Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the original crews were expected to volunteer for 45 sorties : by and large this meant in effect that each PFF crew would start a full Bomber Command tour of about 31 ) sorties . |
| 2 | Occupations such as these were expected to account for three-quarters of the net job growth in this period , and employers were advised to look beyond their traditional " preferred " groups when recruiting . |
| 3 | This has since been supported by an important report from the Battelle Institute in Geneva which broadly suggests that if products such as cars or powerpacks were designed to last for 20 years not only would energy and materials be conserved , but about 65 per cent more work would be created and the jobs would be the interesting , fiddling , diagnostic type jobs that human beings love doing . |
| 4 | So that 's variance of reproductive er success and I mentioned I think last week , I anyway , the most extreme examples of this which is elephant seals where in once again a similar population to this , a closely studied population in California , five percent of the males were found to account for ninety five percent of the offspring in one season . |
| 5 | No sex differences were found in the rate of problems but the difficulties were found to persist for one year in about two-thirds of these children and to persist for over five years in about one-third . |
| 6 | Method : Stains were left to dry for 24 hours ( old stains are the most stubborn ) . |
| 7 | When in 1859 nine of the most upright miners from Seaton Delaval — ‘ every man a teetotaller , six of them Primitive Methodists , and two of the six local preachers ’ — were sent to jail for two months after a strike which they had opposed , the mine manager was quite clear on this point . |
| 8 | They were kept waiting for four hours before being given clearance to cover the Match of The Century ( starring Paul Gascoigne ) . |
| 9 | ‘ One Saturday we were kept waiting for TWO MINUTES for Science Now on Radio 4 which then ran its full 30 minutes . |
| 10 | The intermediary stage was intended to last for three to five years . |
| 11 | In Xian , a similar demonstration was reported lasting for three days with some violence . |
| 12 | Perhaps most alarmingly of all from a Russian point of view , the population of these republics had been increasing very much more rapidly than the all-union average and on some projections was expected to account for 25–30 per cent of the total Soviet population by the end of the century ( the USSR was already the world 's fifth largest Muslim state ) . |
| 13 | The foreign trade growth rate was forecast to reach 18.8 per cent , of which the growth in exports was expected to account for 36 per cent and commercial imports 13.2 per cent . |
| 14 | A typical locust swarm can easily contain 40 thousand million individuals and the record swarm — one that was said to stretch for 2,000 miles — was estimated at about 250 thousand million insects . |
| 15 | I know sometimes erm people when they got their benefit , would try and do shopping for two weeks , but even that was unrealistic of how long they were , what they were buying was going to last for two weeks . |
| 16 | But he said he was going to ask for two . |
| 17 | Sir Peter was scheduled to sign for one hour , but gave way to popular demand and stayed for three . |
| 18 | However , at Rigby 's instance , the Royal Navy afforded Majid the necessary support and the insurrection failed , Barghash being sent to Bombay where he was compelled to remain for eighteen months . |
| 19 | Colin Moorfields , 41 , was forced to drive for two hours after the 28-year-old , armed with a 6in knife , said : ‘ Mess up and I will slit your throat and then mine . |
| 20 | Five ml of H 2 O were added to the resin incubated mix , this was left to settle for 10 minutes , and 4 ml of supernatant was removed and examined for the presence of 1 4 C-citrulline by liquid scintillation counting . |
| 21 | Her husband Alex , 45 , who was left to care for four children aged four to 17 , said after the verdict : ‘ He is a lucky man . |
| 22 | I was meant to talk for fifteen minutes but I went on for three-quarters of an hour . |
| 23 | The name of the Association remained a divisive issue within the deaf community and its hearing supporters , but the issue was allowed to smoulder for eighty years until the Delegates Conference in 1960 put the matter back on the agenda with a suggestion that the words " and dumb " should be omitted from the title of the Association . |
| 24 | Bile flow was allowed to stabilise for two hours before intracerebroventricular injection of neuropeptide Y or control was given . |
| 25 | Likewise , there was unity of time in that each of their interests arose simultaneously and was expressed to endure for six months . |
| 26 | So before you 're about to criticise the Spectrum , ask yourself this question : if I did n't have a computer and I was trying to look for one and I only had enough money for the Spectrum , what would I do ? |
| 27 | There was covered seating for 4,000 invited guests and a grandstand with a royal box extended into the arena from the middle of one side . |
| 28 | Furthermore , he was elected to serve for 48 months , of which barely 5 have elapsed . |
| 29 | Today , Tobin was sent to jail for 18 months by Judge Peter Fanner ; a sentence described by the club 's current president as just deserts . |
| 30 | He was sent to jail for three years ) |