Example sentences of "[num] [noun sg] [noun] for a " in BNC.
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1 | Dalglish 's mutli-million pound crusade for a Premier League place could come off the rails if his side do not win . |
2 | I recently changed my 1971 Range Rover for a 26,000 miles , high compression engine , 1984 model . |
3 | And the other should be a set six course menu for a business lunch . |
4 | TABLE 10 SAMPLE SCORE-SHEET FOR A HYPERACTIVE CHILD |
5 | Later there came a reprimand for a breach of rules and , not long after , a six month suspension for a further misdemeanour . |
6 | In a few months time we are hoping to start a lunch club in the hall on 2 or 3 days per week , providing a three course lunch for a very small cost . |
7 | Denis and I worked on the show each morning and on our final evening we performed it in ninety degree heat for a deeply moved and even more deeply biased audience of mutual families . |
8 | In fact , in Tanzania in 1984 farmgate prices for a mix of agricultural products using estimated market exchange rates were only 20 per cent of export prices . |
9 | According to Parks official , Dr Mike Kock , the 24 kg of horn cut during the operation could raise $500,000 , sufficient to pay for 650 game scouts for a year . |
10 | Gary Gavin , who 's twenty-four , has been given three life sentences for a series of sex assaults on women , girls and young boys . |
11 | But er a three throw crankshaft for a bump you know couple of days to erm he was a heck of a man . |
12 | Give me a three letter word for a . |
13 | SPORTSWEAR bosses backed the LOSERS when they picked three world stars for a £250,000 Olympic advertising campaign . |
14 | ‘ O ’ : site specific three screen projection for a canal site by Colin Pearce |
15 | The prisoner , Terry Robinson , left Grendon Underwood jail this morning guarded by three prison officers for a routine x-ray at Stoke Mandevill hospital ten miles away . |
16 | Wilson had made National Self-Determination the central plank of his 1916 election campaign for a second term in office . |
17 | A six thousand pound grant for a proggie mat |
18 | On the recommendation of Finance Committee , approval was given to the 1992 revenue budget for a surplus of £77.2K and to capital budget expenditure of £362.8K . |
19 | Labour would again be putting forward its 1992 manifesto plan for a training investment contribution , said Mr McLeish . |
20 | Observations were noted at ten second intervals for a number of old people in four different settings , day centres , day hospitals , geriatric hospital wards and local authority residential homes . |
21 | Others , who of course never used a bank , would pawn a five pound note for a few shillings , with instructions ‘ do n't break the note ’ so they could redeem it still in one piece . |
22 | The total sample was divided into six groups , and each group was asked to choose out of five repayment arrangements for a particular loan ; then , given more information about the terms of the loan , they were given the opportunity of changing their choice . |
23 | Clyde Burgess drew the deepest , 18ft at ten metres from the bank , and alternated between the pole and feeder with maggot , netting nine skimmer bream for a winning total of 4–13–0 . |
24 | The slope of a line is directly analogous to a difference between two proportions : both tell us how much one variable changes for a given change in the other . |
25 | Spectator sports like football are normally zero sum games for a good reason . |
26 | I consider that , for the provision of a service within the meaning of article 59 to be involved in the sea-fishing sector , there must be an operation carried out by a national established in one member state for a recipient established in another member state by means of a fishing vessel registered in the first state . |
27 | If not , the proposal would then be put to the Council of eleven member states for a qualified majority vote . |
28 | Oracle reports TPC-A benchmark results of 605.27 transactions per second on a Sequent Computer Systems Inc Symmetry 2000/750 , simulating 6,050 users for a $10,919 per transaction per second cost ; 560.87 tpsB at a cost of $2,970 per tpsB on a Digital Equipment Corp VAX 6000 Model 660 ; 100.85 tpsB on a Data General Corp AViiON 4635 server for a cost of $1,588 per tpsB ; and 578 tpsA on a Hewlett-Packard Co HP 9000 Corporate Business Server 890 with four processor boards for a cost of $11,901 per tpsA . |
29 | Pinch the edge of the shorts with two cocktail sticks for a gathered elastic effect . |
30 | concrete stairs and , George nearly killed himself on them one morning , but er , and we tried everything to get out of there you know , no one would exchange a two bedroom maisonette for a house and of course I longed for a garden , but , and er George got a job in Hatfield and they offered this three bedroom house The Commission for The New Town , rent was cheaper than here , so we moved over there , but er , as I say we were only there two , three years and we came back again , we were over here , we used to come over here three times a week , when we lived there did n't we ? |