Example sentences of "for [adj] [coord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a meeting on Sunday , the 300 strikers indicated they were prepared to agree to management plans to resolve a dispute over lay-offs , but would return to work under protest at part of the package which included a wage freeze for 1993 and a cut in fringe benefits . |
| 2 | ‘ Mrs Henry Cox ’ , too busy for some but a favourite with many for over a century |
| 3 | The Home Guard became a joke for some and a remark once passed in my company was " What use do you think you would be against trained troops ? " . |
| 4 | Early retirement may be a release from employment for some and a refuge from the severe insecurity of the labour market for others . |
| 5 | As I say I was sitting there adding it up , a pound for this and a pound for that and your meal , a fiver for Maggie , I 'm twenty pound short off you |
| 6 | There were a lot of arguments for this and a lot against . |
| 7 | Powerful material for 1963 but a sample of how the show should have developed its characters to make them more rounded and believable . |
| 8 | It stretches for three and a quarter miles from Leven to the river Hull . |
| 9 | It was estimated for three and a half . |
| 10 | Twenty nine for three and a go |
| 11 | five fo , for three and a go . |
| 12 | Underground cellars may be cool enough for all but a handful of northerly ( ArticBoreal ) species . |
| 13 | List Relationships can list full or partial tight relationships for all or a part of the database . |
| 14 | Needing to score quickly , West Indies made 176 at nearly five an over , despite some fine bowling from Snow , when Lloyd declared with five wickets down , setting England the task of surviving for five and a quarter hours or scoring 339 to win . |
| 15 | Had he come up on the bus with us from Bishop Auckland to Willington , we 'd probably have asked for one and a half . |
| 16 | The ‘ keys ’ or trigger features required to ‘ unlock ’ these two types of cell are rather simple — it is just a matter of applying a small stimulus in the right place , and giving it the correct sign , an increase for one and a decrease for the other . |
| 17 | Among the traditional agricultural tools and implements which remain today , you can see in common use the enchada , a cross between a pick and a hoe which first came to Madeira in 1440 from the Algarve , and also a serrated sickle ( fouce ) for grass-cutting and a kind of pruning hook ( podão ) . |
| 18 | four for two and a go is three . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll sell ye it back for two and a half . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ For two and a half ? ’ |
| 21 | In the time of King Edward it answered for six sulings and now for two and a half , there is arable of seven teams , in demesne , there are three teams and fifteen villians with nine bordari have six teams . |
| 22 | Oh we were in Catterick for two and a half , three years |
| 23 | Debt renegotiation talks during 1989 failed to achieve Venezuela 's target , proposed in July , of a 50 per cent cut in debt-service payments , and negotiations continued on the basis of a proposed 42 per cent reduction in payments for 1990 and a proposal by creditor banks to reschedule $21,200 million of debt over 17 years . |