Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for a [adj] term " in BNC.
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| 1 | To this was added the promise to privatise British Coal if the Conservatives were re-elected for a fourth term . |
| 2 | Of the Assembly 's members 500 are from the legislative House of Representatives ( Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat , to which 400 were elected for a five-year term by direct universal adult suffrage in April 1987 [ see p. 35326 ] ; the remaining 100 were appointed by the President . |
| 3 | It 's now fifteen months since the Tories were elected for a fourth term and what 've we seen since that election ? |
| 4 | Haygarth Jackson was reappointed for a second term as chairman of Publications and Information Board . |
| 5 | At the last presidential elections , held on Jan. 31-Feb. 1 , 1988 , Mauno Koivisto , the candidate supported primarily by the SSDP , failed to win the required absolute majority but was re-elected for a second term by the electoral college on Feb. 15 [ see pp. 35853-54 ] . |
| 6 | Diouf was re-elected for a second term at the same time . |
| 7 | President : Chaim Herzog was first elected by the Knesset to the largely ceremonial post of President in 1983 ; he was re-elected for a second term in 1988 . |
| 8 | In elections held on March 28-30 , President Robert Mugabe was re-elected for a further term , and his ruling ZANU-PF party won 116 of the 120 elective seats in a restructured 150-member House of Assembly . |
| 9 | The Egyptian Foreign Affairs Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Esmat Abdel Meguid , 68 , was appointed for a five-year term as Secretary-General of the Arab League on May 14 . |
| 10 | The North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) Assembly , comprising legislators from 16 member countries , elected Loïc Bouvard of France as president on Nov. 19 ; Bouvard , 63 , the first Frenchman to hold the post in 33 years , was elected for a two-year term to succeed Charles Rose , a member of the US Congress . |
| 11 | The People 's Assembly , the unicameral legislative body , was elected for a five-year term by direct popular vote . |
| 12 | The President was elected for a five-year term , limited to two consecutive terms . |
| 13 | Ieremia Tabai has been President since independence and was elected for a fourth term on May 12 , 1987 , despite a constitutional prohibition on any individual serving more than three terms in the post . |
| 14 | Chadli was elected for a further term as chairman of the FLN . |
| 15 | Ruslan Khasbulatov , Chairman of the Russian Supreme Soviet , was elected for a one-year term as Chairman of the Assembly , whose seat would be St Petersburg ( Russia ) . |
| 16 | Elections were last held in August 1987 [ see p. 35490 ] , when the ruling coalition was returned for a further term of office . |
| 17 | In 1987 the Conservative Party was returned for a third term . |
| 18 | Geaga stood unsuccessfully on June 8 against the incumbent leader of the Phalangist Party ( also called the Ktaeb ) , George Saadeh , who was returned for a third term as party president . |
| 19 | The ruling Democratic Liberal Party ( DLP ) held a national inauguration convention on May 9 , when President Roh Tae Woo was chosen for a two-year term as party president . |