Example sentences of "be [verb] [verb] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Batch processes are designed to cater for five times as many entries as are currently stored in tables . |
| 2 | Trials are expected to continue for three months . |
| 3 | In 1987 school fees rose by an average of 11 per cent as compared with an inflation rate of 4.1 per cent , but despite higher fees the independent schools are growing by about 6,000 pupils a year , and by the end of the century they are expected to account for 8.5 per cent of the school population . |
| 4 | — The supergroup Six of the Best is so popular at Seaham 's Westlea Social Club that they have been booked to appear for three nights as part of the club 's 39th birthday celebrations on June 12 , 13 and 14 . |
| 5 | In February 1952 , The Musical Express bade farewell to its readers with a final issue that blazed proudly on its cover ‘ Tommy Dorsey For Olympic Games ’ , the accompanying story telling of how bandleader Dorsey and his orchestra had been booked to play for four hours daily at the games in Finland that summer . |
| 6 | Here your training intensity is such that you are pushed to work for one minute , let alone the 20 required for aerobic training ! |
| 7 | This year they 're going to go for four thousand . |
| 8 | Erm oh we 'll they 're going to go for twenty P plus cost of the stamped addressed return envelope |
| 9 | But just a minor point , erm if we 're going to settle for one third the job initially , is that going to improve the bollards to the front and rear ? |
| 10 | Er ours is a slightly more difficult task , I would suggest a much more difficult task , in that we 're trying to go for one certificate for the whole of the group . |
| 11 | COMPANIES wanting to break into the vast Russian consumer market have been told to cater for five distinct groups with very different tastes : Kuptsi , Cossacks , Students , Businessmen and Russian Souls . |
| 12 | The ANC and the government are scheduled to meet for two days from Monday to finalise arrangements for the planning conference and to refine details of their bilateral agreements on transitional rule . |
| 13 | Specimens have been known to live for 10 years and more . |
| 14 | PHONE bills are set to fall for four years in a row from next August , it was announced yesterday . |
| 15 | ‘ It would be wrong for water users in the next five to ten years to be asked to finance the whole cost of projects which have been neglected in the past and which may be expected to last for 30 , 50 or even 100 years . |
| 16 | Having carefully considered all the alternatives it was decided that our staff would be invited to apply for one secondment to explore the area of school industry links , with an emphasis on the development of a partnership . |
| 17 | It 's cos I ca n't be arsed to go for one stamp . |
| 18 | Recruits will be asked to work for two or three hours a week at Hugh Baird 's Oriel Road adult learning centre . |
| 19 | Maria replied that she was to be allowed to come for two days in the week following her letter . |
| 20 | Disabled people parking before 10.30 would also be allowed to stay for three hours . |
| 21 | From next season , players will be allowed to sign for two Saturday clubs and one Sunday club . |
| 22 | ( Anyone who suggests another committee should be sent to serve for twelve months on the company 's welfare , safety or canteen committee ! ) |
| 23 | Once removed from the courte bouillon , the fillets are left to rest for four minutes . |
| 24 | In his view it was disgusting that the union had been forced to battle for four years to win the day . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Publishers are also being invited to pay for four or five copies of a magazine to be lined up against each other along a shelf , so the title appears to be a fast seller — a common US practice . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |