Example sentences of "[adj] for a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beck had a final round of 70 for a 12-under par total of 276 , but it was a tight finish , particularly when he bunkered his second shot behind the 18th green . |
| 2 | ‘ The scene does not seem right for a 1987 style crash , but the more cautious will be dusting off the chartist 's recommendations to see which shares can still be sold . ’ |
| 3 | You could lose yourself here , I thought , fall asleep for a hundred years . |
| 4 | This fairy castle in the clouds has been asleep for a hundred years and the briars are beginning to take over . |
| 5 | Two Oxford research groups under the directions of clinical pharmacologist Professor David Grahame-Smith and psychiatrist Professor Michael Gelder have used a substance called yohimbine which is specific for a 2 -receptors to study the number of platelet receptors before and after childbirth ( Lancet , vol i , p 495 ) . |
| 6 | Earlier induction of labour would obviously be preferable for a 40 year old primigravid woman with a long history of infertility , even after an uncomplicated pregnancy , whereas it may be inappropriate for a 25 year old multiparous woman . |
| 7 | Very often you will be disappointed — ‘ … you want that for a seven year old car . |
| 8 | Surrounded by admiring fans , the young author put pen to paper with an already practiced style , pretty slick for a 10 year old — especially considering he wrote his book when he was 7 . |
| 9 | I do think it is scandalous thing neglecting your educational system and you 're going to pay for this for a hundred years , because riches just come by learning , that 's all . |
| 10 | With a sweeping run down the outside , the Sadler 's Wells colt displayed impressive acceleration to lead inside the two-furlong marker and draw clear for a length-and-a-half victory over Dr Devious , from whom he was receiving 5lb . |
| 11 | Captain Scarlet is to make his comeback to our TV screens on October 1 at 6.30pm on BBC 2 for a 32 week run . |
| 12 | The boy , aged between seven and ten years , is wanted to play the part of Bert in All My Sons , which opens on October 7 for a three week run . |
| 13 | Terry Gibson was on target twice to help Wimbledon eclipse Port Vale 3-0 for a 5-1 win on aggregate . |
| 14 | It 's not much for a hundred quid is it ? |
| 15 | Well when she 's level Clare means she 's well ahead of herself and now she 's got , you could give her books that were appropriate for a ten year old and she could read them |
| 16 | Seven and six for a twenty-four hour day . |
| 17 | That was my job so therefore my hands had to be constantly clean and that 's not easy for a seventeen year old to keep his hands clean all the time but I had to . |
| 18 | Lot fifty three again it 's in front of the rostrum here , Lot number fifty three for a hundred pounds at one hundred pounds at one hundred pounds , any more at one hundred only , at one hundred , you all done ? |
| 19 | Lot number one O three Lot number one O three for a hundred pounds and ten , twenty one twenty , any more at one hundred and twenty pounds , at one twen anybody else at one hundred and twenty pounds , any more ? |
| 20 | Torrance had battled against a blustery wind to shoot a one-over-par 73 for a 54 holes aggregate of 210 . |
| 21 | Earlier induction of labour would obviously be preferable for a 40 year old primigravid woman with a long history of infertility , even after an uncomplicated pregnancy , whereas it may be inappropriate for a 25 year old multiparous woman . |
| 22 | ‘ Fine for a 1950s semi , but old buildings were n't intended to be hermetically sealed ; preventing moisture getting in and out causes real damage . ’ |
| 23 | Moorlands , mountains and hills crowded round on every side ; seas shimmered azure , emerald , green and blue in August sunlight ; the scent of peat smoke filled the air and we drove through a landscape that had remained almost unchanged for a thousand years . |
| 24 | I know about the AOL and the AOL is good for a hundred years ! ’ |
| 25 | This is very good for a two seater glider . |
| 26 | But Scottish club Hearts ' hopes of a UEFA Cup fightback were cruelly ended in Belgium last night , as they lost 1–0 for a 2–0 aggregate defeat to Standard Liege . |
| 27 | Helen Dobson , the 18-year-old British matchplay and strokeplay champion from Skegness , and Elaine Farquharson , the 21-year-old from Aberdeen had a two-under-par final round of 69 for a six-under total of 278 . |
| 28 | In The Netherlands , existing dikes and other protection works will have to be raised and reinforced at a cost of US $3.1–8.8 billion for a 70–200 cm sea-level rise ( Barbier , 1989 ) . |
| 29 | Our old deep-sea mate Jaws , responsible for a million castration complexes , apparently |
| 30 | The report , prepared by Robert Gershony , an independent consultant responsible for a 1988 report on atrocities carried out by rebels in Mozambique , accused the Somali armed forces of a " widespread , systematic and extremely violent assault on the unarmed civilian Issaq population of northern Somalia " ; however , it also discovered evidence of widespread atrocities by the SNM rebels . |