Example sentences of "[noun pl] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small investors will pay less than institutions for the first instalment though how much less will not be known until June 29 after the international offer closes . |
| 2 | Small investors will pay less than institutions for the first instalment , although how much less will not be known until June 29 after the international offer closes . |
| 3 | They arrange crews , sailing one per three beginners for the first week ; for the second week they coach on request . |
| 4 | By mid-1966 unemployment in Germany exceeded vacancies for the first time since 1959 . |
| 5 | The bitterness and the troubles of the coal mines for the next seven , or for that matter twenty-seven years , derived in great part from the feeling of both miners and owners that they had been betrayed . |
| 6 | All that we have available is the notes for the first part of the introduction , written , presumably , in the spring , and consisting of a highly condensed discussion of Greek tragedy and its development . |
| 7 | For example , it was pointed out to me that some teachers were making lesson notes for the first time in years ! |
| 8 | Do not lose interest and let the end of a sentence fade away as you scan your notes for the next remark . |
| 9 | MacRae dismissed his case notes for the third stage as ‘ rubbish ’ . |
| 10 | Absolutely anything is preferable to sitting down to read through your auditing notes for the umpteenth time . |
| 11 | Earlier , as the government and ANC took steps at the weekend to prepare for South Africa 's first all-race elections , President FW de Klerk gave cabinet posts to non-whites for the first time in South Africa 's history and got rid of white ministers said to be reluctant to back his sweeping apartheid reforms . |
| 12 | The Relieving Officer for East Greenwich , however , favoured giving relief to widows for the first few weeks after their husband 's death , but after that he believed some of the children should be taken into the workhouse , because he considered that an able-bodied widow should work . |
| 13 | While they are carefully listed , there is not enough to get their flavour Franklin lived many lives : that of scientist investigating electrical phenomena for the first time , lobbyist for the new born United States in London , and gun runner for the infant |
| 14 | The accounts for the first year indicated quite clearly the recognition of the social divisions which existed at the time . |
| 15 | The number of boys fluctuated around 100 , but the School at last seemed to have become viable , a credit balance appearing in the accounts for the first time . |
| 16 | The General Post Office appears in the accounts for the first time . |
| 17 | Sir Peter Holmes , Shell 's chairman who admitted that he was ‘ astonished ’ to discover that the irregularities had occurred through an associate company failing to follow strict rules against speculative dealing , said that he expected any further exposure to be limited to a £65 million charge which the company would take in its accounts for the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 18 | You mentioned the accounts of the Maxwell Charitable Trust as having five hundred thousand of assets , I saw those accounts for the first time the other day and I found that they had five hundred and one thousand of assets of which er five hundred thousand consisted of a a purely hypothetical transfer of an asset from a Liechtenstein trust to the U K trust and that asset had no valuation done on it as far as I can make out a and no reference to any valuation appeared in the accounts , so we actually had B I M apparently owned by a charitable trust on the face of it with figures of five hundred and one thousand of assets , but in practical accounting terms and valuation terms , no evidence that those five hundred and one thousand pounds er of assets had any valuation approaching that figure . |
| 19 | If you wish to self-certify your earnings , you will have to supply accounts for the last year . |
| 20 | I retire to the toilets for the third time in the space of ten minutes . |
| 21 | I am afraid I could only manage part of the meal and I cut out the second and third courses completely , and only had gravy and vegetables for the third , but most people at my table went right through the menu ! |
| 22 | She gave an excellent and innovative lecture on ‘ Skills for the 21st Century ’ which stimulated a highly participative discussion following her presentation . |
| 23 | Then , on 20 June , the Germans for the first time employed a new type of diphosgene gas shell . |
| 24 | CHILD star Macauley Culkin 's Home Alone 2 : Lost In New York has topped US box office takings for the third week in a row , earning Pounds 8 million . |
| 25 | The development of Labour Government policies for the Second Pillar — the maintenance of a favourable balance of power in Europe — was a happier story in that British and American interests coincided . |
| 26 | The COPEI and the MAS on Feb. 24 declined Pérez 's request to the secretaries-general of all main opposition parties to join a " political cabinet " of ministers without portfolio to draft policies for the next two years of government . |
| 27 | The offence is in outline very similar to the pre-existing offence under the Public Order Act 1936 , section 5A , although it adds ‘ behaviour ’ to the list of proscribed activities for the first time . |
| 28 | Some of these activities related to institutional developments ( for example , on diversification ) , others to new ways of approaching familiar ground ( for example , on school experience ) , others to new approaches to the packaging of knowledge and its applications ( for example , a conference on communication studies held in 1978 ) , others to the representation of existing activities for the first time in higher education ( for example , in the creative and performing arts ) , and yet others on the mechanics of the CNAA 's own work in validating courses and seeking to assure standards ( for example , a conference on the role of external examiners held in October 1978 ) . |
| 29 | The Museum is a registered Charity with no public funding and Mick Miller , Finance Trustee , said : ‘ This sponsorship is a very generous gesture and we are delighted that this has come from an enterprising local company which has pledged support for our activities for the next three years . ’ |
| 30 | The first meeting will be an opportunity for those interested in teacher research to meet , to formally establish the group and create a programme of activities for the next year . |