Example sentences of "[coord] for the [adj] [num] " in BNC.

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1 Members can also choose how long they wish to stay at the ‘ weekend ’ , whether for just a morning or afternoon or for the whole day-and-a-half .
2 Yet neither at this stage nor for the next eighteen months did he have any clear plans to launch a full-scale attack on the church or to break with Rome .
3 Neither then nor for the next four days .
4 For a further 20 per cent , the gap was between one month and six months and for the remaining 5 per cent it was over six months .
5 He was cared for by his mother , who survived him , and for the remaining thirty years of his life roamed the neighbourhood aimlessly , he and his theory totally forgotten .
6 They found that 161 of the children were admitted , and for the remaining 200 children the initial decision was that they should not come into care although subsequently a significant proportion did .
7 For 347 ( 87% ) this matching was done 3 years after surgery and for the remaining 53 it was 2 years after surgery .
8 That way , you only make the effort to prepare and cook the meal once , and for the other three meals you just pull something out of the freezer and heat it up .
9 Two two three , the new highway schemes may provide major development opportunities and for the two thousand and six town plan , the county will allocate sites which could benefit from new road access .
10 Tonight and for the following two nights we are privileged to welcome a quintet of American musicians specially brought together for the Guinness Spot in association with Frank Tate .
11 It was as if all that we had done … had been a school and a preparation both for that first day in which I suddenly knew how to make one-step dry photographic process and for the following three years in which we made the very vivid dream into a solid reality .
12 It now formed a terminus and for the final two miles to Bishop 's Castle the train had to reverse .
13 Most lived alone in isolated outposts with the nearest countryman a day or two of travel away , and for the first hundred years there was no telegraph or railroad .
14 And for the first five years of my life , I just led a very lonely life with only the my grandmother and my parents and the farm men .
15 Moreover , foreign policy dictated caution ; with France and Scotland in alliance , she could not immediately break with Spain , and for the first four months of her reign the watching world was asked to believe in her willingness to contemplate marriage with her late sister 's husband , Philip II .
16 In the immediate neighbourhood of The Milebrook were few families except for the local farmers , and for the first four years there we had no transport other than bicycles and a pony cart .
17 Lipson and colleagues subsequently report ( May 22 , p 1352 ) from Australia a girl born with multiple congenital defects to a mother , who before conception and for the first 5 weeks of gestation , had used a topical liquid preparation of 0.05% tretinoin in 45% alcohol .
18 In fact , Los Angeles scared him a little and for the first six months he barely ventured out of the house alone .
19 Special educational needs was always a much more prominent aspect of the work of Phase 1 coordinators than of those in Phases 2 or 3 , and for the first three years of PNP SEN was the dominant coordinator task in Phase 1 .
20 There was a rapid improvement in pH and PaCO 2 for the NIPPV group , and for the first 3 days they were less short of breath than the control group .
21 Now , Eleanor Thorne was eighty-nine years old , and her conversation was erratic , but Dorothea still sat with her , and for the odd fifteen or twenty minutes , and sometimes as long as an hour , they would talk , as they had always done and the present world swung temporarily into focus for the old lady , and she held on to it , like a crystal ball , firmly in her hand .
22 The new Headmaster was Mr. Christopher Herman Gilkes , an Oxford graduate and for the previous six years a Housemaster at Uppingham .
23 The words ’ public service ’ are , and for the past 13 years have been , anathema to Conservative Members .
24 I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising .
25 And for the past two years he has been holed up in London .
26 Her paternal family is opposed to the sect and some years before these events Miss T. had been reunited with her paternal grandmother and her father and for the past two years she had been living in circumstances which would not be approved by the sect .
27 He had been trained in England , at Sandhurst , and for the past fifteen years he had been an officer in the Imperial Guard .
28 The welfare of these hens has been a controversial issue for many years , and for the past five years we in the Department of Animal Husbandry have been conducting research into ways of improving their welfare .
29 Another interest is the light railways of France and for the past six years his holidays have been spent exploring them .
30 I 'm 63 and for the past six years I have been taking two tablets each day for myxoedema of the thyroid .
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