Example sentences of "it [vb past] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A proposal for the reform of the Italian railway network advocated the dismissal of the board if it failed for two years running to achieve performance targets ( Santoro 1985 ) , and the Spanish Socialist government has similarly toyed with the idea of sacking unsuccessful chairmen ( Tamames 1983 : 371 ) . |
| 2 | It provided for 532 flats and maisonettes in eleven storey and four storey blocks . |
| 3 | It burned for three days . |
| 4 | Eventually a cheque came , instead of being like , for six thousands er , nearly seven thousand it came for four ! |
| 5 | It rained for four days . |
| 6 | ‘ Last time I was here it rained for forty days . |
| 7 | It rained for three days . |
| 8 | Almost 20 people aged 16–25 attended the Young Persons ' Health Clinic at Park Place Health Centre when it opened for two hours on February 7 . |
| 9 | This afternoon it poured for two hours solid . |
| 10 | Last year it budgeted for 200,000 new motor policies in 1992 . |
| 11 | It catered for three Wehrmacht officers , the Danish research engineer and his chief assistant , and a young SS officer who was the Dane 's personal security escort . |
| 12 | It survived for two and a half years under the Georgian Social Democrats ( mainly Menshevik ) , and instituted important reforms . |
| 13 | It worked for six weeks , but then Moya 's subconscious started waking her earlier . |
| 14 | It snowed for three days without stopping , great cotton wool flakes , falling from a dark sky and swirling so thickly and blindingly that Mr Evans actually said the children need not use the privy in the yard in the daytime but could go up to the bathroom whenever they needed to . |
| 15 | But it fell for one one thousand five hundred then in nineteen fifty four . |
| 16 | Mr Williamson , can I ask for your confirmation that the reason that the Secretary of State deleted Policy E two in the nineteen eighty structure plan was one of the many reasons under the heading , General , there is no specific reference in the notice of approval to the deletion of this policy and therefore I am assuming it fell for one of the reasons given in paragraphs five point two to five point four five . |
| 17 | ‘ They left his body lying where it fell for three days , as a warning to the other prisoners . |
| 18 | And that she said was repossessed and it went for seventy five thousand . |
| 19 | David Lloyd , his captain at Lancashire , tells a story that once in a Gillette Cup match against Gloucestershire at Old Trafford , Clive Lloyd edged a ball from Mike Procter so hard that it went for six . |
| 20 | He tried the hook , got a top edge and it went for two over the keeper 's head . |
| 21 | But it was a Vauxhall Astra van but I mean it was E reg and it was three years ago and it went for two thousand quid ! |
| 22 | You 'll have to stump up at least £2,500 for the bond and leave it invested for five years . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A black , beady eye caught the light as it moved on short , powerful legs and toes , and as it crossed the clearing it paused for one brief moment to utter a shrill and prolonged , ‘ Kee … wee … | . ’ |
| 25 | It ran for four separate days over a period of weeks , followed by an exam when all managed to pass . |
| 26 | He had a Phillips G eleven , he took it home and plugged it in , it ran for two hours |
| 27 | It ran for 6 years in London 's West End and is still being performed professionally . |
| 28 | In 1947 it accounted for 9 per cent of the secondary-school population , but in 1967 for only 5.5 per cent — made up by 1.4 per cent in Public Schools narrowly defined , and 3.9 per cent in other independent schools . |
| 29 | The next Easter , when the march sensibly reversed its direction , it stretched for four miles as it wound its way into Trafalgar Square , which held a crowd ten times as big . |
| 30 | It continued for three days . |