Example sentences of "for a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now with this one the one we 've just done you do n't really know how far to go I mean I might have been going to ask erm how long has he been travelling if he 's been riding for a thousand hours . |
| 2 | There 's the stirring up-ya-boya numbers like ‘ Pied Piper ’ and ‘ Never Mind The Stranglers ’ , closing-time anthems for a thousand pubs over the coming months . |
| 3 | We were looking about four thousand pounds for for s for a thousand copies of the |
| 4 | I reckon I 'd do it for a thousand pounds . |
| 5 | But it 's not for sale at any price — it 's more than a hundred years old , and was snapped up for a thousand pounds at auction . |
| 6 | He sold one of Derain 's paintings for a thousand francs to a Norwegian dealer and was able to offer Modigliani a contract . |
| 7 | so , she thinks like they were , they were on show these just for a wardrobe and a set of drawers for a thousand quid , he let her have them for six hundred , so she 's been and paid a deposit on them |
| 8 | It contained a platinum US Approach card , a brick of travellers " cheques , and a cash-facility authorization at a Fifth Avenue bank for a thousand dollars a day , if needed . |
| 9 | In Salah would be the biggest town for a thousand miles . |
| 10 | The murals of Diego Rivera for the Secretariat of Public Education in Mexico City are admitted by the critic Antonio Rodriguez not to be all of an equally high standard , ‘ but what poet could keep up the same lyrical flow for a thousand verses ? |
| 11 | Had they failed , Martin and his men — i.e. those who dreamt up the match schedules — would have had enough egg on their faces for a thousand omelettes . |
| 12 | ( I live in a town which has stayed the same for a thousand years beyond skirt-lengths and cars . ) |
| 13 | The best places for bottles in Montepulciano are the cool brick cantine like that of the Contucci Palace , cellars furred with black fungus where Vino Nobile has been produced for a thousand years . |
| 14 | There is no village now , but for a thousand years there has been a manor . |
| 15 | For a thousand years there has been a manor on this site , which belonged to Hesdins , Wriothosleys , Badds and Worgans until the nineteenth century . |
| 16 | It did , however , enhance his prestige and set precedents which drew German and Austrian rulers southwards for a thousand years . |
| 17 | By the ninth century the Magyars had settled around the river Dnepr , north of the Crimean Peninsula , having been expelled outwards by that movement of Asian tribes which rolled peoples westwards for a thousand years . |
| 18 | However historically authentic ( or not ) this account may be , what is clear is that Hungarians adhered to it for a thousand years after their arrival in the Danubian plain at the beginning of the tenth century . |
| 19 | God set this Iain Og on the hot hob of hell for a thousand years — but not before I catch him ! ’ |
| 20 | Moorlands , mountains and hills crowded round on every side ; seas shimmered azure , emerald , green and blue in August sunlight ; the scent of peat smoke filled the air and we drove through a landscape that had remained almost unchanged for a thousand years . |
| 21 | As they peeled back the debris of centuries , complete houses and workshops emerged , still containing everyday tools , utensils and clothing from a civilisation buried for a thousand years . |
| 22 | Beyond the turn of the century , however , the forecast implies a rapid warming into conditions unseen on Earth for a thousand years or more , heralding a super dustbowl era far worse than the 1930s across the Great Plains of North America . |
| 23 | Cecil Rhodes , whom no one thought of as retiring and who expected to be remembered for a thousand years , chose , it will be remembered , as his instrument to achieve the infinite expansion of the British empire a secret society . |
| 24 | An isolationist king means that the land of Ulthuan can turn in on itself for a thousand years or more . |
| 25 | For a thousand years the Elves raised this vast sky-reaching structure . |
| 26 | Bards would sing of this moment for a thousand years . |
| 27 | Conceptions of a better world over which Christ would reign for a thousand years ( the millennium ) were later secularized to yield visions of a purely earthly utopia , in which a perfect human society might be possible in the absence of coercive measures . |
| 28 | It has been in my family for a thousand years . |
| 29 | The Annamese were part of the Chinese empire for a thousand years , Paul , remember . |
| 30 | A Nordic superrace will shortly descend from the cosmic iceclouds ; they will rule the earth for a thousand years . |