Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] for a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we were biologically capable of living for a million years , and wanted to do so , we should assess risks quite differently . |
| 2 | BASF blamed the high costs of restructuring for a 16 per cent fall in pre-tax profits for the first nine months of 1991 , from DM 2336m ( £1 = DM2.85 ) to DM 1962m . |
| 3 | Well , in the in the question of I M R O as far as it 's erm occupational pension scheme members are concerned , er there 's no there 's no compensation responsibility and I think that that means that you get no , no whistle blowing and in I mean there 's , we 've got , I mean one of the points that we , we heard of just last evening was that one of the of the banks involved ended up er in its arrangements with Maxwell of asking for a hundred and sixty per cent of shares for every hundred per cent of loans that it made to Maxwell . |
| 4 | Recently a large 6000m 2 custom Axminster contract for a five star international hotel in southern Sweden was won against stiff opposition from the U.K. and in Berlin , Stoddard Mattor are one of two finalists in quoting for a 10,000 square metre hotel project . |
| 5 | You can cheat quayside tavernas of their evening entertainment ( and enjoy your cruise a lot more ) by paying for a two day ‘ Brush-Up ’ course in Nidri . |
| 6 | One of the most exciting is the happy demise of eleven character file names — the old 8 and 3 construction of filename and extension can be done away with by opting for a 32 bit High Performance Filing System ( HPFS ) which allows long file names — things like ‘ letter to bank manager about my loan ’ which have much more meaning than ‘ Letloan.doc ’ , for instance . |