Example sentences of "[num] [conj] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Library membership runs from July 1st of year 1 to December 31st of year 2 and for the 1993/94 year costs £75 . |
| 2 | Although both the OALD and the re-indexed CED produce 70% correct choices , the z-score for the OALD is 2.15 whereas for the CED it is 0.98 . |
| 3 | The ILN commenced publication in 1842 and for the better part of the 19th and early years of the 20th century enjoyed enormous popularity because it was able regularly to reproduce illustrations when the newspapers could not . |
| 4 | Compare these potential losses with the fall due to the recession , estimated by the Henley Centre for Forecasting at 9% in 1990 and a further 6% in 1991 but for the national press at 11% in 1990 and a further 12% in 1991 ( Media Week 8.7.91 — and the recession will be coming to an end by the time any tobacco advertising ban is introduced . |
| 5 | The new trolleybus service was numbered 654 and for the first time there was a through service crossing the main road at West Croydon . |
| 6 | I 'm a widow of 70 and for the past eight years there 's been a very persistent man in my life . |
| 7 | In fact nothing happened during those five months in 1940 except for the odd German plane flying over . |
| 8 | In contrast to the Hong Kong Basic Law , the Macao draft law imposed no restrictions on foreign passport holders taking key posts in Macao after 1999 except for the chief executive who could not gain right of abode in a foreign country during his term of office . |
| 9 | Troubled by a cold and a painful left shoulder , he managed only a 73 and for the third time in four starts missed the cut . |
| 10 | ChemMod II for the Apple Macintosh is also available in a new release — this being fully ‘ System 7 compatible ’ and designed for use with all Macintosh IIs and for the new Macintosh Quadras . |
| 11 | His wife died in 1902 and for the twenty years of his retirement he lived in hotels . |
| 12 | The gallery 's catalogues of its French collections are currently undergoing thorough revision : that for the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries currently dates from 1957 and for the nineteenth from 1970 . |
| 13 | A comparative example provides another good illustration ; in 1959 , we are told , French archives of diplomacy already held more documents for the years since 1914 than for the whole history of French diplomacy backwards from that date to its foundation under Richelieu . |
| 14 | It was entitled Belmont und Constanze , or Die Entführung aus dem Serail ( The Abduction from the Harem ) , and Mozart wrote that he intended to use a ‘ Turkish ’ style of music for the overture , for the chorus in Act I and for the closing chorus . |
| 15 | All the intercepts are significantly greater than zero except for the first sub-period when it is significantly lower than zero . |
| 16 | I 'm 63 and for the past six years I have been taking two tablets each day for myxoedema of the thyroid . |
| 17 | Andrew Beattie was allowed a visit by his wife for a few minutes around half-past one and for the first time he learned that no strike organisers had been arrested other than in the Rathcoole district . |
| 18 | The Gongsters are complete for the 3 years 48–51 except for the first two issues . |
| 19 | As a result of such consultation it is planned that over the period 1989–90 to 1999–2000 there should be an increase in total ( FTE ) graduate numbers of around 700 ( home/EC and overseas ) , a significant proportion of which has already been achieved ; this would allow room for undergraduates to increase by 1,300 and for the overall growth of the University to be contained within the broad policy approved by Congregation of 1 per cent a year to the end of the decade . |
| 20 | The company was formed in 1982 and for the last six years , under the name of Touring Europe , has been mainly involved in taking plays in English to the Continent of Europe . |
| 21 | I am 23 and for the past three years I have been piling on the pounds without realising it until I finally took a good look at myself weighing in at 12st 3lbs ( 77.5kg ) at 5ft 4ins ( 1.6m ) . |
| 22 | The Board of Trade 's official figure for 1892 was 20,000 and for 1893 , 15,000 but for the latter year it may actually have been less , little more than 12,000 . |
| 23 | His two goals helped Vale beat local rivals Stoke for the first time since 1956 and for the first time ever in the FA Cup . |
| 24 | ‘ Then , if we go ahead with the script , they pay , for the treatment … 50.000,00 then for the first draft … 120.000,00 and for the second draft another 120.000,00 making in all , for the script … 290.000,00 |
| 25 | This was held on 16 February 1936 and for the first time in the history of the Second Republic involved an evenly matched contest between large , cohesive left- and right-wing alliances ; the Radical Party virtually disappeared as a significant force , leaving the political centre effectively unrepresented . |
| 26 | The court heard that Ironside had been banned from the roads for two years in May 1990 and for the same period in February 1991 . |