Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [verb] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JIM KELLY ran for one touchdown and threw for another as Buffalo beat Denver 27-17 to move within sight of an NFL play-off spot . |
| 2 | And the British Rail Board stalled for four years , before admitting there was no evidence . |
| 3 | The 1989 defence budget called for 1.7 per cent growth in spending to 11.75 billion lei ( approximately £500 million — Britain 's defence budget in the same period was £19.2 billion ) , but this is insufficient for the armed forces ' perceived needs . |
| 4 | Drug couriers jailed for seven years each |
| 5 | However , believing this to be the agreement , Jones cancelled a previously scheduled talk in the Brigham Young University physics department set for 8 March , only two days hence . |
| 6 | David Snow settles for 65 species including one , the grey-winged cotinga , which he discovered himself in 1980 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Strabane scored 212 — the Gillespie brothers accounting for 149 of the runs and for good measure Mark ( 64 not out ) was voted man of the match . |
| 9 | At the meeting federation vice-chairman Richard Coyles called for 3,000 more beat bobbies throughout the country to prevent ‘ anarchy ’ in cities . |
| 10 | An exploration and appraisal programme prepared for 1993/94 involves spudding a well in the JX satellite in November — the first exploration well in the area for some 20 years — and drilling two appraisal wells in the FS and WX satellites early next year . |
| 11 | Changes in the labour force accounted for 1.53 per cent and 1.57 per cent respectively . |
| 12 | With Richard Hill warned for three beefy challenges on the impressive Matt Dawson and Mark Linnett fortunate that a few loose uses of fist and foot went unseen , the atmosphere was anything but festive . |
| 13 | THE girl allegedly abandoned by Senator Edward Kennedy in the Chappaquiddick car tragedy lived for two hours afterwards , it is claimed . |
| 14 | But none of these problems is unique to acid house : the Notting Hill Carnival continues for three days , attracts vast crowds , involves large-scale drug consumption , and is stupefyingly noisy . |
| 15 | Bobby Hebert threw for 301 yards and two touchdowns for the Saints . |
| 16 | ( According to government figures , Eastern bloc countries accounted for 68 per cent of the total foreign trade turnover in 1986/87 , of which the Soviet Union accounted for 60 per cent . ) |
| 17 | A rumbling dispute about changes to working conditions sparked an ill-temperered row in a research facility marked for twenty years of good industrial relations . |
| 18 | Intramucosal 5-aminosalicyclic acid ( 5-ASA ) and acetylated 5-ASA ( Ac-5-ASA ) concentrations were determined in ileocolonic biopsy specimens from 61 patients with irritable bowel syndrome treated for one week with near equimolar doses of different slow release preparations of 5-ASA ( Claversal , Asacol , or Pentasa ) or azo-bound drugs ( Salazopyrine , Dipentum ) . |
| 19 | That evening , Edward Carrington tried for six hours to make radio contact with XU . |
| 20 | Transportation sources accounted for 66 per cent of carbon monoxide emissions in 1989 ( table 8.5 ) . |
| 21 | Once a year even the most reliable wind pattern fails for eight days or so . |
| 22 | The founder of a support group for families of those who fought in the Gulf War has had his court appearance on theft charges adjourned for two weeks . |
| 23 | The choir of New College Oxford prepares for one of it 's most important performances . |
| 24 | Recalled New York Jets quarterback Ken O'Brien passed for three first-half touchdowns in a 26–14 defeat of Miami Dolphins . |
| 25 | Spanswick was sentenced to nine months imprisonment suspended for two years with a supervision order attached . |
| 26 | Judge Tony Briggs sentenced him to 18 months imprisonment suspended for two years . |
| 27 | Judge William Hannah sentenced Francis , of Caroline Street , Hetton-le-Hole , to four months imprisonment suspended for two years and ordered him to pay £500 compensation . |
| 28 | Judge Harold Hewitt sentenced Randhawa , 21 , of Heron Drive , Darlington , to 15 months imprisonment suspended for two years and attached a supervision order . |
| 29 | Judge David Bryant sentenced him to nine months imprisonment suspended for two years and ordered him to pay £200 costs . |
| 30 | Judge William Hannah sentenced him to three months imprisonment suspended for 12 months . |