Example sentences of "[noun sg] for a [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( This evening — as I knew I would and could — I coaxed and bullied him , and he wrote out a cheque for a hundred pounds , which he 's promised to send off tomorrow . |
| 2 | that there have n't been any forces of change for a thousand years . |
| 3 | His cottages at Blaize Hamlet blazed a trail for a hundred years . |
| 4 | Mrs Drubb with a wedding-breakfast for a hundred guests to organize had more than enough to do . |
| 5 | It has been a major political and cultural force for a hundred years . |
| 6 | It was the persuasion of the Vice Society that led Lord Chancellor Campbell to push through the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 , an Act which was to remain in force for a hundred years , and this was followed by the establishment of the first ( and short-lived ) Obscene Publications police squad in London . |
| 7 | After eight miles of rough driving , we reached the local highland town of Makale , and the only petrol-pump for a hundred miles . |
| 8 | Clinton 's long-time Arkansas-based aide Betsey Wright has seen the alliance work for a dozen years . |
| 9 | Built in 1820 it ground corn for a hundred years . |
| 10 | Or do the nuclear powers-that be believe that they have won for the world not only peace in our time , but peace for a million years and more . |
| 11 | Certainly , it was quite a strenuous walk — though I can say it failed to cause me any real difficulty — the path rising in zigzags up the hillside for a hundred yards or so . |
| 12 | The justiciar , Geoffrey FitzPeter , who had taken the cross , was absolved as he was dying in return for a 2000 marks ' subsidy for the Holy Land . |
| 13 | In Salah would be the biggest town for a thousand miles . |
| 14 | Face to face with him ( the first time since receiving their inheritance from him ) , they attack his claimed need for a hundred knights . |
| 15 | The track , after leaving the ridge , went steeply down for a few yards and then turned to the right and ran diagonally across the hill for a hundred yards ; the pile of rocks was about midway on the right-hand side of this length of the track . |
| 16 | Bards would sing of this moment for a thousand years . |
| 17 | erm Lewes has only had a mayoralty for a hundred years , and so its ceremonial is somewhat new , but one was able to draw on the traditions in places like Rye where it goes back to the thirteenth , fourteenth centuries and erm I used some of the phraseologies out of sixteenth century Rye documents and so on in my Lewes mayoralty on these sorts of ceremonial occasions , and introduced some of the ceremonial which I knew was authentic to mayoralties elsewhere in Sussex . |
| 18 | ‘ I would n't take the picture for a million dollars . |
| 19 | On the second part , well nobody feels more strongly that I do about the problems of noise pollution and I agree entirely there er with what councillor has to say but may I remind members that this council did have a full service for a six months period , you all seem to have forgotten that , we did have a full service , an experimental one which ran for six months , er we were advised by the officers at the end of that period it was not necessary to run the full seven day a week service , it was not necessary we are still being advised that that is not necessary , that is the advice we were given at the last committee meeting and er the majority of members supported that . |
| 20 | They did n't drive around in their fathers ' cast-off Rollers ; they pooled their resources , picked up a MkII escort for a hundred notes at an auction and took it in turns to drive it round a disused airfield practising handbrake turns until the car cried enough . |
| 21 | But is there a facility for a twelve months payment order or |
| 22 | As this did not seem adequately to reach them , " In this country , we have only generally had waterborne sewage for a hundred years or so . |
| 23 | When the conductress and the girl turned and began their precarious stiff-armed run along the platform back to the wrought-iron steps of carriage No 3 , it was the signal for a dozen others to do likewise . |
| 24 | It is not like Hamburg , where they have had a tournament for a hundred years and people would go out and watch tennis at 7 am , even in the freezing cold . ’ |
| 25 | I recently changed my 1971 Range Rover for a 26,000 miles , high compression engine , 1984 model . |
| 26 | The murals of Diego Rivera for the Secretariat of Public Education in Mexico City are admitted by the critic Antonio Rodriguez not to be all of an equally high standard , ‘ but what poet could keep up the same lyrical flow for a thousand verses ? |
| 27 | The training committee was wound up by Vic Machin , the chairman and the BMC secretary Derek Walker some months ago — but they have yet to inform the committee : a clear snub to the many volunteers who banged their heads against a wall with only limited success for a dozen years in a genuine attempt to impart some credibility to the BMC 's involvement in mountain training . |
| 28 | God set this Iain Og on the hot hob of hell for a thousand years — but not before I catch him ! ’ |
| 29 | It was a wind that might have swept the fields of mortality for a thousand centuries . |
| 30 | In the bewildering tracery formed by the work and by the claims and counter-claims that it has provoked , there is matter for a hundred lectures , and what follows is neither and attempt to summarize , nor a rival undertaking . |