Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [noun pl] for " in BNC.

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1 He started afresh on this work which appeared privately in 1893 as Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press , Oxford .
2 Widespread criticism from across the political spectrum greeted President Fernando Collor de Mello 's announcement on Aug. 22 of proposals for 44 changes to the 1988 constitution , intended to allow for measures to increase federal revenues while simultaneously cutting public spending .
3 Full details of the results for the three months to 31st March 1993 with comparisons for the first quarter of 1992 are included in the Statistical Information attached to this press release .
4 If you 're rich/daft enough you can pay hundreds of pounds for a 1 metre pair of pure silver , hand-woven , dew-picked interconnects to join your three grand CD player to your ten grand amp !
5 You do not have to spend much money on these items for basic hacking and general enjoyment of your horse/pony but you could spend hundreds of pounds for the best .
6 Three employees slogged around the streets of the capital in the London Marathon , and raised hundreds of pounds for charity .
7 Members of engineering operations squadron at Leeming hope to raise hundreds of pounds for Gateway Clubs in Northallerton and Ripon .
8 I have seen hundreds of adverts for gravel cleaners and I recently decided to make my own .
9 In too many cases the draughtsman finds it quicker to design a new part than to search through hundreds of drawings for one that fits his task .
10 The communications infrastructure required by the student management system is also provided by the computer centre : all of the terminals and printers are in the same cross-campus network as the many hundreds of terminals for academic use ( in open access terminal rooms , staff offices , laboratories , etc . ) .
11 Hundreds of enthusiasts for the culture of the native American Indian have been attending a Pow-Wow .
12 Langbaurgh Council , which owns the Skippers lane land , gets hundreds of requests for units like these . ’
13 He was being sacrificed along with hundreds of others for the sake of an ideological principle .
14 Hendley claimed during the trial that her lover came up with hundreds of schemes for disposing of her husband .
15 But , as usual , the list also pays tribute to hundreds of individuals for their contributions to politics , the Civil Service and the armed forces .
16 There are hundreds of places for mooring boats on the Thames — and this boat may have needed only a temporary mooring .
17 The presence of hundreds of journalists for the game ensured the kind of publicity that Miami preferred not to have .
18 The building and operating of the new telecommunications infrastructure is expected to create hundreds of jobs for the area .
19 And also state that over the years er your father used to run the business done hundreds of jobs for Avon Insurance at , and er also you yourself have done jobs for Avon Insurance before who have never ever had any trouble whatever so ever !
20 Shadowlands stars Sir Anthony Hopkins , who was joined by hundreds of extras for a scene recreating university life in the 1950's .
21 We have played in this country for both Lancashire and Surrey county cricket clubs and have bowled hundreds of overs for both counties .
22 As described in the previous section , this may have resulted from a decrease in the number of elderly people using buses following the introduction in September 1991 of fares for concessionary travel .
23 These cells were then incubated with coded patient 's serum , diluted 1:10 in TBS for 30 minutes .
24 On the other side of the square is a fine Art Deco block , built in 1921 as homes for schoolteachers by O. Novotný .
25 Baker 's dozen of plates for 12 great chefs
26 Number three in charts for the last million million years Michael .
27 We take two-and-a-half to three-year-olds for one morning a week and three to five-year-olds for the other four mornings .
28 Eden , naturally , took Churchill 's place at the head of the Defence Committee , and the list of ad hoc committees he chaired reflects both his appetites and the intrinsic importance of their subject matter : GEN 502 on the supply of military aircraft ; GEN 503 on security in Cyprus ; GEN 506 on preparations for the meeting of foreign ministers of France , the UK , USSR and USA in Geneva in October 1955 ; and GEN 511 on a third Indian steel plant .
29 He may have been the author of a memorandum written between 1289 and 1307 concerning plans for a new crusade .
30 An inquiry was held into the working of the 1969 Act and a White Paper , entitled simply Young Offenders ( Cmnd 8045 ) , was published in 1980 with proposals for ‘ strengthening the law relating to juvenile and young offenders in England and Wales ’ .
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