Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daren Foster , coming to the end of his present contract , and Steve Bastien are in effect competing for one place . |
| 2 | Tim Curtis is not afraid to leave out seamers — but it still looks as if Illingworth and Stemp will mostly be competing for one place . |
| 3 | The day began with the men 's semi final , 28 qualifiers competing for eight places in the final . |
| 4 | Of the 1,185 candidates competing for 349 seats ( polling was not scheduled in 11 constituencies in Nagorny Karabakh and the neighbouring Shaumyan district because of security concerns ) , 921 were CP members . |
| 5 | Two hundred and eight golf professionals — some reigning champions , others young rookies — have been competing for 50 places on next season 's full European Tour . |
| 6 | Two hundred and eight golf professionals — some reigning champions , others young rookies — have been competing for 50 places on next season 's full European Tour . |
| 7 | By the time he and Norman strode out to try to win the 1986 British Open , Bender had been caddying for eighteen years , having picked up his first serious bag when he was 18 years old . |
| 8 | One student looking for employment had finished his grant entitlement in the first quarter of 1984 , and had been job-seeking for six months ( Table 7.2 ) . |
| 9 | The patients with adenomatous polyps were assigned to one of four study groups using the random sampling quota technique allowing for 10 subjects in each study group . |
| 10 | Allowing for 120 proxy votes and some 50 people at the AGM , less than half the AFBD membership bothered to register their opinion . |
| 11 | Now I 'm not suggesting for one moment that anybody who has all the problems that dear Mr has there , but I think we might be able to learn something , do you ? |
| 12 | I 'm not suggesting for one moment it 's easy , but I mean is it possible that , you know erm accepting that this is a major conflict , it does involve all of us whether we like it or not |
| 13 | Mr Vasarhelyi , who has been drawing for 30 years , has also just finished a collection of World Wide Fund for Nature stamps for export to Italy and Iceland . |
| 14 | It has been raining for three days — Oh ! how lovely the caravans were those evenings in Touggourt , when the sun was sinking into the salt . |
| 15 | Volunteers such as the receptionist form the backbone of the hospice and volunteer sitters have been helping for five years . |
| 16 | If you have embarked on this decision , entertaining friends at home may became increasingly difficult too , for your parent may look forward always to being present on these occasions , without realising for one moment that her daughter needs the opportunity sometimes to be able to relate to her friends alone , so that she can project her personality freely and share confidences and opinions with people of her own generation . |
| 17 | These solutions , which involved old technology , simply applied to the ocean freighter what railroads and truckers had been using for 30 years . |
| 18 | The larger restaurant is at Blakelands , catering for 450 staff , while there are a regular 150 catered for at Wymbush training centre with perhaps as many again depending on events and courses . |
| 19 | In the academic year 1980–1 , for example , 140,000 students were registered on 1,703 taught CNAA courses and in the same year first degree courses were catering for 123,229 students , representing a rise of 6.2 per cent compared with the previous year . |
| 20 | Nayab 's restaurant has provided catering for two functions attended by Prince Charles , who ordered 33 separate vegetarian dishes . |
| 21 | And we are now catering for 160 staff at Glasgow Development Agency in their new top quality restaurant where there is emphasis on healthy eating . |
| 22 | At the Poly , where we are already catering for 400 students , a new canteen designed by CCG is due to open in 1992 to serve 1000 students . |
| 23 | For example on our larger ships we are catering for 1900 passengers and 600 crew which means that about 7500 meals a day are consumed , excluding snacks and buffets . |
| 24 | Among the nominees attending the lunch , as recognition of their achievements , was Montgomeryshire nurse Sue Blower , who had returned specially from her work as a nurse tutor in Bucharest , Romania , where she is helping to set up that country 's first school of nursing for 40 years . |
| 25 | A Devon labourer who promised his mother not to marry in her lifetime , finally married only at the age of 51 : ‘ bugger , we was courting for seventeen year . |
| 26 | ‘ We will want to know if the warning lights had only been flashing for 10 seconds and not 30 . ’ |
| 27 | Physicists of the Joint European Torus ( JET ) based near Oxford , England , suceeded for the first time in producing for two seconds energy by means of nuclear fusion . |
| 28 | Who 's going to get into a fight after surfing for eight hours ? ’ |
| 29 | I 've been cooking for 7 years now , including my school , my cookery school . |
| 30 | The store coach consisted of an office for the officer in charge , linen store , two store rooms for provisions , sleeping accommodation for chief steward and cook , and a large kitchen fitted with all accessories for cooking for 140 patients . |