , or even a mixture of two of them , but to go for all four of them . |
| 8 | Yeah we were and I did n't know how to go for this fifty one on the . |
| 9 | But even allowing for those one strong young man could have come up the stairs to Wolski 's room and in a few minutes and one journey have stripped that soulless place of all evidence that for almost three decades , since 1946 , Wolski had lived there . |
| 10 | ‘ He found , after allowing for some 37 factors not related to lead , ’ says Price , ‘ that those children having high lead levels in their teeth did significantly less well in tests than did those with low levels . ’ |
| 11 | Whitehall officials are putting their usual brave face on the prospect that , against British objections , a version of the Social Charter will be agreed and an inter-governmental conference arranged for late 1990 or early 1991 to consider amending the Treaty of Rome in the direction of a single central bank and currency . |
| 12 | And finally , not on the green sheet , I will tell you , to put you all out of your misery , that tea has been arranged for six thirty . |
| 13 | Vogel had negotiated the release of over 34,000 prisoners whose freedom was bought by West Germany , had arranged for some 250,000 people to leave East Germany and had also arranged spy swaps . |
| 14 | Thirty five , but there again what do you want for thirty five ? |
| 15 | A thank you letter received from St. Clare 's Hospice for a cheque given for two hundred and eighty pounds . |
| 16 | Since the individual estimates within specific tables are subject to errors varying in degree , the estimates given for any one season should be treated with reserve . |
| 17 | yeah , I mean for twenty thousand what could you have ? , you could have a Calibre could n't ya for twenty thousand |
| 18 | The Colne Valley Divisional Labour Party was formed in June 1917 , the Leeds City Labour Party reorganized itself in April and May 1918 , and promoted the formation of constituency parties in the six divisions which made up Leeds , while constituency parties were formed for all four of the Bradford seats in April 1919 . |
| 19 | RAF Uxbridge is the current holder of the Jolliffe Trophy , which is awarded to the unit that is judged to provide the best standard of catering for all three messes . |
| 20 | The CCG team started work on the Channel Tunnel site in September 1987 and have built up until they are now catering for some 6,000 workers at two locations — Upper and Lower Shakespeare Cliff . |
| 21 | In the United Kingdom in 1988 , there were 1298 publicly maintained nursery schools catering for some 98,000 children , 82% of them on a part-time basis . |
| 22 | This paper describes an essay in implementing logical objects within a hypertext system , with the dual aims of building on the experience of document processing systems , but catering for these six differences . |
| 23 | The publication details major financial losses and fatalities caused by minor events and provides a prescription for reducing these losses , which account for many millions of working days lost each year . |
| 24 | Detailed profit and loss account for last three years |
| 25 | Major constituents account for ninety nine point nine percent of the material dissolved . |
| 26 | Market loans account for some 26 per cent of banks ' sterling assets and are thus a major source of liquidity to individual banks . |
| 27 | Investigation revealed the sale of at least 63 works in the past six months ; yesterday a source close to Charles Saatchi was prepared to concede that the volume of sales was higher than previously stated , and that the works disposed of account for some 10 to 12 per cent of the collection , which suggests a true figure of between 70 and 100 individual sales . |
| 28 | Patients with suspected iron deficiency anaemia account for some four per cent of the patients referred to our gastroenterology clinic . |
| 29 | The figures suggest that some 1200 excess cases of leukaemia may have been caused in Britain by the Windscale accident , since leukaemia deaths account for some 15 per cent of cancers attributable to nuclear accidents , the total toll of cancer deaths suggested is 8000 . |
| 30 | Stir in the monkfish cubes and simmer for another 5 minutes or until fish is just done . |