Example sentences of "and for the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | And for the second successive year , the St Helens based group is forced to cut its dividend . |
2 | The price for the first seems high and for the second low for a house with six acres and a lodge , but it used to be the headquarters of British Coal 's opencast mining subsidiary , which can not have done it any good . |
3 | and for the second lowest quintile it is 19 per cent . |
4 | Either English for Business ( Second Level ) or English for Commerce ( Second Level ) must be passed for the Second Level Business Studies Certificate award and for the Second Level Group Certificate in Shorthand and typewriting award . |
5 | Most lived alone in isolated outposts with the nearest countryman a day or two of travel away , and for the first hundred years there was no telegraph or railroad . |
6 | And for the first five years of my life , I just led a very lonely life with only the my grandmother and my parents and the farm men . |
7 | Moreover , foreign policy dictated caution ; with France and Scotland in alliance , she could not immediately break with Spain , and for the first four months of her reign the watching world was asked to believe in her willingness to contemplate marriage with her late sister 's husband , Philip II . |
8 | In the immediate neighbourhood of The Milebrook were few families except for the local farmers , and for the first four years there we had no transport other than bicycles and a pony cart . |
9 | Lipson and colleagues subsequently report ( May 22 , p 1352 ) from Australia a girl born with multiple congenital defects to a mother , who before conception and for the first 5 weeks of gestation , had used a topical liquid preparation of 0.05% tretinoin in 45% alcohol . |
10 | In fact , Los Angeles scared him a little and for the first six months he barely ventured out of the house alone . |
11 | Special educational needs was always a much more prominent aspect of the work of Phase 1 coordinators than of those in Phases 2 or 3 , and for the first three years of PNP SEN was the dominant coordinator task in Phase 1 . |
12 | He 'd been making some records but they were n't successful and for the first few weeks after I 'd met him and decided to work with him , I was listening to songs that he 'd written , and was in the process of writing , and came to the conclusion that he was not essentially a singles artist . |
13 | So he decides to be cautious and for the first few laps , he just sits and waits . |
14 | With Lindsey 's Corsair being the only one of its type in Europe , airshow organisers had to approach him if they wanted a Corsair in their flying display , and for the first few years John Allison and Lindsey flew all over Europe with the aircraft . |
15 | The teachers were very helpful and caring , and for the first few days I thought I was getting on quite well with my new classmates . |
16 | Throughout the field investigation there will obviously be exchanges of information between the engineering , operational , flight recorder and pathological investigators , and for the first few days at least there will be regular meetings for mutual consultation at the end of each day 's work . |
17 | For many years , both in the days of glassfibre and for the first few years of plastic , there was little variety in the shape of boats in general recreational use . |
18 | He had his eyes closed , and for the first few moments Belinda kept hers open , so she could see in extreme close-up the blurred crescents of his dark lashes resting on the smoothly tanned skin of his cheeks . |
19 | There was a rapid improvement in pH and PaCO 2 for the NIPPV group , and for the first 3 days they were less short of breath than the control group . |
20 | studied chartered accountancy at the Oxford Polytechnic and for the last 18 months has worked for a local chartered accountant . |
21 | The company was formed in 1982 and for the last six years , under the name of Touring Europe , has been mainly involved in taking plays in English to the Continent of Europe . |
22 | Charly Herscovici , who formerly assisted Georgette Magritte and for the last six years has managed the painter 's copyright and droit morale , explained how this could have come about . |
23 | Incidentally , the 2nd Duke of Montrose ( 1712–1790 ) was also deaf , unable to speak , and for the last thirty years of his life from 1760 onwards , totally blind as well and needed an interpreter for even everyday communication with his wife . |
24 | Although based in Cardiff , the Welsh National Opera tours extensively , and for the last twelve years has had a regular season in London too . |
25 | I am 59 years of age and for the last fourteen years I have had curly perms . |
26 | The whole festival is heavily dependent on sponsorship and for the last five years it has successfully attracted and maintained a number of business sponsors both locally and nationally . |
27 | And for the last five years he had been doing just that . |
28 | As an example , if there is a gain on the sale of a property owned equally for fifteen years , occupied for the first ten years by both husband and wife and for the last five years by only the wife , there is complete exemption on the one-half share occupied by the wife throughout , and a chargeable gain to the extent of two-fifteenths of the gain on the other half ( the chargeable years being the five years after occupation had ceased less the 36 months ) . |
29 | SIDT 's initial start-up funding and training support came from the Foundation for the Peoples of the South Pacific ( FSP ) and for the last four years , the UK Foundation ( FSP/UK ) , based in Edinburgh , has been raising money for SIDT throughout Europe . |
30 | Two years later he became Leader of the House of Commons , and for the last two years of the Labour government presided over the empire of the Department of Health and Social Services . |