Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Puma has introduced for 1992 a new concept in shoe comfort , the Puma Disc system . |
| 2 | but left open the question whether there is any difference under section 87 if the successor has resided for 12 months with the deceased tenant in two or more council houses or has resided partly in a council house and partly in private sector accommodation : [ 1987 ] 1 W.L.R. 1433 , 1441H . |
| 3 | John Doxsie , head of Staley 's sweetener division , says that in the three years since its launch , Krystar has accounted for 100 million lb of the annual five billion lb market for all sweeteners . |
| 4 | Computer has waited for fifteen thousand years . |
| 5 | A Norwegian university has asked for five people |
| 6 | Much depends on the respective cost of reinsurance which TI has secured for 1992 and NCM has just purchased in December 1991 . |
| 7 | The club has restarted for 1991 and everything seems to be going well . |
| 8 | These show public industry to have accounted for 11 per cent of GDP , not far short of 10 per cent of the workforce and a level of investment equivalent to the whole of private manufacturing [ Prest and Coppock , 1983 ] . |
| 9 | Yet , running through them , the still more ancient river Indus had existed for millions of years before their rise . |
| 10 | That the project may now be delayed by Chinese inquisitiveness should be seen in the context of the fact that the current administration had dithered for 15 years on the project . |
| 11 | As a result its turnover had increased for 14 successive years . |
| 12 | Raymond Cusick had hoped for six Daleks from his budget but in the end the money only ran to affording four . |
| 13 | The haemoglobin concentration continued to fall for two days after his admission , reaching a nadir of 61 g/l . |
| 14 | — there are far fewer letters than sounds , so that , for example , the five written vowels have to stand for two to three times as many spoken vowels ; |
| 15 | Well , well the rest of the country are beginning to realise , what Leeds fans have known for three years . |
| 16 | H B F have gone for four point four five percent . |
| 17 | As we enter the nineties we are progressing slowly with direct mail in UK politics , but national attempts by the different parties have failed for one reason or another . |
| 18 | Draw up a score-sheet and get enough photocopies made to last for two or three weeks . |
| 19 | The promotion means farewell to the Northern League middle , in which Winter has officiated for six years . |
| 20 | Military officials said a relief column heading for Huambo , where a battle has raged for six weeks , clashed with Unita forces about 60 miles from the city . |
| 21 | Hitachi , with its partners Maxwell and Matsushita , has come up with a disc the same size , while a third combine headed by Seagate has opted for 3¼ inch ( 7–8 cm ) in an attempt to head off the Japanese competition . |
| 22 | The debate about linking Skye and the mainland has continued for 20 years . |
| 23 | Every 100,000 years or so there has been a ‘ temperate window ’ when the ice has receded for seven to ten thousand years . |
| 24 | Would he not agree er that the fact that erm the Home Office plan to give allow for seven million pounds extra er for the police budget in W in Wales whereas in actual fact local government has chosen er to give only two point two million er through the police budget er is a disgrace and reflects very badly on the running of the police authority and on the chairmanship of that committee . |
| 25 | Most of us , as people who live in this world , are interested in our environment , and even if not young we certainly grow to appreciate it and to learn a bit about flowers and the way animals live and work in our garden and watching David Attenborough on television and erm we have a genuine interest because as part of this world we know it and come to understand it , and probably feel , therefore , if even if you 're not a biology specialist , which you certainly do n't have to be by any means , when a child asks a question about , you know , ‘ where do the flies go in winter ? ’ and ‘ why 's the hamster gone to sleep for three months ? ’ we feel more capable of answering it because we 're closer to it ourselves and those are the sorts of questions that people told us . |
| 26 | Most of us , as people who live in this world , are interested in our environment , and even if not young we certainly grow to appreciate it and to learn a bit about flowers and the way animals live and work in our garden and watching David Attenborough on television and erm we have a genuine interest because as part of this world we know it and come to understand it , and probably feel , therefore , if even if you 're not a biology specialist , which you certainly do n't have to be by any means , when a child asks a question about , you know , ‘ where do the flies go in winter ? ’ and ‘ why 's the hamster gone to sleep for three months ? ’ we feel more capable of answering it because we 're closer to it ourselves and those are the sorts of questions that people told us . |
| 27 | I do know that Council do pay for two extra cuts over and above what the Cou County Council have paid for . |
| 28 | In this case , though , when I totalled their length it came to 2,000 words ; and the books editor had asked for 700 . |
| 29 | Six seconds of fame after hours of queueing for this fan of a fan THE Lamports had queued for four hours before they were interviewed for the Antiques . |
| 30 | Kim had booked for three days — the longest time available . |