Example sentences of "for [adv] [num] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Clinch ( 83 ) and Paul Harris ( 82 ) put on 170 for the first wicket against Stowmarket , who were skittled out for only 85 thanks to a burst of 4–1–7–5 by Richard Pybus . |
| 2 | A white cow used to provide milk for everyone in the locality , but it was customary for only one pailful to he taken . |
| 3 | In the 16 years in which we have had our part of the legislation , we have applied for only 31 people to be tried in the Republic , of whom only 16 were convicted and the Irish Republic has not applied for any such cases at all . |
| 4 | It was only then , for example , that John Bright , busy Member of Parliament , revealed that his stepmother , who had lived alone as a widow for nearly thirty years to the age of 95 , the last ten years blind , was visited daily by his own wife ‘ to chat with her and to cheer with her in her solitude and blindness , or to render her any help in her power . ’ |
| 5 | I have been married for nearly twenty-five years to a very nice kind Englishman . |
| 6 | For one thing , a plan based only on the rebate probably needs to run for about five years to be practical , otherwise the charges will eat up too much of the benefits . |
| 7 | I am trying very hard to find new work , but I expect you see in the papers that many jobs are made redundant — mine was ‘ cut up ’ for about seven people to each do some more . |
| 8 | From Moscow , the caravan travelled slowly eastwards for almost 1,000 miles to the Middle Gap of the Ural mountain chain , across seemingly endless plains of grassland and great forests . |
| 9 | Under the more inefficient system of the late nineteenth century , it was not unusual for over 2,000 cases to be reported in a single year . |
| 10 | Early in the New Year the organisation was moving from the Dickensian building in the city centre which it had inhabited for over fifty years to a new purpose-built high-rise office block south of the river , an area not long cleared of old slum dwellings and deratinised . |