Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] for [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Brown lived in Morrell House , Burton Stone Lane , York , but before that lived for 70 years in New Earswick . |
| 2 | We found oncogenic human papillomavirus in the cervixes of 76 ( 64% ) of the 118 smokers and 26 ( 41% ) of the 63 non-smokers , a significant difference ( χ 2 =8.02 , df=1 , p=0.005 ; χ 2 test for two proportions ) . |
| 3 | This difference was statistically significant ( χ 2 =4.54 , df=1 , p=0.033 ; χ 2 test for two proportions ) . |
| 4 | THREE GUYS 17-18 YEARS OLD looking for three girls in the Eastbourne area who are into heavy metal and skateboarding- Photos please- Check this out ! ! |
| 5 | The Supreme Court charged Cerda himself with ‘ lack of discipline ’ , suspended him on half pay for two months , and replaced him by another judge who dutifully closed his case . |
| 6 | This lasts for three terms and gives you one three hour evening class every week . |
| 7 | The testimony of those whose lives have been transformed by his work is very affecting : bonded labourers , now members of the union , some bonded for three generations for the sake of a loan of Rs200 ( £5 ) and a few kilos of padi ; now learning a trade through the ‘ polytechnics ’ established by the Chattisgarh Liberation Front . |
| 8 | In London this continues for six weeks after the baby 's birth , after which girls are encouraged to go back to school . |
| 9 | Under the 1980 Constitution legislative power is held by the unicameral National Assembly , comprising 65 members ( 53 elected for five years by universal adult suffrage , on the basis of proportional representation , and 12 regional representatives ) while executive power is held by the President . |
| 10 | ‘ When we were young it was deep mourning for a year and half mourning for six months , ’ Pat said . |
| 11 | This continued for eight days or nine , till the companions of the Cid had made ready every thing for their departure , as he had commanded . |
| 12 | This lasted for two years , until he became Headmaster of Doncaster Grammar School , where he stayed until 1881 . |
| 13 | This lasted for four hours , from right in the morning until a little after noon . |
| 14 | This lasted for three days and they were called-up for questioning several times each day . |
| 15 | This makes for 2,375 drawings ( 707 Flemish-Dutch , 513 French and 1,155 Italian ) . |
| 16 | As Mitcham Road and Penge depôts were each built for 25 cars , the South Metropolitan company spaciously provided accommodation for double the number of cars its fleet ever reached , presumably with other extensions still in mind . |
| 17 | I 've been doing it without you taking much notice for thirty years . ’ |
| 18 | We were very glad to arrange for five photographers to make a survey of the village ; its people and occupations — unusual sights and environment |
| 19 | Wall Street is beginning to firm up its forecasts for IBM Corp 's first quarter figures , with the consensus at around 20 cents a share and the more bearish going for 50 cents — but if Technology News of America 's straw poll of the market around the US and Europe is anywhere near right , the loss is going to be a whole lot worse than that : the returns suggest that the company will have sold at best between 25 and 30 mainframes this quarter , where the Wall Street forecasts assume it did nearer 50 machines . |
| 20 | Wall Street is beginning to firm up its forecasts for IBM Corp 's first quarter figures , with the consensus at around 20 cents a share and the more bearish going for 50 cents — but if Technology News of America 's straw poll of the market around the US and Europe is anywhere near right , the loss is going to be a whole lot worse than that : the returns suggest that the company will have sold at best between 25 and 30 mainframes this quarter , where the Wall Street forecasts assume it did nearer 50 machines . |
| 21 | Once diagnosed , a patient is lucky to survive for five years for , unlike cervical cancers , lung cancers are usually spotted too late for doctors to be able to destroy them . |
| 22 | Hard to return for seven days and in those days churn up the past and curdle precious memories . |
| 23 | He then introduced a new type of 4–4–0 express locomotive , with a leading bogie which gave much smoother and safer negotiation of curved track at speed , and these ran for fifty years from their entry into service in 1876 . |
| 24 | They were measured again at the start of the experiment and every two weeks during the " active " phase which was due to last for eight weeks . |
| 25 | It is not uncommon to wait for 5 hours for the result to be obtained . |
| 26 | I mean , Cover Master , it 's very simple , say you want , yeah , it 's a hundred thousand arranged for twenty years , and then later on . |
| 27 | Erm it might be better to go for two squares is one engine and they 'll fit on okay . |
| 28 | Senior officers have an exclusive say for thirty-six hours and thereafter an influential say before magistrates on how long a suspect should be kept in custody . |
| 29 | 5 Bake for 25–30 minutes until the dough has shrunk slightly away from the sides of the tin and is golden and crisp . |
| 30 | The mothers were given milk-with-soya to drink for two days or soya only for two days — there was an interval of two , four or six days between the milk challenges . |