Example sentences of "for the [num] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a student he broke the Scottish records for the 100 and 200 yards , and set a new record for the inter-universities 440 yards ( 50.2 seconds ) . |
| 2 | Then it earned a reprieve , this time it wo n't — a sobering thought for the sixty or so staff who are losing their jobs . |
| 3 | Life proceeds at a gentle , traditional pace today for the 500 or so residents of Cotherstone Kelvin Walker runs his general store and petrol pumps ( and taxi service ) the Post Office also sells the superb Cotherstone cheese , and there are two excellent public houses . |
| 4 | Now you can also have diminished intervals for the fifths and fourths . |
| 5 | Special provision should be made for the 2,000 or so full-time adult education staff , including LEA organizers , along the lines suggested in the first Haycocks Report . |
| 6 | For the 3000 and 3100 series is a 2200kg ( 4850lb ) capacity linkage . |
| 7 | The study involves the transfer of parish register material for the c.1770-1820 and late eighteenth/early nineteenth century vestry data into machine-readable form . |
| 8 | She can barely move in her Gloucestershire home for the 200 or so ticking treasures jostling for space on the walls , mantelpieces and floors — anywhere where there 's a minute space to be had . |
| 9 | For the 200 or so who attended , everyone appeared to have been unanimous in believing that the scheme had been wholly beneficial in broadening cultural life in villages . |
| 10 | Ginsberg 's Howl actually came out while Leonard was there , doing for the fifties and sixties generation what Eliot 's The Waste Land did for the twenties and thirties , and not least Ginsberg 's ‘ A Supermarket In California ’ , in which he questioned Lorca 's lonely habits ; as did Lawrence Ferlinghetti 's Picture Of The Gone World . |
| 11 | For all those who thought that homo-eroticism began and ended with Boyz magazine , this photo collection gives a lens-eye view of one Montague Glover , a British Bruce Weber for the Twenties and Thirties ( but without the casting agent , American beefcake or dogs ) . |
| 12 | It is likely that the next session will be decisive and that a curator will then be elected on a temporary basis : the appointment to direct the Visual Arts sector for the 1992 and 1995 Biennales can not be confirmed until the Executive Committee , whose mandate has now expired , has itself been completely renewed . |
| 13 | I was at a conference in Berlin on Wednesday that was attended by ministers of the interior for the Twelve and for the countries of eastern Europe . |
| 14 | Skimmed milk is not suitable for the under-fives because it lacks important vitamins and energy-giving calories but semi-skimmed milk can be introduced from the age of two , if your child is eating a variety of foods . |
| 15 | Pooled results are presented separately for the 17 and 21 item version of the scale and then all 20 trials were combined by using the standardised difference between mean Hamilton scores for the serotonin reuptake inhibitor and tricyclic and related antidepressant groups : Standardised difference=difference between means/standard deviation . |
| 16 | If you could make a profit of approximately £2,500 per week for the fourteen or so unoccupied weeks ( a big if ! ) you would turn that excess of expenditure over income into an income surplus . |
| 17 | The time taken by the cyclist for the six and a half mile journey from Currie to the City Chambers was thirty minutes , making an average speed of 13 mph . |
| 18 | Census data for a group of seven countries , Brazil , Chile , Colombia , El Salvador , Honduras , Peru and Venezuela , for the 1960s and 1970s , show that the number ( if agricultural units of less than 20 hectares in these countries rose from 4.7 million to 6.5 million , that is by 38.5 per cent ( Ortega 1982 ) . |
| 19 | In both series , H pylori was associated with chronic active gastritis ( 92.6% for the 1960s and 47.6% for the 1980s ) compared with its presence in the mucosa without active inflammation ( 0% in the 1960s and 19% in the 1980s ) ( p<0.001 ) . |
| 20 | Figures for the 70s and 80s show that , in total , about 75,000 people have emigrated during the first 85 years of this century , and emigration is still popular in 1990 . |
| 21 | A human MYOD1 cDNA and the pIGF-I-R.8 cDNA were used as probes for the Myod-1 and Igf1r loci , respectively . |
| 22 | Some 67 boys and 38 girls applied for the 14 and Under event with 30 boys and 25 girls for the 11 and Under , sufficient to run two separate tournaments . |
| 23 | And he believes there is room for the 11 or so independent manufacturers in this country . |
| 24 | For the thirty or so recruits of Calais Platoon , part of the Adult Training Company , today is the day towards which they have worked for the past five months . |
| 25 | Borg , who split with 41-year-old Loredana earlier this year , is now playing tennis tournaments for the over-35s for purses of just a few thousand pounds . |
| 26 | The 1989 review of the NHS allowed tax relief for private health insurance for the over-60s but the rejection of other means of finance rules out any fundamental change in the near future . |
| 27 | Perhaps by then the Government may have some strategy that will provide work for the million or so unemployed that it overlooks while compiling the official figures . |
| 28 | Table 6.2 shows calculations of the basis using the data from the numerical example in Table 2.4 of Chapter 2 for the FT-SE 100 index future for the 5 and 6 September 1989 . |
| 29 | There are 195 places overall for the 5 and 6-year courses . |
| 30 | Intel Corp president Andy Grove told the annual meeting that the company 's chip business remains strong and that it is ready to fight new competitors in the market place , Reuter reports : ‘ Our response to all these competitors has been to concentrate on getting better and faster products into the hands of our customers , ’ Grove said , adding that Intel was meeting demand for the 80486 but dealer and customer inventories were tight ; capital spending this year is now likely to hit $1,800m , up from the previously planned $1,600m ; executive vice-president Craig Barrett said the next generation P6 microprocessor will probably be unveiled in late 1995 or early 1996 ; Intel holders also approved a two for one share split to take effect in June . |