Example sentences of "[num] [pron] were [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eighty-nine lots were sold for a total of £1.55 million , with a further sixty-three lots failing to find buyers . |
| 2 | Fifty-eight lots were sold for $16.1 million ( £10.73 million ) , with fourteen other lots left without buyers . |
| 3 | By section 6 they were offered for sale if they were ‘ exposed for supply ’ ( see paragraph 16–12 above ) . |
| 4 | The Leeward Islands had tried to ignore Carlisle 's lieutenant-governor as early as the 1630s , and when the islands became royal colonies in the 1660s they were treated for a short time as separate communities , with each island being regarded as an individual colony . |
| 5 | Among women under 65 who were caring for more than twenty hours a week , only 40 per cent were employed , compared with 62 per cent of women generally ( Green , 1988 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ The four who were suspended for a year in 1984 after the demos during the Miners ’ Strike . |
| 7 | We were we were not looking for an exception to policy E two we were looking for a policy which complements erm I five . |
| 8 | It justified this decision by boasting a stronger and more interesting group of works in a larger auction in which 169 lots were sold for £1.57 million ( $2.32 million ) , with only twenty-three lots failing to find buyers . |
| 9 | ‘ In the late 1980s we were looking for somewhere to produce a whole stream of new products , ’ said managing director of Glaxo Developments Alan Catterall . |
| 10 | In 1653 they were fined for ‘ … not impounding the hogs which have turned up in divers places ’ . |