Example sentences of "[num] [noun] for [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She raised £110 , out of a total of £1,800 , to help three homes for mentally and physically handicapped children . |
| 2 | This offers 35 slots for now but there are plans to upgrade to a model 580 that would double this number . |
| 3 | A police spokeswoman said a section of the eastbound carriageway of the A45 was cordoned off into one lane for more than two hours . |
| 4 | Here and there a regular path of some animal helped them but it rarely ran in one direction for long and they were unwilling to lose contact with the water which they would eventually have to cross . |
| 5 | We 've got them all under one roof for less than twenty-four hours now … we must get the proof we need , or a confession . ’ |
| 6 | Dr Dowling believes that part of the reason why house officers are often so impotent in hospital politics is that they are essentially migrant labour — rarely in one place for more than six months . |
| 7 | ‘ I am virtually unemployable as I am rarely in one place for more than two weeks . |
| 8 | Note that it is possible to use one trap for more than one waste outlet ( with a two-bowl sink , for example ) . |
| 9 | Esther , having thus fulfilled her obligations to her friends , forgot them both instantly , and returned her attention to a volume called The Vegetation of Medieval Europe and a German monograph on Sodoma ; works which she was reading and annotating by her own interleaved system , a system which had evolved from her inability to concentrate fully on any one topic for more than ten minutes . |
| 10 | Special Projects Engineer ( Electrical ) John Nicholls has achieved the increasingly rare distinction of serving one employer for more than fifty years . |
| 11 | Mr Vasarhelyi , who lives in Oakdene Avenue , Darlington , features in the Guinness Book of Stamps with a record-breaking 6,000 designs for more than 120 countries . |
| 12 | Part-time farmer Michael Murray and his wife Elizabeth , from Athlone , Co Westmeath , received two cheques for more than £100,000 after both unintentionally entered the same set of winning numbers . |
| 13 | Design : head torch with two bulbs for long or short light beams . |