Example sentences of "[num] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oxford have dropped down into the bottom half of the table , after losing by 1-0 for the third match running . |
| 2 | Skipper Arjuna Ranatunga ( 76 ) and Hashan Tillakaratne ( 43 ) then steadied the ship , adding 92 for the fifth wicket . |
| 3 | Applied to problem P1 of Section 8.2 , it gives x 2 l = 7 , x 4 l = 1 , x 43 = 3 , x 45 = 1 and x 46 = 4 , which has a cost of 67 compared with 92 for the initial BFS given in that section . |
| 4 | The demand for places continued to grow : in 1952 there were 200 applicants for the 29 Senior places , 55 for the 10 in the Junior School ; in the following year 310 for 44 Senior places ( every so often , three forms were admitted instead of the usual two ) , 70 for the 10 Junior . |
| 5 | NICK FALDO was scotched on the rocks but toasted a scintillating 70 for the halfway lead in the £1.8 million Johnnie Walker World Championship here yesterday . |
| 6 | With this in mind , Botham chose to field first , only for Greenidge and Haynes to put on 168 for the first wicket . |
| 7 | Built in 1934 for the infamous 1936 Hitler Olympics , when the black hero of America , Jesse Owens , smashed the formidable sprint opposition of Germany , the stadium had withstood the Allied bombings during the war and became a symbol of a new Germany when Berlin was split in half by the Wall . |
| 8 | Six fifty for the top three then then down the scale to nine to twelve is four hundred and fifty . |
| 9 | Sheep entries set a new record , and topped 500 for the first time . |
| 10 | Without tailing his futures position , Roy must bear the additional cost of financing the payment of variation margin of ( 53 500 - — 53 000 ) × 1905 = £952 500 for the next three months , that is , £952 500 × 0.02411 = £22 965 . |
| 11 | To accommodate the different types of housing required , the Committee recommended a range of densities : from 30 persons per acre for suburban development to 100 persons per acre for town centres , rising to a maximum of 120 for the largest cities . |
| 12 | According to government figures in the first nine months of 1991 the number of immigrants of German origin ( Aussiedler ) fell to 166,786 from 337,394 for the same period of 1990 , but the number of asylum-seekers rose from 143,826 to 169,785 . |
| 13 | Senior officials from India and Pakistan met in New Delhi on Nov. 5-6 for the fifth round of talks on the Sir Creek border dispute relating to the demarcation of maritime boundaries in the Great Rann of Kutch [ see pp. 38153 ; 38533 ] . |
| 14 | More than 680 homes were sold in January , rising to 750 for the first three weeks of this month . |
| 15 | On July 29 the Northern Ireland appeal court in Belfast released three out of four of the former Ulster Defence Regiment ( UDR ) members imprisoned for life in 1986 for the 1983 murder of a Catholic man [ see p. 34318 ] . |
| 16 | Within the framework established by the Education ( No. 2 ) Act 1986 for the head teacher to be in overall control of discipline in a school ( taking account of the governors ' policy on discipline ) , the law is content to allow teachers much discretion in the enforcement of school rules and application of sanctions . |
| 17 | But then more wickets fell , and the eighth was down for 103 ; only for Logie and Bishop to put on 74 for the ninth wicket , and when Logie was last man out just two short of a well-deserved hundred , the score was 199 . |
| 18 | On April 7 the 32-strong UK Conservative group in the EP joined the Christian Democratic European Popular Party ( EPP ) group , bringing its numbers to 162 as compared with 180 for the largest group , the Socialists.The Conservatives had asked to join the EPP group after the 1989 European elections but protracted negotiations had resulted from Belgian , Italian and Netherlands Christian Democrats scepticism about the Conservative commitment to Europe . |
| 19 | For the reject results the same calculations are done on the unshaded area giving revised probabilities of 0.32 for the 10 per cent and 0.68 for the 2 per cent levels . |
| 20 | We can gain some idea of this from data included in the household survey cards compiled in 1929–30 for the New survey of London life and labour ( see Appendix 1 ) . |
| 21 | And eleven O eight for the two stroke . |
| 22 | That figure multiplied by eight for the first period gave a total of two hundred and sixty eight thousand two hundred and twenty four pounds . |
| 23 | We ended up with plus eight for the positive cases where they 're positively correlated , we ended up with minus nine for the negative cases . |
| 24 | The total was 109,373 compared with 101,107 for the same period last year , said the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders . |
| 25 | They have 75 for the first readers whose names are pulled out of the bag on July 8 1992 to try . |
| 26 | Yes , I allowed Monday to get my eleven for the following week . |
| 27 | In reply , Boycott and Brearley put on no less than 129 for the first wicket — jolly good in a Test , but they took thirty-eight overs about it , with Boycott not getting into double figures until the seventeenth over . |
| 28 | He and the Italian had completed their third successive one-two for the Didcot-based team . |
| 29 | His spare-time activities during these years resulted in various patents , including one from 1931 concerning the Baird TV system and one in 1933 for the variable density technique of optically recording sound on film . |
| 30 | Ray Stewart was having an excellent meeting and clocked 10.12 for the third-fastest time of the event so far , after Carl 's two runs . |