Example sentences of "only [v-ing] for [num] " in BNC.
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1 | So we 're only looking for fourteen businesses on each assignment . |
2 | When he invited farmers through the Darlington and Stockton Times to consider growing mushrooms as a way of diversifying he received well over 100 calls although he was only looking for ten . |
3 | She 's only going for one class . |
4 | I thought bloody hell Lynn you 're only waiting for fifty P , you know ? |
5 | Erm you gave your business card , sorry you gave your buyer 's guide first and Steve raised an objection then about do you find it a problem only selling for one company |
6 | If you get a correlation of about point seven , it means that you 're only accounting for forty nine percent , less than half , of the variants in the other var the other sets of scores Think about it , if it 's a positive , if you 've got a correlation coefficient of one , what it means is that you account for a hundred perc or or sorry , if you 're gon na make convert it to a percentage , you times it by a hundred , it 's the proportion there . |
7 | Two forms of design right are proposed , one subject to registration , the other right being unregistered but only lasting for three years . |
8 | We are expecting him back on Monday — but if he 's only staying for three days it 's a pointless exercise . |
9 | They 're only coming for eleven weeks , and that of course starting in June , take some holidays , and |
10 | A four-year investor is looking for a 25 per cent return here , against a Japanese counterpart only asking for 7 per cent over 14 years . |
11 | Exiles secretary John Hunter said last night : ‘ We felt we were reasonable in only asking for two players out of a possible six . |
12 | So we 're only asking for five hundred years . |
13 | No , I do n't get bored at all with it , er because snooker is not er like American pool , where you go out there with a stick and just knock balls all over the table ; snooker is snooker , and the name of snooker is to play this , you know , this game of chess on the green baize , and er that 's what , you see this is where Davis has been so good for so long , a ) he 's a supreme professional , he once apologised for only practising for two hours on Christmas Day rather than four , er and if you look at Davis ' score sheets and his matches , which I 've done over the years , you 'll see a lot of breaks of around sort of fifty five , sixty , sixty five , and then he stops , he plays the safety shot and says to his opponent ‘ okay , your turn ’ , plays the percentage game , the occasional knock in the very big ones , but that 's why he 's won so much , because he thinks it out so well , and knows the averages , knows the percentages and plays the game that way . |
14 | He 's only filming for two days . |