Example sentences of "and [num] [noun pl] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life must go on , and eight records makes for a tight fit in a 40-minute programme . |
| 2 | Lot number eight Lot eight there we are there it is showing to you , Lot number eight and I 'm offered a hundred pounds to start me on it , one hundred pounds and ten , twenty , one hundred and twenty pounds at a hundred and twenty pounds all s all done at one twenty , one thirty , forty a hundred and forty pounds selling for one hundred and forty pounds , any more at one hundred and forty pounds . |
| 3 | It 's a par three and I 'm assured that it measures more than the hundred and forty yards required for us to be par three . |
| 4 | On a former World War One airfield at Rendcombe in Gloucestershire , 2 pilots and 2 wingwalkers prepared for stunt never before attempted in Britain , exchanging a 7ft baton at 5,000 feet , while one of them hung upside down . |
| 5 | Legislative power is held by a 72-member unicameral National Congress , similarly elected for a four-year term ( with 60 members elected on a provincial basis every two years and 12 members elected for a four-year term on a national basis ) . |
| 6 | And six shares account for 70% of the whole stockmarket 's capitalisation , of $17.3 billion . |
| 7 | A Steiff gold plush Teddy Bear , circa 1910 , only 8½″ high , named Marmaduke , brought £1,200 and wooden Noah 's Ark 29″ long x 18″ high with 16 carved wooden animals and 7 birds went for £1,000 . |
| 8 | His first car was a 1964 Ford Consul which he and three friends bought for £15 , plus an additional £5 for petrol . |
| 9 | The IOC rules require the game to be played in 50 countries and three continents to qualify for Olympic status . |
| 10 | The recipe is enticing : Lee Sharpe on the left , Giggs on the right , Bryan Robson behind them — and three strikers scrapping for the right to cash in . |
| 11 | To help them decide , a new study of 700 retailers and 1,700 consumers produced for the Home Office by London Economics , a consultancy , spells out the likely impact of each choice . |
| 12 | After an emotional seven-hour debate the House amendment was approved by 254 votes to 177 , with 95 Democrats and 159 Republicans voting for the measure and 160 Democrats and 17 Republicans voting against . |
| 13 | Aims were defined , certain statutory regulations laid down and five officers elected for the first three-year term . |
| 14 | Ng ( 1987 ) used daily data for the period 1981–6 on the near contract for the S&P500 and VLCI indices and five currencies to look for Granger causality between spot and futures prices . |
| 15 | Some 67 boys and 38 girls applied for the 14 and Under event with 30 boys and 25 girls for the 11 and Under , sufficient to run two separate tournaments . |
| 16 | In the Senate the proposal was passed by 58 votes to 42 , with 20 Democrats and 38 Republicans voting for and 35 Democrats and seven Republicans voting against . |
| 17 | According to the above agreement the six men , the lad and two boys worked for £30 . |
| 18 | As soon as a post 's routine was established it would be attacked : Sergeant James and two sappers lay for two days watching a post before deciding that breakfast-time was the right moment for such an attack . |
| 19 | Late 19th century setting , and two women vie for a man and a Scottish castle . |
| 20 | GUNMEN in Sierra Leone yesterday killed two nurses and two drivers working for the Red Cross , ICRC staff said . |
| 21 | As well as these large-scale pieces , Mozart wrote a number of light entertainment pieces : unpretentious divertimentos for a small group of wind instruments ( oboes , bassoons and horns ) intended to be played outdoors on a summer evening ; more substantial serenades for string quartet and two horns written for the delectation of Countess Lodron ; a serenade for seven instruments written for Nannerl 's name-day ; the massive ‘ Haffner ’ Serenade for the marriage of Elisabeth Haffner , daughter of a prominent Salzburg merchant ( this also contains a violin concerto , incorporating the famous rondo ) ; and two ‘ echo ’ serenades — the Serenata Notturna for two contrasting groups of instruments , and the Notturno for four groups of strings and horns . |
| 22 | Sessions last 45 minutes , and four instructors cater for a maximum of 24 children in the following groups ; walking to two years , 2–3 years , 3–4 years , 4–5 years . |
| 23 | In Bloomfield Auctions a dining table and four chairs went for £300 while another set comprising a dining table and six chairs made £240 . |
| 24 | And eighteen months working for Alexander Vass would be more like a dozen miserable lifetimes ! |
| 25 | There were 229 new referrals from general practice , most of whom had previously received one or more courses of antibiotic treatment ; 155 existing patients who showed little or no clinical improvement after at least three months ' antibiotic treatment ; and 84 patients sampled for other reasons ( mainly anxiety and screening after treatment with isotretinoin ) . |
| 26 | Finally , Rao in 1991 reported in abstract for a series of 27 and 19 patients followed for three and two years respectively , 7% of which developed cholestasis . |
| 27 | Currently some 28,000 co-operative farms and 2,600,000 ejidatarios accounted for half of all arable land but contributed only a small percentage of gross national income , and much of the country 's food was imported . |