Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] for the whole " in BNC.

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1 Journalists who shared Herr 's enthusiasm for the whole experience , if enthusiasm is the word , tend to quote with wistful nostalgia one particular line from Dispatches : ‘ I think Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods . ’
2 The point is , we can not simply change a word 's meaning for the whole community by fiat .
3 Before the days of television , watching , if not walking , the Bradford Whit Walk was a day 's entertainment for the whole family .
4 The award of the first State scholarship , providing access to a university , was celebrated with a day 's holiday for the whole school in the 1930s .
5 In fact , Japan 's trade surplus registered declines for nine consecutive months during 1989 and recorded an overall 17 per cent drop for the whole year , from $77,600 million in 1988 to $64,400 million .
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