Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For eleven men there was one latrine bucket . |
| 2 | You also told me that for eleven years you were national coach and team manager to the United Arab Emirates . |
| 3 | Well considering nothing 's been done for fifty year I suppose really |
| 4 | When Edward invited Harry to Oxford for Eights Week he informed him of his expectations from Lincoln College . |
| 5 | Livermore said : ‘ For 70 minutes he showed tremendous enthusiasm . |
| 6 | On Sept. 6 President Bush called on the US Congress , which had reconvened on Sept. 2 , to delay for 120 days its approval of fresh loan guarantees to Israel , on the grounds that their approval would harm prospects for a peace conference . |
| 7 | For eight minutes she struggled unsuccessfully , changing her posture , hammer grip and the position of the nut , while Ricci rested nearby , apparently just keeping an absent-minded eye on her daughter . |
| 8 | And for eight hours she devoted herself to sufferers and staff — smiling , chatting and listening . |
| 9 | She said : ‘ On one day , the water ran dirty for eight hours it was impossible to drink , you could n't make tea and washing was filthy . |
| 10 | In its quarterly magazine ( Over the Hills , spring 1929 ) Lakeland Tours were advertised , centred around three camps equipped with bedding and cooking facilities for eight individuals who , it was hoped , would cater collectively . |
| 11 | As my vouchers are used up in about four months each year this means that for eight months I 'm out of pocket using our stores for the weekly shop . |
| 12 | It is obvious from his writings that Battuta was most impressed by what was to be for eight years his adopted city . |
| 13 | In August 1920 , almost by chance , he was attached for a year to the small peacetime signal intelligence organization in London , and was then posted to Simla in India , where for eight years he performed cipher-breaking duties with remarkable success . |
| 14 | For eight years I had revelled in the dual careers of journalism and broadcasting , between 1929 and 1937 , and these years coincided with the ‘ boom to bust ’ period , winding up with the deepest depression of the century . |
| 15 | For eight years I was a county councillor having won a seat from the Conservative Party . |
| 16 | Except for eight patients who had never been treated with antisecretory drugs at the time of the study , the remainder took part in a prospective follow up protocol with estimation of several parameters , at each visit ( every 6–12 months ) . |
| 17 | Her exhausted captain had had to hand over the wheel to Arthur and for eight days he was scarcely relieved . |
| 18 | The important debate in my opinion that we shall have this Committee stage and it is for that reason and also because for four-and-a-half years which I think is regarded as a very long time , I was answerable for police affairs er with the Home Secretary in another place , as the Noble Lord , Lord Callaghan will remember , many years ago , it goes back to January nineteen fifty-eight when I became Under Secretary and he was political advisor to the Police Federation and we very rarely disagreed I 'm happy to say . |
| 19 | For thirty-nine years he had devoted himself to the British public . |
| 20 | The YMCA announced it will start work early next year on a purpose-built home for 30 youngsters who are homeless in Darlington . |
| 21 | ‘ For 30 years we have asked for it to be culverted and we have been promised that it will be done . |
| 22 | ‘ For 30 years I always painted on the spot , even in deep snow . |
| 23 | YOUR LAST CHANCE TO FILL UP FOR 30 MILES it read . |
| 24 | A producer recently told me of a quote he was given to use a piece of music from the '60s — for 30 seconds it came to £40,000 ! |
| 25 | For 12 days we enjoyed pulses , rice , vegetables , fish and fruit ; we never felt hungry and every meal was a joy . |
| 26 | Bob Peckham has been juggling for 12 years he regularly entertains shoppers in Oxford city centre . |
| 27 | For 12 years he aided Tony Hart in making children 's television more entertaining . |
| 28 | Being with the band for 12 years you might think that Marlene would get fed up with their music . |
| 29 | As the search began in January 1989 for 12 people who had never watched his testimony to sit as a jury at North 's trial , one cartoonist imagined it would have to be composed of mujahedin from Afghanistan ; a satirist announced that the first two jurors selected were Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling , the pandas from Washington Zoo . |
| 30 | For 12 weeks they were the most famous ‘ ordinary ’ people in Britain , when the BBC decided to popularise the fly-on-the-wall documentary by discreetly invading the lives of the Wilkins and attendant boy/girlfriends and a key dustman from mum Margaret 's past . |