Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [noun pl] for the " in BNC.
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1 | Centre manager Malcolm Powton said he hoped for 500 visitors for the party day , including Durham County Council 's director of social services , Peter Kemp . |
2 | CRAIG WHITEHEAD , a Nottingham City forward , was yesterday banned for eight matches for the elbow tackle which smashed Jason Ramshaw 's jaw , nose and cheekbone , and also may face a private prosecution on behalf of the 20-year-old Halifax player . |
3 | The house was built by an Edwardian doctor using only the best materials — oak cured for eight years for the lower rooms ' panelling , fine teak for the window frames and mahogany for the fireplace . |
4 | 1 Mix all of the ingredients together in a small bowl and leave at room temperature for 30 minutes for the flavours to develop . |
5 | The rest day , incidentally , was taken after two days for the lovely Caribbean reason of avoiding a clash with a steel-band festival . |
6 | Thompson , of Crawley , was fined £400 and banned for six months for the lesser charge of driving without due care and attention . |
7 | A year later he worked for six months for the Eastern Health and Social Services Board in the Belfast area . |
8 | BRITON Karl Maxwell-Smith , jailed for 100 years for the murder of his Thai wife , was freed yesterday . |
9 | It took about six weeks for the fever to go and then we got sulphur candles to fumigate the house from top to bottom . |
10 | The process is fast — about 4–6 minutes for the cream and 6–8 minutes for the mousse — and as it dissolves hair a little below the surface of the skin , the result is often smoother , without stubble , and a slower regrowth then shaving . |
11 | Wigan held the previous record of eight players for the 1950 tour and there can be no argument about their representation in a 32-man squad which is ‘ stronger and better equipped ’ than any sent previously , according to Malcolm Reilly , the British coach . |
12 | By 1202 he had accepted from William Brewer an offer of a fine of 500 marks for the marriage of the daughter and heiress of Hugh of Morville , late hereditary warden of Inglewood forest , with his son Richard or his nephew Richard Gernon , and for having Hugh 's forest wardenship on the same terms . |
13 | I book the late meals at 1430 hours for everyone , and organise the loading of fifty pallets for the exercise — working through lunch to get the vessel away as quickly as possible . |
14 | The initial target of 120 members for the co-op has already been achieved and the group is aiming to market 70,000 lambs and 6000 head of beef cattle in its first year . |
15 | Major land surveys were carried out for Wimpey Minerals at Isley and Newark and a further contract of 1/2500 maps for the Ordnance Survey was successfully completed . |
16 | He won gold and silver at the gala , and is likely to be replaced as one of the region 's stars by John Purvis , 15 , of Hartlepool who won three silvers and three bronze , and blind Christopher Ross of Ormesby who , in the youngest age category , won four golds and set a national record of 24.31 seconds for the 25 metres freestyle . |
17 | Each LIFESPAN Process requires a minimum of 4500 blocks for the database files , which will of course grow as you use the LIFESPAN Process . |
18 | He is one of 30 applicants for the manager 's job . |
19 | Now organiser Belfast City Council is setting a target of 110,000 participants for the challenge against Rostock . |
20 | Mantoux , on the basis of the enquiry of 1816 , instances fourteen , sixteen , or even eighteen hours with a dinner break of forty minutes for the largely female and juvenile labour force . |
21 | Dromore jockey John Reid who is having his best ever season was in a suitably bullish mood when I spoke to him about the remainder of the 1993 Flat racing year which has seen him head inexorably towards 100 winners for the first time in his career . |
22 | Worldwide , since its launch some fifteen months ago , PageMaker has shipped in excess of 30,000 units for the Macintosh . |
23 | Scattered violence was reported , but the meetings resulted in the selection of 144,950 delegates for the primaries , which would choose gubernatorial candidates for the state elections due in 1992 . |
24 | British beaches are becoming increasingly polluted despite 35 awards for the blue flag , the European Commission 's highest commendation of beach excellence . |
25 | Braiding is the technique of using a multiple of three stitches for the work . |
26 | Harlow , however , hit back to square at 17-17 and after the pair had traded singles on the next two ends , a finishing burst of three singles for the Englishman gave him the title . |
27 | In the early 1920s she published a series of three guide-lines for the removal of what she termed as ‘ counter-revolutionary ’ literature from local libraries . |
28 | Freud 's view here is Comtean ; he thinks in terms of three stages for the progress of civilization , beginning with the animistic phase , to which modern obsessional or paranoid neurotics regress , going through an intermediate phase of religion , which is different from the first because people give the powers and omnipotence to gods , and not to themselves as they do in the magical phase of animism . |
29 | Another enchanting piece in the same book , ‘ Chiome d'oro ’ , is described as a ‘ Canzonetta a due voci Concertata da duoi Violini Chitarone o Spinetta ’ ; the voices duet ( mostly in parallel thirds ) over an ostinato bass , each of their five strophes being introduced by one of three ritornelli for the two violini over the same ostinato . |
30 | Patients were asked to write down the highest of three blows for the paper and pencil diary and to enter the values of all three blows into the computer . |