Example sentences of "[noun prp] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1992–93 will be remembered as a good year for the University of Stirling for many reasons . |
| 2 | A memorial service is to be held in Swindon for five youngsters who died when a car ploughed into them . |
| 3 | Jim has been a newspaper seller in Swindon for 25 years and now for the first time in his life , he 's made the front page . |
| 4 | Vito Mazzotta has lived in Swindon for 40 years . |
| 5 | Sarah Hunt , 74 , of Weardale Drive , Woodhouse Close , Bishop Auckland , clung hold of her sister Joan Whalen for 25 minutes after neighbours alerted the ambulance service that Mrs Whalen had plunged from the window of her house . |
| 6 | Q : So you stayed happily married to Bernard for fifteen years ? |
| 7 | She flew up to Nashville for two weeks ' work and called Dennis from her hotel room exactly eight days after their wedding . |
| 8 | More generally , governments in Japan , the US , and Europe have promoted and lavishly funded a number of large-scale pre-competitive research consortia ( such as the VSLI consortium , SEMATECH , MCC , ESPRIT , and others ) , and antitrust law and practice in both the US and Europe have become noticeably more lenient with the passage of the National Co-operative Research Act in 1984 and the announcement of the block exemption from Article 85 in the EEC for certain categories of R&D agreements in 1985 . |
| 9 | The English LEAs spending the most on transport were Norfolk for primary children ( 30 ) and Cornwall for secondary ( 103 ) . |
| 10 | They , like us , were shifty-eyed ; there had been no rain in Botswana for four years and the lions of the Kalahari were getting hungry . |
| 11 | Having councilled with the Nez Perce for two years , in July 1818 , he re-established a fort in their name in the region of the Cayuse and Walla Walla Indians . |
| 12 | Home of the Duncombes for 300 years ; 60 years a school ; now restored to superb family home . |
| 13 | Maybe the specific association behind each of these works , generally commissioned from Arnold for particular events or celebrations , has got in the way of their wider circulation . |
| 14 | In 1985 the Welsh Office agreed to fund a Special Needs Liaison Officer for Wales PPA for three years to support the referral schemes in the counties . |
| 15 | Britain by then had been at war with Germany for two years , but the Soviet Union was only drawn into the conflict in June by a sudden German invasion , whilst the US entered the war in December after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor . |
| 16 | My husband and I have lived in Germany for 16 years and we have two lovely children who were both born here . |
| 17 | Cos Pam 's son 's going to Germany for four years tomorrow . |
| 18 | Of the three Mölln victims two had lived in Germany for many years and the youngest had been born in Mölln . |
| 19 | If I can demonstrate that the Kaiser himself , the monarch who ruled Germany for thirty years until nineteen eighteen , had ideas very similar if not identical to those of Hitler 's , at a time when he was not in contact with Hitler , when Hitler 's party was nowhere in political terms , then I think that 's yet another very important indication that there is continuity in German history from say the Bismarckian period through to nineteen forty-five , and that Hitler stands in that national tradition , and is not some kind of lightning erm that , that struck Germany erm from a blue sky . |
| 20 | Soon afterwards , Brian , in the middle of his national Service , was sent to Germany for six months . |
| 21 | The 23-year-old is returning home to Bruhl in Germany for several days rest . |
| 22 | Traditionally we go to Germany for sevens tournaments . |
| 23 | Nor can it come from easier monetary policy because of the commitment to the existing exchange rate , combined with the fact that interest rates are being determined in Germany for German reasons . |
| 24 | In return he was promised his hereditary possessions of Luneburg and Brunswick , but ordered to leave Germany for three years , and so returned to England . |
| 25 | By November of that year Henry the Lion had been defeated and banished from Germany for three years . |
| 26 | Alan Capper said there were no other parties involved and Anneka , who has been married to the theatre producer Nick Allott for five years , hoped the separation will not be permanent . |
| 27 | The Mill was sited next to the Avon for good reasons . |
| 28 | Although the Somerset levels is one of the strongholds of the country 's 3,000 barn owls , the pair were believed to be the first to breed in Avon for six years . |
| 29 | In the summer of 1904 Alf returned to Roker Park for a club record fee of £520 ( a record which has since been eclipsed ) , but he only stayed at Sunderland for seven months . |
| 30 | Cusick himself remained the unsung creator of the Daleks for many years , picking up little recognition for his work . |