Example sentences of "[noun sg] and for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | The batsmen now change gear and for the next 25 overs try to raise their run-scoring — ‘ strike-rate ’ in television jargon — to five or six an over without conceding more that three of four wickets . |
2 | Lipson and colleagues subsequently report ( May 22 , p 1352 ) from Australia a girl born with multiple congenital defects to a mother , who before conception and for the first 5 weeks of gestation , had used a topical liquid preparation of 0.05% tretinoin in 45% alcohol . |
3 | Digital Equipment Corp has announced that it will offer a new hub backplane , code-named One Hub , in early 1993 , plugging the gap at the high end of the DEChub 90 range and for the first time offering Ethernet , Token Ring , and the Fibre Distributed Data Interface , FDDI , at first , and Asynchronous Transfer Mode high-speed networking technology , when it becomes available , in one product . |
4 | It is a language that needs a large memory capacity and for the first time there were machines available to use it . |
5 | Listening to the news through a set of headphones is at the core of the work and for the last year there has been monitoring of television broadcasts by satellite . |
6 | Madeline had spent 20 years in education and childcare management and for the last 10 had been running nine nurseries for a charity in London . |
7 | I think it 's possibly the thirteenth consecutive year I 've been on the committee and for the first time I 've managed to be elected . |
8 | The whole festival is heavily dependent on sponsorship and for the last five years it has successfully attracted and maintained a number of business sponsors both locally and nationally . |
9 | Dr Stainer died when I was fourteen-and-a half and for the next eighteen months I attended one of the LCC Day schools . |
10 | Either English for Business ( Second Level ) or English for Commerce ( Second Level ) must be passed for the Second Level Business Studies Certificate award and for the Second Level Group Certificate in Shorthand and typewriting award . |
11 | The headmistress let out a yell that must have rattled every window-pane in the building and for the second time in the last five minutes she shot out of her chair like a rocket . |
12 | Twenty five variables ( 12 qualitative and 13 quantitative ) related to clinical or biological data , endoscopic features or to the importance of the haemorrhage were collected at admission and for the next 72 hours for transfusions . |
13 | The track took a right hand curve and for the first time he saw the bridge standing high above the track . |
14 | Fama and MacBeth also found that the intercept ( ) was significantly different from the risk free rate for the entire period and for the first of the sub-periods , which tends to lend support to the zero-beta version of the CAPM rather than the risk-free rate variant . |
15 | A United States ' claim that those parts of the Convention that it favours have become customary international law has considerable implications for the international law-making process and for the third party rule . |
16 | No. 1–20 passed into the hands of London Transport and for the next few months continued to work as before . |
17 | To have Oxford Polytechnic , the largest such scheme in the sector , apparently circumventing the NAB 's preferred method of disaggregating modular courses was , however , an embarrassment and for the next cycle , commencing in 1987–88 , the Polytechnic shifted to an alternative based on ‘ subject weight ’ . |
18 | A businessman called Greville Wynne was asked to act as a freelance MI6 contact and for the next two years Penkovsky provided an incredible wealth of intimate detail about the Russians ' innermost plans including the period of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis . |
19 | Nora Fanshawe raised her head and for the first time he saw her smile , an ugly harsh smile of self-mockery . |
20 | She accepted a glass of water and for the first time looked round in order to take in the room and the people before her . |
21 | studied chartered accountancy at the Oxford Polytechnic and for the last 18 months has worked for a local chartered accountant . |
22 | As an example , if there is a gain on the sale of a property owned equally for fifteen years , occupied for the first ten years by both husband and wife and for the last five years by only the wife , there is complete exemption on the one-half share occupied by the wife throughout , and a chargeable gain to the extent of two-fifteenths of the gain on the other half ( the chargeable years being the five years after occupation had ceased less the 36 months ) . |
23 | He has n't , but on this occasion and for the second time with just over twenty minutes played , the Pisa goalkeeper was picking the ball out of the back of the net . |
24 | Nick Clark dips into the Popperfoto archive in ’ Snapshots of History ’ beginning tomorrow night and for the next 3 nights on Central News . |
25 | He agreed to be on site for the first weekend , while Dave would be present during the week and for the second weekend . |
26 | The situation did n't improve much during the rest of the week and for the first time since Rachel had been working at OBEX she found herself not looking forward to going to work in the mornings . |
27 | Le Monde reported on April 26 that the government had decided to reverse previous government policy and for the first time to pay 6,200,000 marks to an Israeli foundation for holocaust survivors . |
28 | Immediately , therefore , I was involved in the gay movement and for the first time in my life in a couple relationship . |
29 | In the 1972 election the Ngwane National Liberation Congress ( NNLC ) won three seats , and this modest revival in nationalist fortunes so disturbed Sobhuza that he promptly abrogated the constitution and for the next six years ruled by decree through the national council , a traditional body of tribal advisers . |
30 | I am 59 years of age and for the last fourteen years I have had curly perms . |