Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] for [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! ! |
| 2 | We were very glad to arrange for five photographers to make a survey of the village ; its people and occupations — unusual sights and environment |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Hard to return for seven days and in those days churn up the past and curdle precious memories . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is not uncommon to wait for 5 hours for the result to be obtained . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In exceptional cases they may be able to continue for 300 yards , but beyond this they quickly become exhausted and give up . |
| 12 | Finally , studies have shown fitness improvement levels off once you are easily able to exercise for 30 minutes . |
| 13 | Michael Redgrave was fortunate in having an excellent stepfather , and was able to study for four years at Cambridge University where he obtained an honourable B.A. ( Cantab . ) . |
| 14 | The total ban on all vehicles including cycles will run from 10.30am to 4pm and they stressed disabled drivers who get into the area before 10.30 would be able to stay for three hours before driving out . |
| 15 | Young Lisa Hammond 's survival depended on an operation that would leave her in pain and unable to move for six months . |
| 16 | The experience left him unable to move for ten hours . |
| 17 | When the sewage treatment plant comes into operation in 1998 it will be able to cater for four times the population of Whitby . |
| 18 | Such configurations ( fig.9.7 ) can be difficult to interpret for two reasons . |
| 19 | AMR Corp , parent of American Airlines Inc , has agreed to take delivery of a KSR1 later this year and signed a letter of intent to collaborate for five years on a project to simplify the task of analysing and manipulating massive amounts of data . |
| 20 | AMR Corp , parent of American Airlines Inc , has agreed to take delivery of a KSR1 later this year and signed a letter of intent to collaborate for five years on a project to simplify the task of analysing and manipulating massive amounts of data . |
| 21 | Thorfinn sent Tuathal to sleep for ten minutes and , when he returned , dropped in his place on the bare earth of an old wattle barn , asleep before he stopped moving . |
| 22 | The solar challenge is the race to the future … fifty machines looking more like spaceships than cars are on the grid in darwin … ready to roll for 2000 miles … ready to soak up the sun … |