Example sentences of "[noun pl] were for the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Now the depot office the they in those days controlled what a man 's duties were for the next day and a man did n't know what he was on until about twelve o'clock one day what he was on the next day .
2 of the records were for the third week of September .
3 of the records were for the last week of April and the first two of May .
4 This demand was indeed radical since women were for the first time trying to achieve some independence as persons and to exercise some power as individuals in their own right .
5 Women were for the first time identified in their own right as potential land reform beneficiaries .
6 All this depended on the fact that the Romans were for the first time in the law of succession experiencing an ‘ open ’ system .
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