Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean for one production you may need a wig another production you wo n't . |
| 2 | Depending how quick they actually okay them erm I mean for two years , three years now they they 've just gone straight through with no queries at all . |
| 3 | I mean for thirty years we feel like brothers and sisters with them , and it is unfortunate that Saddam Hussein has turned it all now against everybody . |
| 4 | Well I was gon na ask you if you knew any girls , I mean for seven pound fifty you ca n't go wrong , you ca n't even get that in town with a hat |
| 5 | yeah , I mean for twenty thousand what could you have ? , you could have a Calibre could n't ya for twenty thousand |
| 6 | It is difficult to come to terms with the fact that I mean it 's people that you 've worked with for a week , at a time and I mean for three and a half years every second week you 're working with that guys in a confined space , you get to know them really well . |
| 7 | I intend for fifteen twenty minutes or so , not to get into the issues of policy because you 've all got your own particular interests in that particular field and maybe that will come out during the course of the question and answer session . |
| 8 | One as I say for seventy crackers . |
| 9 | But like I say for seven years he just sat and did n't want to do nothing . |
| 10 | I wait for fifteen minutes . |
| 11 | I think I read for two hours , but it seemed like ten minutes . |
| 12 | It seems to be looking straight at me , its knuckled legs poised , tense , waiting I know for one false move from me to trigger it into an electrifying spring … straight at me . |
| 13 | I resist for two good reasons — a ) they do n't suit me , and b ) I 'm the wrong age for them . |
| 14 | I have now returned to live in London where I teach for two days a week at the Royal Academy Schools ’ . |
| 15 | I 'm a fool if I believe for one minute that he 'll give me a fair chance … |
| 16 | ‘ I ask for two reasons . |
| 17 | So I go for 2–0 with Deane and Wallace getting the prizes ! |
| 18 | And that really is the reason I think for one of the reasons for P P G seven being brought out . |
| 19 | And the highest is somewhere around seven hundred and fifty I think for one deal . |
| 20 | and I think for four hundred and eighty quid I could get a very nice real computer . |
| 21 | Sir we 've only had this for I think for three minutes before the start of the erm of of this erm session , I 'm just wondering if we could have ten minutes to read it ? |
| 22 | And although the City Council has managed over the years to old council house rents down , I think for three years there was absolutely no rent increase and then only about a nine per cent increase , although we 've managed to hold council house rents down until |
| 23 | Older people are more expensive for the state to care for — not only are they eligible for state pensions , which account for 13 per cent of public expenditure in Britain and 22 per cent of the federal budget in the United States , they are also the most costly group for public health services since they are likely to require expensive operations and long stays in hospital . |
| 24 | Scott Cairns , promoted from within to fill the role vacated by Mr Milne , aims to lift Scottish investment from 63 p.c. to 70 p.c. , and increase the retail content at the expense of offices , which account for 55 p.c . |
| 25 | Doctors will be able to use the kit for regular screening for lung and gastric cancers , which account for 70 per cent of cancers treated in the western world . |
| 26 | The new parent wants to concentrate on rail traction vehicles for railways , industry and mining , which account for 90 per cent of LEW 's sales . |
| 27 | The position is less clear in the case of the 3,000 miles of inter-urban routes , which account for 60 per cent of Regional Railways ' track . |
| 28 | And the figures would have been higher still , but for a smaller rise in car offences which account for three quarters of all reported crimes . |
| 29 | –here property has been settled on terms which provide for one or more beneficiaries to become entitled to an interest in possession in it on or before a specified age which does not exceed twenty-five but meantime no such interest in possession subsists and the income so far as not applied for maintenance education or benefit of any beneficiary is to be accumulated , neither a payment made out of the property nor the arising to a beneficiary of an interest in possession in it is to be treated as a chargeable transfer . |
| 30 | In addition Gary Nesbitt , who was the non-executive deputy chairman , and Michael Isaacs , who was the development director , have agreed to a non-competition agreement , which last for two years in Mr Nesbitt 's case and 18 months in Mr Isaacs ' . |