Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was to be the holiday of a life-time and they hoped to be gone for two or three months . |
| 2 | The amount was to be fixed for one year . |
| 3 | Ring John was to be ransomed for 4 million écus to be paid within six months . |
| 4 | Coun. Ray Flowers , chairman of the county highways sub-committee , also welcomed the pedestrianisation scheme , which is to be monitored for 18 months . |
| 5 | High-density seating with many rows fixed in face-to-back mode , together with much more standing room , enabled trains which had previously been formed of three old DMU vehicles to be scheduled for two Sprinter vehicles . |
| 6 | To be repeated for two more days . ’ |
| 7 | May we have a change in our procedure for questioning the Leader of the House who last week announced the business for the following week even though he apparently knows that the election is to be called for 9 April and that the business will therefore be changed ? |
| 8 | ‘ He was told in writing that he was only going to be narrating for five minutes of the video , which is not what happened . |
| 9 | On Oct. 22 , 1990 , he had been ordered to be detained for 60 days in a military camp for sending a letter to Menem warning him that unrest in the army could provoke a " military rebellion " . |
| 10 | A YOUTH who inflicted what a sheriff described yesterday as an appalling gaping face wound on a teenager he slashed was ordered to be detained for 15 months in a young offenders ' institution . |
| 11 | Winston Churchill , MP for Davyhulme , a leading Tory rebel , said : ‘ The report is that the White Paper says that 13 pits are going to be saved for two years and then have the chop . |
| 12 | No battleships were to be built for 10 years ; and the total tonnage of naval ships was to be based on a ratio of 5-5-3 for the USA , Great Britain and Japan , and 1.7 for each of the others . |
| 13 | At Angle in Pembrokeshire the first new slipway and boathouse to be built for 31 years is to be constructed . |
| 14 | Seeing it yesterday for the first time , she had reflected that great tact would have to be employed for two women to share quarters this size . |
| 15 | The review is not expected to be completed for three or four years but initial findings could be implemented by this autumn 's statement on spending . |
| 16 | The precise outcome of these changes will not be known for a little while , but regrettably it will almost certainly result in a lower financial provision for IT and many other areas in the longer term , and quite probably a significant lower level of commitment to new grants in all areas in the current academic session , since the sharpest adjustment needs to be made for 1991/92 . |
| 17 | Obviously the maid was disguised in view of the fact that we were known to be looking for two women travelling together . |
| 18 | Because of the division of labour , work soon became the perpetual repetition of a simple task , or the minding of a machine ; such work often had to be done for fourteen hours a day , six days a week , and there were no special provisions for the women and very young children who were considered especially suitable for work in the textile industries . |
| 19 | ( For example , CCC means that candidates are liable to be asked for three ‘ A ’ levels at grade C. ) |
| 20 | The applicant may apply for a United Kingdom patent , a European patent to be granted for three or more countries under the European Patent Convention or a " world-wide " patent for one or more of the member countries under the Patent Co-operation Treaty . |
| 21 | He could get enough purchase to be selected for 68 first-grade VFL matches with Footscray around the war years . |
| 22 | In the end , areas were to be selected for three years ( at NUTS Level III ) according to the following conditions : an unemployment rate higher by at least 15 per cent than the EC average during the previous three years , and industrial employment as a percentage of total employment greater than the EC average in every year of the previous fifteen years . |
| 23 | In more and more instruments , the law of one price is free to apply : close financial substitutes are allowed to be swapped for one another , so trading ( arbitrage , in the argot ) can ensure that they fetch the same price . |
| 24 | In 1301 Boniface VIII ordered a tenth to be levied for three years ; in 1305 Clement V imposed a septennial tenth upon the clergy . |
| 25 | The project was to be funded for one year with money from the Telethon Trust , which paid for the author 's post , that of development worker , as well as allowing a substantial budget ; the overall aim was to establish a leisure service for disabled people within the Northern Health Region . |
| 26 | They got to be stored for thirty two hours . |
| 27 | Money borrowed from a pawnbroker did not have to be repaid for fifteen months . |
| 28 | The film had to be stopped for seven minutes , during which one man shouted through a loud-hailer , ‘ We , the National Front , protest against this anti-British rubbish , especially at the time of El Alamein . ’ |
| 29 | A verdict of guilty required the sentence to be delayed for twenty-four hours . |
| 30 | The conclusive Senate vote was scheduled for Oct. 8 , but had to be delayed for seven days following revelation of new evidence from Anita Hill , 35 , a black University of Oklahoma teacher of law , who alleged that Thomas had subjected her to sexual harassment with explicit , pornographic suggestions when she worked for him at the Department of Education and the EEOC in the early 1980s . |