Example sentences of "[n mass] [adj] [art] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jeffrey Sachs , a Harvard economist who has advised the Polish government , has suggested that an aid package of $30 billion a year for five years might be in order . |
| 2 | FoE made a number of recommendations on taxes , incentives and greater spending on research ( including the government 's Energy Efficiency Office , which , remarkably , given the nature of the times , saw its budget restricted to £15 million a year for two years in succession — a loss in real terms ) . |
| 3 | However , it is believed to be in the region of £15 million a year for the world-wide rights , plus a percentage of profits over and above that figure . |
| 4 | I repeat that if one adds to that the £40 million from the foundation , the £20 million a year for football and the £1 million that I found for the champion coaching scheme , it is clear that our commitment to sport is greater than anyone 's . |
| 5 | And so the wish-lists of Arran , Cumbrae , Cowal , the rest of Argyll and west Moray — where the Highland MEP , Winnie Ewing , has a home — will have to wait until June , when the heavily lobbied council of ministers finally approve — or not — what could be more than £20 million a year for the Highlands and Islands . |
| 6 | I have found this quite revealing — £28 000 a year for geriatric NHS long stay and over £30 000 a year for psychogeriatric long stay . |
| 7 | The church tax reaps a handsome £5 billion a year for the Protestant and Catholic Churches and the Jewish community , or about two-thirds of their total income . |
| 8 | What Delors had in mind was aid worth £10 billion a year for ten years . |
| 9 | Sony will pay Streisand about £1.2 million a year for an estimated 10 years to develop projects through her film company . |
| 10 | ‘ It is projected to average £33 billion annually to the turn of the century and grow to £45 billion a year for the first decade of the new century . |
| 11 | The formation of a National Maritime Board was announced on 23 November 1917 and standard wages for seamen announced six days later , recommending to the Shipping Controller £pound11 10s a month for able seamen and £pound12 for firemen , with proportionate increases for petty officers and seamen on weekly articles , backdated to 6 October . |
| 12 | If FTC 's bid does guarantee UEFA a minimum of £15 million a year , it will work out at £1.25 million a game for the 12 matches in the eight-club , mini-league series , an experiment in making money that is certain to be continued next season , Premier League clubs will be glad to know . |
| 13 | Wales , Scotland and Northern Ireland continue to enjoy annual funding at around £15 million each — but in England , which receives approximately 90 per cent of the volume and value of tourism , Government seems set on a course of pruning ETB 's grant from around £9 million currently to only £2 million a year for national activities by 1995/96 . |
| 14 | Ask the same people all the time for help or money . |
| 15 | , The UN Secretariat has come up with a figure of $165 billion a year for saving the world 's environment . |
| 16 | The financial consequences for Caltech have been very significant : by the early 1960s it was receiving $1¼ million a year for administering JPL . |
| 17 | In Andrews Brothers ( Bournemouth ) Ltd v Singer and Co Ltd [ 1934 ] 1 KB 17 a contract for the sale of a " new Singer car " included a provision that " all conditions , warranties and liabilities implied by statute common law or otherwise are excluded " . |
| 18 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 19 | It expressed the feelings of many with its claim : " In moral terms we are creditors ; and for that we shall pay $140 million a year for the rest of the twentieth century . " |
| 20 | The churches fulfil a valuable social function which the government would otherwise have to meet , and the state receives about £100 million a year for levying and passing on the church tax . |
| 21 | I have found this quite revealing — £28 000 a year for geriatric NHS long stay and over £30 000 a year for psychogeriatric long stay . |
| 22 | The average salary for the nearly 700 players on the 26 teams tops $1 million a year for the first time . |
| 23 | ‘ POWER to the people ’ is the secret behind a team-based improvement exercise which could save up to $1 million a year for one of Courtaulds ' leading US businesses . |