Example sentences of "[be] [pron] for every [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Powys , on the other hand , there is one for every 590 people . |
| 2 | Britain has only 3,000 bottle banks , that is one for every 17,000 people , compared to Holland , for example , which has one per 1,400 people . |
| 3 | It produces five billion food packets every year ; that 's one for every single person on earth . |
| 4 | The first is that some 600,000 debt cases ( that is , all types of unpaid debt , including rent and fuel bills as well as unmet credit obligations ) have had to be settled in court each year : that 's one for every 30 families or so . |
| 5 | More people owned motor cars than previously : by 1956 there was one car for every three people in the United States ; in France and Britain the figure was one for every thirteen people . |
| 6 | On the second day we went out climbing again but the assessors — there was one for every two candidates — constantly posed us with problems to find out how we would deal with rescues and emergencies . |