Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [noun] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company plans to make around 100 Evantes next year and is already holding deposits for 18 cars . |
| 2 | Indeed , they lost Gooch , Hick — cheaply again — and Stewart before they were in credit ; but with Smith mixing careworn defence and carefree attack , once pulling Su'a for six while on one knee as the Samoan attempted some left-arm spin , and Lamb all bustle and energy , English fears were eased going into the last day . |
| 3 | He ends up serving Laban for twenty years , in which time he has his wages changed ten times ( and that does not mean continually increased , either ) . |
| 4 | Apart from costing the lives of countless millions of animals each year , its production is also causing starvation for millions all over the world . |
| 5 | Liverpool , Glasgow and Manchester dominate the list of fastest declining LLMAs for 1971–81 , not just in absolute but also in percentage terms , despite their large size , with London not far behind . |
| 6 | I 'm out delivering milk for four to five hours . |
| 7 | The 69-year-old man had won the Joslin medal for successfully taking insulin for 50 years . |
| 8 | The Church introduced measures to control demolition over seven hundred years ago , and has been regularly inspecting churches for three hundred years . |
| 9 | Puts those strange beings who hang out in London 's Forbidden Planet to shame : at the big bookstores in Tokyo 's student district , some will stand there reading Rapeman for eight hours on end |
| 10 | There is , indeed , a divine magnitude to this demi-continent of nearly four million square miles , almost half of which constitutes the backbone of the country — the famous Canadian Shield , a range of ancient rocklands ( the world 's oldest ) which arcs from Labrador in the east , through Quebec far into southern Ontario , thence piercing north for 2000 miles into the Arctic itself . |
| 11 | This case shows hypersensitivity to dexamethasone in a patient previously taking hydrocortisone for five months with no evidence of hypersensitivity . |
| 12 | About 1868 a new school was built but this has now been replaced by a modern and forward thinking school for five to eleven year olds . |
| 13 | By 1890 a different kind of underground railway , a tube , had been tunnelled out through the green and yellow clay ( incidentally providing materials for millions of bricks ) , and this first line passed under the river from King William Street to Stockwell . |