Example sentences of "[noun pl] for a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Managers say that prudent lending and a close knowledge of local people are the reasons for a 34 per cent leap in net profits . |
| 2 | Call for new inquiry into plane disaster : Marc Champion in Washington explains why some investigators suspect the US and Canadian governments hushed up the reasons for a 1985 plane crash |
| 3 | Other road building plans and in the , in the South East , well in August the Department of Transport er published plans for a five hundred and eighty million pound new road linking Heathrow with the A three . |
| 4 | An opposing faction favoured a ‘ digger commune ’ and resisted plans for a 1 rent , and the presence of London 's somewhat tame Hell 's Angels as a ‘ security force ’ . |
| 5 | Knighton met residents living near 19-acre Brunton Park after unveiling plans for a 30,000 all-seater stadium , hotel , multiplex cinema , restaurant and tropical plant and butterfly kingdom . |
| 6 | Campbell faced more legal problems when he exposed plans for a seventy million pound spy satellite caled Zircon . |
| 7 | Then Pearce developments launched a scheme to revitalise the docks , with plans for a hundred new shops , 2 pubs , 6 cafe 's and restaurants . |
| 8 | Mr Parkinson recently signalled ministerial concern by blocking BR 's plans for a 14 per cent fare rise in February . |
| 9 | About to join a battle royal with Britain and Germany over his ambitious plans for a 30 per cent increase in the EC budget , the last thing Mr Delors wanted was more tales of bogus food exports . |
| 10 | In contrast with the opposition 's plans for a 15 per cent " consumption tax " , there would also be personal tax cuts , giving three-quarters of taxpayers a top tax rate of 30 per cent , totalling A$3,400 million in 1994-95 and A$5,200 million in 1995-96 . |
| 11 | Starting at 6 am , the field of almost 200 athletes began with 2.4 mile swim in the River Severn , jumped onto racing bikes for a 112 mile loop around Shropshire , and finished with a full 26 mile marathon along the banks of the Severn . |
| 12 | The MEPs want to do away with the Commission 's proposals for a three month contracting-out period during which the provisions in the directive would not be applied . |
| 13 | Hopes of the Economy Minister , Domingo Cavallo , for quick progress in talks begun in January over the Argentina 's foreign debt received a setback in mid-February when creditor banks rejected his requests for a 40 per cent cut in the country 's US$31,000 million commercial bank debt , under the terms of the 1989 Brady debt reduction plan [ see pp. 36541-42 ] . |
| 14 | True , with a firm the size of Stevenson 's , working on up to fifty contracts for a dozen or so companies , there could never be so dead a reckoning that the final moment could be named with certainty . |
| 15 | You can make a private deal with insurance companies to insure your legs for a million pounds if they are your sole way of earning a living ! |
| 16 | Among its tortuous water-courses , its hidden back-glens and caves and dark deformed woods choked with fallen trees knee-deep in moss , there might be refuges for a hundred listed men , if the worst happened . |
| 17 | The Scots finished ahead on all six rinks for a 134-96 win over Wales while England beat Ireland 157-95 . |
| 18 | Oil and petroleum workers threatened industrial action in support of demands for a 310 per cent salary adjustment , for an end to plans to privatize the state oil company PETROBRAS , and the reinstatement of 800 colleagues dismissed in government cutbacks . |
| 19 | IG Metall had opened region-by-region negotiations in this sector on March 4 but employers rejected demands for a 9.5 per cent increase , offering instead 3.3 per cent . |
| 20 | The ANC and its allies modified earlier demands for a two-thirds majority , proposing a 70 per cent majority for most decisions but conceding a higher majority , of 75 per cent , for a bill of rights . |
| 21 | The commission failed to support French demands for a 30 per cent higher minimum prices for imported fish . |
| 22 | The most serious industrial disruption was a strike by 1,700 miners in Morocco 's largest coalfield at Jerada , 450 km east of Rabat , which began in mid-December 1988 with demands for a 20 per cent wage increase . |
| 23 | The ordinary least squares focused model is pop 81 = 9.89 dense + 5.03 resid whereas specification of Poisson errors gives pop 81 = 10.93 dense + 4.82 resid Note that the estimated population densities for a 30 m square pixel for the two types of residential housing identified using the Landsat data seem reasonable and that this model can not produce negative population estimates . |
| 24 | There were no significant differences in the glucose thresholds for a two point increase in symptom scores ( table I ) . |
| 25 | The man who so impressed Jack Nicklaus in last year 's Open struck a four iron to eight feet for a two at the next and added three more birdies . |
| 26 | Charles shuffled through his pockets for a two p piece and went down to the phone . |
| 27 | Impromptu suppers for a dozen friends ? |
| 28 | There 's the stirring up-ya-boya numbers like ‘ Pied Piper ’ and ‘ Never Mind The Stranglers ’ , closing-time anthems for a thousand pubs over the coming months . |
| 29 | There 's a nursery as well with places for a hundred children aged between one and eight.The smallest children are taken off their mothers hands while they 're out at work and given a meal each day . |
| 30 | Costs for a five and a half-day week are therefore £37,125 or £1,930,500 per year . |