Example sentences of "their [noun pl] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Voting has a ritual aspect , whereby citizens formally and publicly show their preferences for one party over others , and hence their willingness to accept the result of the contest , and their legitimation of that result . |
| 2 | However , the three would-be collaborators for the grand tour each revived one of their ballets for three performances by the Ballet Club at City Hall , Cape Town , in July and August ; this was when Yvonne Blake danced the Scarlet Woman . |
| 3 | The French government succeeded in carrying through their plans for three reasons — because the more centralised legal and planning structure made it less easy for pressure groups to hinder progress , because , to a large extent , the government 's arguments — that it was a straight choice between nuclear power and penury — were both heard and largely accepted and , finally and possibly most important , direct and immediate financial benefits were offered . |
| 4 | With the usual lack of euphemism , the overseers enter the rubric ‘ Dead ’ against her name at the beginning of 1786 ; their accounts for 10 January indicate that it had cost them the grand sum of 3s. 9d. to bury three paupers : ‘ West Wife ; Titford and Robbans ’ . |
| 5 | As the ambulance left the scene , neighbours , who had been kept shut in their houses for two days , began to emerge into the sunshine . |
| 6 | THOUSANDS of people were ordered to stay in their homes for three hours yesterday when toxic smoke was released in a chemical plant fire . |
| 7 | In return , the chairmen will want the PFA to drop their demands for 10 per cent of the TV revenue . |
| 8 | Lithuanian leaders have clashed repeatedly with Russia over their demands for billions of dollars in compensation for the mess left behind by former Soviet troops . |
| 9 | The proponents of the law had proposed a fee of 5% of the sale price of the object to be paid to artists or their survivors for fifty years after the artist 's death . |
| 10 | About 1,000 BP employees in Glasgow evacuated their offices for two hours yesterday after a pipe in the chilling plant of an air conditioning system broke loose , releasing gas into the building . |
| 11 | The relationships you build up with our clients and the advertisers , with the clients you 're working in their own er their offices for three weeks so you get to know people . |
| 12 | BUSINESS Expansion Schemes share issues may appeal to those who can forego access to part of their savings for five years in return for sheltering these funds from tax . |
| 13 | At the end of the financial year , the Institute 's membership register contained , in addition to the eight Honorary Fellows , the names of 103,415 members who had paid their subscriptions for 1992 or were eligible for free membership . |
| 14 | Four months ago at Maastricht , Mr Major was the new boy , the cadet among titans who had led their countries for 10 years or more : Kohl , Mitterrand and Andreotti , men who shared a vision of a tightly-integrated monetary and political union and who rode roughshod over Britain . |
| 15 | ‘ Not long after , the Athenians made a peace with the Spartans and their allies for thirty years , giving up Nisaia , Pegai , Troizen and Achaia , their possessions in the Peloponnese ’ ( Thuc. i.115.1 ) . |
| 16 | All ambulance crews would continue to stand by at their stations for 999 calls . |
| 17 | All ambulance crews would continue to stand by at their stations for 999 calls . |
| 18 | Despite this Clinton is expected to increase the IRS staff allocated to transfer pricing cases and prohibit former government employees from negotiating with government agencies within their responsibilities for five years after leaving office . |
| 19 | They had food in their saddlebags for two days , and the pack mules carried grain and hay for the horses , there being little forage in the hills the patrol would traverse for the first two days . |
| 20 | yeah , makes you I ca n't see what 's good its doing twenty years afterwards , the people had time to think about it and use their memories for twenty years , nineteen seventy-two it happened and they 've just sort of done it . |
| 21 | He used data from a survey which had asked ‘ informed business economists ’ their predictions for six and twelve months ahead for a number of economic series which included the consumers ' price index for the period 1954–69 in the US . |
| 22 | Well you know , you 've only got to get maybe smallpox back again and that will knock all their predictions for six . |
| 23 | They ‘ lost ’ one of their locos for 13 days . |
| 24 | They have n't used their bows or their guns for four days . |
| 25 | It is this basic human right that has been denied deaf persons and their families for hundreds of years . |
| 26 | I was amazed to realise that some of them had been using their machines for five years and had no idea of the machines capabilities because all the instructions are written in either English , Spanish or Japanese ; nothing in Thai . |
| 27 | They were deeply in love , and the strength of their feelings for one another , together with the great natural beauty of the ‘ green and woody ’ landscape which surrounded them , induced in Coleridge a depth of contentment he would rarely find again . |
| 28 | WEDGWOOD Cricket Club have hit their rivals for six by getting their season off to a blistering start . |
| 29 | The SSA would not normally condone betting , but for a good cause head office staff are positively encouraged to have a flutter by SSA chairman On February 5 around 8O people put down their stakes for four horse and four videoed greyhound races . |
| 30 | HARD-UP Brighton have not paid their players for six weeks and backroom staff have not had wages for two months . |