Example sentences of "and [num] [noun] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whichever you know if you take the cost some cost twelve hundred pound for a full page others cost three hundred and fifty and some cost even two hundred and fifty pound for a small strip on the golf cards . |
| 2 | And we 've got you know that is actually a lot lower than it used to be because we they actually caught us charging them three hundred and fifty quid for a bearing that we 're now charging them two hundred and fifty quid for . |
| 3 | And it was six and eight pence for a set of shoes on a |
| 4 | One of my in fact was I can remember , I went up when I was first er paying for paying for an annual ticket with their bus passes and eight pound for a single ticket for us er for our quarterly ticket . |
| 5 | Passages will be dictated at 110 , 120 , 130 and 140 wpm for a period of 5 minutes . |
| 6 | Your working life , for this purpose , is normally considered to be 44 years for a woman and 49 years for a man ( i.e. age 16 until pension age ) , but it may be less if you were of working age but not in insurable employment when the National Insurance Scheme started in 1948 . |
| 7 | Well think , why pay out for a hundred and forty pounds for a suit , when you gon na wear it again ? |
| 8 | He says well I 'm not paying you for it , he says you put it on and it do n't work , he says well we want it back , he says well you take it back and put my parts on that you took off , he says we ca n't , he says well I 'm not paying you hundred and forty pound for a part that do n't work and he says , anyway he says er , are you sure it 's a hundred and forty pound he said , an oil filter cost ten pound at some places but they 're actually only two so if you di divide it by five that 's forty pounds , he says I 'll pay you forty pound , but I 'm not paying you no hundred and forty he said . |
| 9 | A hundred and forty pound for a suit . |
| 10 | During 1990 the Appeal Court upheld prison sentences of 6 years for a confidence trickster who raised barely 1000 , 7 years for a man who obtained 36,000 using fraudulent cheques , and 12 years for a Post Office employee who defrauded his employer of 136,000 ( Guardian 29.8.90 ) . |
| 11 | Passages will be dictated at 70 , 80 , 90 and 100 wpm for a period of 3 minutes . |
| 12 | Thirty-six other lawsuits against 35 National Police officers , three Treasury Police officers , 10 civilians and three judges for a wide range of abuses against street children are reportedly pending in Guatemalan courts . |
| 13 | Many of our comrades in the hotel and catering industry work long and unsocial hours for as little as two ninety two an hour , a hundred and fourteen pound for a thirteen ho thirty nine hour week . |
| 14 | Age Concern believes that the basic state pension should be equal to one third average earnings for a single pension and one half for a couple . |
| 15 | Cadbury 's Roses verdict neat box but too much packaging and they cost a hundred and one P for a hundred grams . |
| 16 | But then when he said two hundred and one pounds for a pension mortgage I thought well if a hundred and ninety |
| 17 | In 1207 the ‘ barons , knights , free tenants and all the men of the rape of Hastings ’ agreed to pay 60 marks and one palfrey for a grant ‘ that they and their heirs should be quit in perpetuity of suits , summonses and pleas of the forest ’ . |
| 18 | Teams score 2 points for a win and 1 point for a 4–4 draw . |
| 19 | TITLE HOLDER John Parrott fired the fastest century break so far — taking just five minutes and 15 seconds for a 103 clearance — as he took a 6–2 lead in his UK Championship quarter-final with Ireland 's Joe Swail . |
| 20 | Passages will be dictated at 50 and 60 wpm for a period of 3 minutes . |
| 21 | In 1906 life expectancy at birth for a male in Britain was 48 years and 51 years for a female ; in 1985 the average expectation of life at birth was 71 and 77 years respectively ( see Figure 3.3 ) . |
| 22 | Yeah , well she was going on about bringing lots of money into the college but she might have to pay two hundred and twenty quid for a barn dance band if she 's not careful . |
| 23 | He used a 3-wood , an 8-iron and two putts for a par 4 at the 1st . |
| 24 | In May the men of Devon agreed to pay the enormous fine of 5,000 marks for the disafforestment of their county outside the bounds of Dartmoor and Exmoor Forests , and the men of ‘ Hertfordlythe ’ ( Hartforth ) in North Yorkshire owed 100 marks and two palfreys for a similar charter in respect of their forest . |
| 25 | Test results shown in the World In Action programme recorded 90 parts per trillion ( ppt ) for a brand of ’ disposable ’ nappies , 130 ppt for a tampon and 400 ppt for a sanitary towel . |