Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] a [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | and it 's eight pound fifty a bag for smokeless , I ca n't afford |
| 2 | On Jan. 7 a spokesman for the UN 's Inter-Agency Humanitarian Programme for Iraq and Kuwait said in Geneva that a minimum of US$145,300,000 would be needed to protect and assist Kurds over the next six months . |
| 3 | I shall offer in chapter 7 a reason for rejecting all forms of foundationalism . |
| 4 | That term is sometimes used loosely to refer to travellers and persons of nomadic habits , and in Mills v. Cooper a Divisional Court accorded the term such a meaning for the purposes of the Highways Act , which made it an offence for a gypsy to encamp on a highway . |
| 5 | Jeffrey Sachs , a Harvard economist who has advised the Polish government , has suggested that an aid package of $30 billion a year for five years might be in order . |
| 6 | On Jan. 1 a plan for unilateral Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza strip was proposed by two left-wing Israeli Knesset members , Ran Cohen of the Citizens ' Rights Movement and Amnon Rubinstein of the Shinui Party . |
| 7 | FoE made a number of recommendations on taxes , incentives and greater spending on research ( including the government 's Energy Efficiency Office , which , remarkably , given the nature of the times , saw its budget restricted to £15 million a year for two years in succession — a loss in real terms ) . |
| 8 | However , it is believed to be in the region of £15 million a year for the world-wide rights , plus a percentage of profits over and above that figure . |
| 9 | I repeat that if one adds to that the £40 million from the foundation , the £20 million a year for football and the £1 million that I found for the champion coaching scheme , it is clear that our commitment to sport is greater than anyone 's . |
| 10 | And so the wish-lists of Arran , Cumbrae , Cowal , the rest of Argyll and west Moray — where the Highland MEP , Winnie Ewing , has a home — will have to wait until June , when the heavily lobbied council of ministers finally approve — or not — what could be more than £20 million a year for the Highlands and Islands . |
| 11 | I have found this quite revealing — £28 000 a year for geriatric NHS long stay and over £30 000 a year for psychogeriatric long stay . |
| 12 | On Jan. 24 a spokesman for the Islamic Tahrir ( Liberation ) party , Atta Abu Rushtah , was arrested by security forces after a press conference in which he had called for suicide attacks to be launched on Western and allied interests throughout the world in retaliation for attacks on Iraq . |
| 13 | The Volkskammer approved on July 22 a budget for the second half of 1990 . |
| 14 | The church tax reaps a handsome £5 billion a year for the Protestant and Catholic Churches and the Jewish community , or about two-thirds of their total income . |
| 15 | What Delors had in mind was aid worth £10 billion a year for ten years . |
| 16 | On 7 January 1959 a committee for space research ( Comité des Recherches Spatiales ) was created by government decree . |
| 17 | Sony will pay Streisand about £1.2 million a year for an estimated 10 years to develop projects through her film company . |
| 18 | On Nov 20 a spokesman for Gailani had denied reports that he intended to meet Najibullah , and on Nov. 21 Mujjaddedi also denied meeting him , adding that " neither we nor our representatives are ready to hold talks with the puppet Najib or his representative " . |
| 19 | ‘ It is projected to average £33 billion annually to the turn of the century and grow to £45 billion a year for the first decade of the new century . |
| 20 | In Say v. Smith ( 1563 ) 1 Plowd. 269 a lease for a certain term purported to add a term which was uncertain ; the lease was held valid only as to the certain term . |
| 21 | In November 1989 a Movement for Polish Politics ( RPP ) was set up by a number of OKP deputies , members of citizens ' committees , industrial associations and various political clubs , the aim being to unite the Polish centre-right . |
| 22 | The formation of a National Maritime Board was announced on 23 November 1917 and standard wages for seamen announced six days later , recommending to the Shipping Controller £pound11 10s a month for able seamen and £pound12 for firemen , with proportionate increases for petty officers and seamen on weekly articles , backdated to 6 October . |
| 23 | three pounds eighty a week for ? |
| 24 | On Oct. 27 a spokesman for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan ( PUK ) claimed that the PKK had agreed to cease attacks on Turkey from bases inside Iraqi Kurdistan . |
| 25 | If FTC 's bid does guarantee UEFA a minimum of £15 million a year , it will work out at £1.25 million a game for the 12 matches in the eight-club , mini-league series , an experiment in making money that is certain to be continued next season , Premier League clubs will be glad to know . |
| 26 | Wales , Scotland and Northern Ireland continue to enjoy annual funding at around £15 million each — but in England , which receives approximately 90 per cent of the volume and value of tourism , Government seems set on a course of pruning ETB 's grant from around £9 million currently to only £2 million a year for national activities by 1995/96 . |
| 27 | On Feb. 19 a spokesman for the London-based Association for Free Kuwait said that more than 7,000 civilians had been killed and 17,000 detained since Aug. 2 . |
| 28 | In a statement issued on March 3 a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade described Bush 's veto as " a very wise decision which will be of great help to the future development of Sino-US relations " . |
| 29 | That was a timber prop and a timber half a prop for a bar to carry the roof . |
| 30 | On Nov. 22 a spokesman for the exiled Iraqi New Ummah Party claimed that he had been executed along with seven other officers for having attempted to depose Saddam Hussein . |