Example sentences of "[was/were] for the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were some comparatively small reductions to the Housing Benefit budget but the major savings — which ran into billions of pounds — were for the 1990s and the next century . |
| 2 | Boyle spoke yesterday of how delighted he was for the two athletes and the satisfaction their golden double gave him . |
| 3 | And he could n't do it , because , the pair of them , I mean , that was , that business was supporting his mother as well and between them , after they 'd paid for the petrol , they were taking in less than a hundred pounds a week and that was for the two of them . |
| 4 | The bust , bosom or cleavage was for the Fifties the apotheosis of erogenous zones . |
| 5 | The last time was for the three months before she encountered Jarvis in Fawley Road . |