Example sentences of "[verb] its [noun sg] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It signed a standstill agreement under which it promised not to increase its holding for three years . |
| 2 | At that particular time , er , quite right , faced with the failing national economy , and it 's got worse than it was then , and an increase in poverty in , this controlling group produced its plan for 1990 ninety one and in it 's redirection packages which are now part of our agenda on Council we d we made to pledges , one was to change the nature of Council and the other was to redirect sources on the process of need and we put four point three million on redirection in the first year , four point seven the second year . |
| 3 | The Asdex tokamak at Garching in West Germany has what is known as a ‘ poloidal divertor ’ and holds the record for the duration of a plasma in a tokamak — Asdex has sustained its plasma for 10 seconds . |
| 4 | On May 8 the government approved its budget for 1991 totalling ID13,935,000 million ( approximately US$44,000 million ) which placed special emphasis on reconstruction . |
| 5 | ‘ For the moment Canada has no plans to press its suit for 1995 ’ . |
| 6 | The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development cut its forecast for 1993 economic growth in its 24 member countries from 1.9% , its estimate of last December , to 1.2% . |
| 7 | MEPC raised its dividend for 1991 , but some analysts believe that , without sales from the Oldham portfolio , it will be forced to cut the dividend for the current year . |
| 8 | The SOC National Assembly voted on Feb. 2 to extend its term for one year . |
| 9 | The Brasher Hillmaster is a well established boot which has proved its suitability for three season walking . |
| 10 | Their lungs are not particularly large , despite the fact that a dolphin can hold its breath for five minutes or more , and some species of whales can submerge for up to an hour and survive on a single breath . |
| 11 | The centre-left government of Jean-Luc Dehaene , sworn in in March [ see p. 38821 ] , presented its budget for 1992 at the beginning of April . |
| 12 | Wall Street yesterday finally woke up to what we have been saying since January — that IBM Corp sets its dividend for one quarter at a time , and that there is no guarantee that the level declared for fourth quarter 1992 will be maintained quarterly this year : market dealers in Europe say a rumour surfaced here yesterday morning that another cut may be coming . |
| 13 | The RMT executive committee gave its approval for 70,000 railway members to be balloted on 4 and 5 March over whether they will support strike action , the spokesman said . |
| 14 | In the seventy years which have elapsed since the publication of Miss Buckland 's book the tomato has taken its revenge for three centuries of neglect . |
| 15 | The Yorkshire Electricity Board donated a fifty-seven foot redundant pylon and took it to Morley to be treated which , it was hoped , would prolong its life for forty years . |
| 16 | It has recently published its prospectus for 1992-93 , and I will send my hon. Friend a copy . |