Example sentences of "for the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is that for the actual three hund |
| 2 | It was hoped that the fund would raise some 6,000 million forints ( about US$80,000,000 ) in 1991/1992 , although it was widely predicted that this would be insufficient to provide for the estimated 300,000 unemployed in Hungary . |
| 3 | In spite of peace negotiations between the two sides , access to relief for the estimated 500,000 to 700,000 people behind rebel lines remained a critical problem . |
| 4 | The legislation offered no compensation for the estimated 3,500,000 blacks dispossessed of their land since 1950 . |
| 5 | Now , Eleanor Thorne was eighty-nine years old , and her conversation was erratic , but Dorothea still sat with her , and for the odd fifteen or twenty minutes , and sometimes as long as an hour , they would talk , as they had always done and the present world swung temporarily into focus for the old lady , and she held on to it , like a crystal ball , firmly in her hand . |
| 6 | It was a matter of very small beginnings for everybody , and then as the pictures that they made became more and more popular , more and more acceptable , used not merely in fairgrounds or in odd corners of shops and this sort of thing , for the odd fifteen minutes or twenty minutes of movie , but entered into the music halls , became one of the acts in the music hall entertainment erm this really was the foundation of a new industry , a new industry of entertainment , a new industry of information . |
| 7 | This gives the range of MLU scores which accounted for the middle two-thirds of the 123 children studied at each age level . |
| 8 | As for the 500 million yen in illicit political donations which he acknowledged having received from Watanabe , he claimed not to remember to whom it was distributed , and suggested that his secretary , Masahisa Haibara , who had directly received the money from Watanabe , should be questioned on the matter . |
| 9 | wages and salaries payable to employees for the preceding four months . |
| 10 | He had won the court case , had obtained over £2,000 in costs , was due £4,750 as his half share of the sale price of the Baron , and William Dunlop had still to pay him half of the stallion 's considerable stud earnings for the preceding six years . |
| 11 | As for the preceding two species . |
| 12 | The average age at which people marry remained more or less stable for the preceding two centuries until the end of the Second World War , when it began to fall , but there were notable changes in the pattern of childbearing , especially between 1870 and 1930 . |
| 13 | In 1818 , the Walker colliery which had been closed for the preceding 30 years was reopened . |
| 14 | The debts shown in the Accounts relating to the Business ( less the amount of any provision or reserve calculated on the same basis as that applied in the corresponding accounts for the preceding three financial years ) were good and collectable in full in the ordinary course of business and have or will realise the net amount thereof . |
| 15 | The skirt developed for the Super 4 was more efficient than its predecessors : less of it touched the sea , so less power was wasted in overcoming water resistance . |
| 16 | The 3000s support 2,300 users , less because of current limitations in the MPE/XL operating system for multi-processing , but TPS rates are higher , ranging from 114 for the 3000 990/100 up to 420 for the 992/400 . |
| 17 | Aga saga : a morality tale for the nicer Nineties Despite the recession a novel published today is likely to make its author a millionaire . |
| 18 | But I do n't , I do n't but at the moment there so , the games they 've sold , there 's no games before , before there is gon na be really good games for the twelve hundred , yeah , before they start coming out . |
| 19 | The agendas for the above 3 meetings will be issued in due course , but it is not intended that the reports should be circulated again ; spare copies of the reports are available for members , by telephoning me at the undernoted extension . |
| 20 | Certainly , the multi-studio techniques used for the famous 1959 Decca Aida were meat and drink to Karajan ; and although he sometimes thought he knew more than he did , occasionally putting paid to expensive equipment , his mastery was of an order not previously seen in a working musician . |
| 21 | For the second 45 minutes it was Chelsea who made the chances , with Boro keeper Steve Pears reacting well to keep them out . |
| 22 | The breakdown of the prize-money for the event was £1,000 per hole for the first nine holes and £2,000 for the second nine holes , plus £250 for every birdie and £500 for every eagle . |
| 23 | Orders for the second 10 years , by which time the capital costs of THORP will also have been recovered , are coming in steadily with more than 40 per-cent capacity sold to Germany , Nuclear Electric and Scottish Nuclear . |
| 24 | In his annual report to the nation on Nov. 1 setting out goals for the second three years of his six-year presidential term , President Carlos Salinas de Gortari proposed radical reforms of agriculture , the education system and the status of the church based on changes to the 1917 Constitution . |
| 25 | The vital signs of the patients were checked every hour for the first 12 hours , every two hours for the second 12 hours , and every four hours for the following 24 hours until they became stable , and then four times daily . |
| 26 | It probably failed for the Mixed Fours were re-introduced as a trial in 1960 and reintroduced yet again in 1974 largely on the initiative of Valerie Wormwald the then Ladies ' Captain . |
| 27 | Remember this — most of the players were regular first team players , so , exxcluding the very first transfers , all the players were playing for the 2nd Div champions , or a top 4 team in the country . |
| 28 | Estimates of abundance of harp seals were presented for two periods : Norwegian authors provided the highest upper limit for the late 1960s , and the lower limit of the estimates from the analysis by a UK scientist was less than the catch of the 1967 year class of pups . |
| 29 | Its share of total industrial activity has varied over the period but the figures for the late 1960s are representative . |
| 30 | Partly influenced by the Black Power Movement in the US , the category ‘ black ’ became , for the late 1960s , an important focus , especially among left antiracists , for mobilizing the growing communities of Afro-Caribbean and Asian descent . |