Example sentences of "it for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah well , it was right it was cheaper to do it for twelve months anyway . |
| 2 | People who use land and invest their labour in it are benefiting society more than those real owners who neglect it to the extent of ignoring it for twelve years or more . |
| 3 | He stood in it for fifteen minutes , until it rang on the dot of nine . |
| 4 | It 's worth trying it for eighteen miles , is n't it ? ’ |
| 5 | Question , you go to see Mr. and Mrs. Client tonight , and they need , let's say they need a hundred thousand pounds worth of life cover , and to fit their lifestyle , or their children , their family , they need it for eighteen years , they ca n't afford that . |
| 6 | They can ship it , National Power can ship it half way across the world and get it for eighteen pound a ton . |
| 7 | George made a long thinking , grumbling noise , then said , mostly to himself : ‘ The paperwork must have been good … if they were living on it for eighteen months … they were n't escaped prisoners of war trying to reach Switzerland on a hand-copied Fremdenpass … |
| 8 | This is almost all that can be gleaned from broadly contemporary written sources about the Danish monarchy between c.950 and the accession c.987 of Swegen Forkbeard , who conquered England in 1013 , and whose son Cnut ruled it for nineteen years . |
| 9 | I frequently perform funerals three deep : that is , I do it for one person , who does it for another , who does it for the relatives of the deceased , he being the first person applied to . |
| 10 | People paid 25 roubles to have it for one night . |
| 11 | They were allowed to see it for one hour , before it was taken back , and none of them has been able to get hold of it since . |
| 12 | Is it for one driver or any driver ? |
| 13 | For example , an investor could buy a ten-year bond , hold it for one year and receive the coupon , and then sell it for the current price of a nine-year bond with the same coupon . |
| 14 | Suppose also that an investor intends to buy the share , hold it for one year and then sell it at the end of the year . |
| 15 | I wore it for one year and that |
| 16 | Which is what I meant to erm tt get on to Chris from the press office B B C Well I 'll give him a bell and just organize it for one day . |
| 17 | Scrap it for one day . |
| 18 | I do know that I 'm not going to put up with it for one minute longer , though . |
| 19 | I do n't believe it for one minute , personally , but this is the , this is the theory , and I 'll explain why I do n't believe it , later . |
| 20 | We 've just been going on timing it for one minute or something . |
| 21 | They wo n't wear it for one minute when I tell them the whole story . ’ |
| 22 | I can do it for one minute twenty seconds . |
| 23 | Take your eyes off it for one second and … something frightful might happen . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't think I really believed it for one second . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm glad to hear that , ’ Claudia said , not believing it for one moment . |
| 26 | I mean we all live in a society where people wear clothes and we 'd probably feel a bit ashamed if we did n't have to wear any , but if you grew up in a society where nobody wears clothes , you would n't , would n't bother about it for one moment . |
| 27 | Black-leaved ilexes grew in the churchyard and a brassy laburnum had flowers on it for one week out of the year . |
| 28 | UN relief flights to Juba — known as " Operation Lifeline Sudan " — were halted temporarily on July 21 , after Sudanese government troops had boarded a UN plane and used it for one week to transport troops and military equipment . |
| 29 | Mr McEd was acting pretty cagey about it for one thing and , when pressed , would only come up with the reassuring phrases : ‘ Every cloud has a silver lining Ed … ’ or ‘ Do n't worry son , you father 's not such an old fool as he looks … |
| 30 | Course he 's been on it for six weeks . |