Example sentences of "for every [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For every five hours we spent hugger-mugger over The Dark Side of the Moon , we spent ten minutes listening to Kung Fu Fighting by Carl Douglas . |
| 2 | The snow machine costs £70 to hire and £15 for every five litres it spews out . |
| 3 | The prisoners are allowed out of their cells from around 5.30 in the morning until 6.30 in the evening , during which time a majority of them would be involved in some type of work ; this is because for every two days they work they can earn one day 's remission of sentence . |
| 4 | A single female paying level premiums , she would actually get twenty four thousand , six hundred and thirty pounds life cover for every ten pounds she 's got to spend . |
| 5 | Er , she gets that for every ten pounds she 's got to spend , so you multiply it by three point eight , yes ? |
| 6 | The bottom half of the page is how much she gets for every ten pounds she 's got to spend , but before we find out she 's got to spend , what we 've got to do is take off the policy fee . |
| 7 | Thirty four , seven , two , two , and that 's for every ten pounds she 's got to spend . |
| 8 | If you look at any page , you 'll see the bottom part of the page will tell you how much life assurance he can get for every ten pounds he 's got to spend . |
| 9 | For every ten pounds you spend you get three bucks . |
| 10 | If , as they fervently hope , Waqar Younis has recovered sufficiently from the stress fracture in his back to bowl as he did in taking 113 first-class wickets last season at a cost of 14 each — a wicket for every 30 balls he bowled — and Imran 's shoulder injury permits him , after all , to play as more than just a batsman-captain , theirs will be a fast bowling attack as strong , at least on paper , as any the West Indies had during the 16 years of world supremacy which came to an end here last summer . |
| 11 | For example , for every three children you help us immunise with your gift , your Covenant will make it possible to immunise one more — and quite possibly save another life . |
| 12 | At a meeting of the Cairngorm Club he told a hushed audience ‘ For every few steps I took I heard a crunch as if someone was walking after me but taking steps three or four times the length of my own . |