Example sentences of "for a [adj] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was for a thousand erm |
| 2 | Or alternatively adapt Policy I five to allow for a strategic erm site or sites to be brought forward by local planning authorities in the course of their local plan work . |
| 3 | Team Millar rider McWilliams , who is still looking for a 500 Grand Prix finish , had a constructive finish and felt he could have been higher in the table , but for the rain . |
| 4 | Pierre Cornette de Saint Cyr sold an unusual interior scene , ‘ Le couronnement de la rosière ’ by the rarely found seventeenth-century French artist Jean Michelin for a mere FFr125,000 ( £12,700 ; $22,300 ) . |
| 5 | Jean Dubuffet 's ‘ La Calipette ’ of 1961 , for example , bought at Sotheby 's London in April 1990 for £2,530,000 ( $4,427,500 ) went for a mere FFr6 million ( £714,300 ; $1.12 million ) , its low estimate , after a long duel between two telephone bidders . |
| 6 | Yet last autumn Christie 's sold another ‘ canal houses ’ garniture , perhaps popped in by the Vietnamese just to test the water , for a mere Dfl28,000 ( £8,484 ) . |
| 7 | The Federation of Venezuelan Workers ( CTV ) had demanded a halt to large-scale redundancies in the public sector , and by February 1991 was predicting mass demonstrations and strikes if the government rejected its claim for a 45 per cent wage increase and for a minimum wage equivalent to $188 per month . |
| 8 | Mr Parkinson recently signalled ministerial concern by blocking BR 's plans for a 14 per cent fare rise in February . |
| 9 | BASF blamed the high costs of restructuring for a 16 per cent fall in pre-tax profits for the first nine months of 1991 , from DM 2336m ( £1 = DM2.85 ) to DM 1962m . |
| 10 | As a result of Peruvian opposition , the meeting failed to approve a Colombian plan , supported by the USA , for a 70 per cent reduction in cocaine production by the end of the decade . |
| 11 | With a 1989 inflation rate of 5.4 per cent , the Council of Economic Ministers approved a new set of anti-inflation measures on Dec. 11 , 1989 , although Finance Minister Pramual Sabhavasu refused to raise interest rates , rejecting a request from the Bank of Thailand ( the central bank ) for a 1.5-2 per cent increase in the maximum loan rate . |
| 12 | By the end of the day the raid was complete ; Tiphook had paid £7.7 million for a 9.9 per cent slice of its main competitor . |
| 13 | The union settled , in the face of the Government 's public criticisms , for a fifteen per cent pay rise . |
| 14 | The wartime alliance had been followed by an occasionally hot ‘ cold war ’ and then , from the 1950s onwards , by a cautious search for a limited modus vivendi . |
| 15 | I used to work for a certain er c er creamery there . |
| 16 | I 'm , I 'm rather disappointed that erm neither the Conservatives or the Labour Party are prepared to support a reasonable erm er reasonable plan because erm the , the Chairman is not certain plan which is represented by ourselves , Brian and Michael are routing very , very hard for a regional er airport whilst in fact that National Airport as passing along with a , a National Road er transportation strategy and everything else you can think of . |
| 17 | IG Metall had opened region-by-region negotiations in this sector on March 4 but employers rejected demands for a 9.5 per cent increase , offering instead 3.3 per cent . |
| 18 | The 1991 budget , whose approval by end-1990 was the precondition for a crucial US$2,000 million IMF emergency lending package , was debated by the Assembly on Dec. 27-30 and eventually passed on Dec. 30 by 214 votes to 128 . |
| 19 | If you get a correlation of about point seven , it means that you 're only accounting for forty nine percent , less than half , of the variants in the other var the other sets of scores Think about it , if it 's a positive , if you 've got a correlation coefficient of one , what it means is that you account for a hundred perc or or sorry , if you 're gon na make convert it to a percentage , you times it by a hundred , it 's the proportion there . |
| 20 | Erm we believe that er where in cases of erm misappropriated or fraud , the compensation fund should be for a hundred per cent of what has gone . |
| 21 | The 1991 budget presented by Finance Minister Albert Reynolds on Jan. 30 provided for a 1 percentage point reduction in both the standard and the higher rate of income tax , and for a 4 per cent increase in welfare payments . |
| 22 | Between 1950 and 1960 the Indianapolis 500 was included in the championship but it was rare for a European Grand Prix driver to compete in the race , and vice versa . |
| 23 | Er , here the Policy and Resources Committee also consider that only brought on capital which again issue guidelines which will be reviewed , at the end of January for a final erm , proposal in February . |
| 24 | I mean a fixed term contract for a year for a new in , for an investigator , first of all we 've got to find someone who would do it , secondly if that person was n't frankly al already an investigator the investment in that person . |
| 25 | It 's for a new er dictionary they 're bringing out about erm English spoken language |
| 26 | Nevertheless , in one significant respect an important modification to the common law rule could be seen with the proposal for a new s15A of SGA 1979 . |
| 27 | My expectations when I approached David Robinson of Sobstad Sailmakers two years ago to ask for his suggestions for a new No1 genoa , was that any more modern cut of sail , such as a tri-radial , would be considerably more expensive . |
| 28 | This included a scheme for a new 150,000-mile National Highway System made up from the existing inter-state system and other major roads . |
| 29 | Since the mid 1970s this source has brought together information from census and vital registration records for a one per cent sample of the population of England and Wales . |
| 30 | you know try for a better underst total understanding of |