Example sentences of "[vb past] for the [num ord] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Il Moro led for the first two legs , New Zealand showed her fearsome ability to climb to windward when she squeezed up from underneath Il Moro to take the lead at the third mark . |
| 2 | Here we lived for the next fifteen years , with the eighteenth-century kirk across the road , and from my study window at the front a clear thirty-mile view across the Tweed valley to the distant Cheviots . |
| 3 | A movement was born that provided for the next four years the reference point for the left , and for artists and what passed for Britain 's Beats . |
| 4 | Early in 1989 his book , A Brief History of Time , toppled my autobiography from No 1 to No 2 on the best-seller list , which positions we retained for the next 13 weeks . |
| 5 | He was at once promoted to lance-corporal but although Travis [ Commander Edward Travis who was chief administrator at B.P. ] tried for the next six months to find a suitable military unit to which Harold could be attached as an officer , he had no luck . |
| 6 | Little is known of Francis Wright 's early years , but in 1830 , on the retirement of his father , he became the senior partner in Butterley , which he dominated for the next forty-three years . |
| 7 | Though Celtic dominated for the next 15 minutes they failed to kill Dundee off and almost paid the penalty . |
| 8 | Instead he served for the next three yearswith a merchant shipping company . |
| 9 | Sister was then transferred to Wythenshawe , and worked for the last 13 years on the chaplaincy team of Wythenshawe Hospital . |
| 10 | In 1837 he was apprenticed to his uncle James S. Stirling at Dundee foundry , where he worked for the next six years and where some locomotives were built for the Arbroath and Forfar Railway which influenced his own later designs . |
| 11 | His chances of defending a frail total of 226 slipped away with the steady rain that fell for the last two hours . |
| 12 | The broad measure , M3 , grew by only 1% in the 12 months to December , and actually fell for the last three months of 1990 . |
| 13 | My hands were cold , gloved as they were , and though I wore a jersey , jacket and jeans , I shivered for the first ten minutes . |
| 14 | Edward cried for the next two days , but there was nothing he could do . |
| 15 | As I understand it the Cleveland structure plan proposes the same number of dwellings for erm its next period which happens to be fourteen years , as it did for the last fourteen of the of the previous structure plan , fifteen thousand seven hundred . |
| 16 | Their heyday lasted for the first five years of the Eighties , when they scored the incredible total of 20 consecutive Top 20 hits . |
| 17 | Sporadic firing and the misery of Joseph 's people continued for the next two days . |
| 18 | In 1724 Peter I ordered that all papers relating to foreign policy should be brought together in the college archive ; and work on this continued for the next two decades . |
| 19 | The sum of£3 8s 6d was raised in this way , and the practice continued for the next eighty years . |
| 20 | For example , in his chemistry exam John wrote for the first three answers blank , ether and litmus test . |
| 21 | One was quite hot and spicy but I 'd forgotten what we had for the first two the two that they brought out . |
| 22 | She was living with her boyfriend as she had for the last eight years and the hospital team were quite happy to talk to him about the proposed care plan for her . |
| 23 | The Gould machine was set like clockwork to continue ticking as methodically for the next two years as it had for the last eight . |
| 24 | For some reason , no one knew why , he had for the last four months taken to sleeping in the south porch . |
| 25 | Professor Pearn and I had for the last ten years been interchangeably secretary and editor of the Burma Research Society , and when we discovered that the Society 's bank had been able to get our balance safely into India before the break-up , we conceived the plan of a series of Burma Pamphlets , describing various aspects of the national life . |
| 26 | This venture laid the foundations for the Hull Arctic whaling trade , which prospered for the next sixty years . |
| 27 | Fred , of Fence Houses , County Durham , said : ‘ We queued for the last three weeks and left empty handed . |
| 28 | The train braked to a shuddering halt at the Paisley signal box where it remained for the next thirty minutes whilst the driver and guard proceeded to examine the underside and topside of the train . |
| 29 | The A&R depts that we dealt with when last I was in a band ( about 18 months ago ) all seemed to consist of young men in Armani suits and long raincoats , who only stayed for the first four numbers then left . |
| 30 | In 1938 he was elected president of the International Youth Hostel Federation , an office which he held for the next twelve years . |