Example sentences of "the [noun sg] for [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Macbeth ran at the Shield for a hundred and fifty nights , the longest record in the play 's history . |
| 2 | ‘ Well I am partial to a bit of Severn salmon , ’ Bert continued , ‘ if you promise me that next half tidy salmon that comes your way , you can have the bike for a hundred and fifty . |
| 3 | His idea of a millionaire 's treat was to take his first wife , Hope Hancock , to the cinema for the 11 o'clock morning show . |
| 4 | at that meeting Britain had provided the winner for the 60 metres in Barrie Kelly . |
| 5 | Well there 's the fact that he might have borrowed the money for a ten million pound project , and he ca n't have a use of it because it 's named and he 's paying interest |
| 6 | So we took the money for the two gigs and left them there . |
| 7 | ‘ Country Sports and Conservation : The case for the 1990s ’ , Shooting News |
| 8 | It was clear that Alistair Bruce and John Moir would have to devote their entire time to preparing the case for the four families . |
| 9 | So we always this has always been the case for the four five hundred years that people have been doing etching , so they go by a rule of thumb . |
| 10 | The field for the 1986 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe was the strongest the race had offered for years , adding up to the most valuable collection of bloodstock ever assembled fur a single race in Europe . |
| 11 | I asked Frank Dick , the Director of Coaching , about this but all he said was that the field for the 60 metres had been chosen ( by him , as it turned out ) . |
| 12 | A spokesman for the consortium lead firm , HDW in Kiel , confirmed that the contract for the two 1,550-tonne diesel-powered submarines had been signed . |
| 13 | It was announced that AMK , the Passfield based company , have retained the contract for the 250 Service known as the Liphook Shuttle and will continue to operate the current timetable . |
| 14 | The time taken by the cyclist for the six and a half mile journey from Currie to the City Chambers was thirty minutes , making an average speed of 13 mph . |
| 15 | It does n't seem like it if you consider some of the most recent press reports : endless bickering about which London group will bid for the Olympics in the year 2000 ; the decision for the 1992 Games not to allow the slower marathoners to finish in the stadium because they will interfere with the closing ceremony ; Charlie Francis 's cynical opinion that most of the world 's top athletes are on drugs . |
| 16 | The excuse for the 1928 ‘ infirmary pie ’ was to raise £1,000 to endow in perpetuity a bed at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary , but to many people it was really a somewhat belated celebration of the end of the 1914–18 war . |
| 17 | The final week of the term entails tutorials where specific guidance is given in the planning of work to support the preparation for the four week school practice . |
| 18 | I think Wilko also lays most of the responsibility for the 2 goals with Beeny … without actually seeing the goals its hard to comment . |
| 19 | Ronald Reagan is elected President — following Margaret Thatcher 's victory in Britain the previous year , right-wing dominance in the West for the 1980s is assured . |
| 20 | The deficit for the 1990 underwriting year is expected to soar to £2.4 billion , after £2 billion of losses were suffered in 1989 . |
| 21 | Provisional figures published by the Central Statistical Office showed the deficit for the three months to the end of March was £4.5bn , compared with £4.35bn the previous quarter . |
| 22 | Provisional figures published by the Central Statistical Office yesterday showed the deficit for the three months to the end of March was £4.5bn compared with £4.35bn the previous quarter . |
| 23 | Fully saturated colours , interestingly , tended to be at the red end of the spectrum for the six subjects involved in this study , and only rarely were saturated blues , purples or blue-greens reported . |
| 24 | The budget for the 1989/90 financial year which began on July 1 , 1989 , included a planned 4.4 per cent increase in expenditure to KD3,549,100,000 , made possible by an expected 8.6 per cent rise in revenues to KD2,230,500,000 . |
| 25 | The budget for the 1990/91 financial year ( starting July 1 , 1990 ) was approved by official decree on June 30 [ see p. 37429 for details of 1989/90 budget ] . |
| 26 | This calls for high levels of skill in design and production and the necessity for the two functions to co-operate to produce an optimum result . |
| 27 | This calls for high levels of skill in design and production and the necessity for the two functions to co-operate to produce an optimum result . |
| 28 | Mr. Leonard Coote was elected President of the Association for a two year term at the Biennial Delegate Conference in succession to Mr. Andy Heffernan . |
| 29 | She put by the rent for the six weeks , and laid out everything for the bills — she usually pays £6 a week for gas , £2.68 newspapers , £2 club for her son 's clothes , £30 for food , £2.75 for school dinners in term time . |
| 30 | One variation on that would be to increase the constituency share according to the national increase in membership — so constituencies would have 30 per cent of the vote on a membership of 300,000 ( as now ) but would get an extra 1 per cent of the vote for every 30,000 increase in national membership . |