Example sentences of "[verb] [det] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Americans countered by accepting this for the first ten years , but adding an extra M per cent interest , bringing the annual figure to £40 million for the remaining fifty-two years . |
| 2 | Yet the longer she spent with Nathan Bryce the harder it was to accept that for the next four weeks her only escape from him would be in sleep . |
| 3 | Yeah well , you see , we found that for the first three or four years now they 've gradually dropped off a bit , but they did used to , I mean they still come , but it |
| 4 | I 'll be keeping this for the next few days with me looking after it . |
| 5 | It may , in fact , be better to organise it for the day after you move , because being certain that everything will run according to plan on the day of the move is almost impossible , so it is better to do without your cooker overnight and schedule this for the next morning when you know you are definitely going to be there . |
| 6 | The conversion into owner-farmers of those who had hitherto been tenants or agricultural labourers provided many for the first time with genuine prospects of making a decent living , unburdened by debts , high rents or heavy taxes . |
| 7 | Institute Council member Douglas Llambias said the fine ‘ was out of all proportion to a guilty verdict ’ , and added that if the fines were capped , ‘ we should have been publicising that for the last 12 months . |
| 8 | He had warned the Assistant Commissioner , McPhee , and together they would ensure that for the next two or three days the City was flooded with agents who would alert them at once to an assembly . |
| 9 | ‘ At first , I was keen just to get round but having done that for the last three years , I am now seriously looking at winning the race . ’ |
| 10 | I have n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing , but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the university and to sort of expand my contacts , and the Meeting House is one of those places which is open to the general public on Sundays for religious worship . |
| 11 | I had n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the University and to sort of expand my contacts . |
| 12 | So if you could do that for the next meeting I 'd be grateful . |
| 13 | And their answers are startling as they frankly reveal all for the first time . |
| 14 | They 've been threatening that for the last fifteen minutes or so . |
| 15 | We 'll have that for the next meeting . |
| 16 | They believe it will mean that for the first time in El Salvador 's history , there will be genuine political freedom . |
| 17 | Does he also admit that for the first time in the history of the national health service , waiting lists for day patients and in-patients combined have risen above 900,000 people ? |
| 18 | Your next step is to become familiar with all the foods in the second column , Suspect foods , and to make a plan to avoid consuming these for the next few months . |
| 19 | As everyone was by then in a state of complete exhaustion they did little for the next two or three days except sleep . |
| 20 | Yeah we 've been pr promising that for the last |
| 21 | Only out on the water with Pedro panting in the prow had she dared to admit that for the first time in her life she had felt herself a prisoner at the Hall . |
| 22 | If we represent these facts in mathematical form we would say that for the first state ( let us denote it by |
| 23 | This year he is revisiting those parts , and visiting some for the first time , for a series of regional bookselling reports for The Bookseller . |
| 24 | At its foundation it employed only eight officials ; and this number did not increase much for the next half-century . |