Example sentences of "[num] for [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Purchased in 1948 for £10 , Southampton 45 was the first of many trams to be bought by enthusiasts for preservation . |
| 2 | Bawsinch Nature Reserve was bought in 1971 for £1,000 by the Scottish Wildlife Trust to provide a buffer zone for Duddingston Bird Sanctuary and provide additional habitats . |
| 3 | Patel has recently calculated that vitamin A supplementation is among the most cost effective interventions in developing countries , with a cost of around $ 95 per life saved , compared with $ 230 for oral rehydration and $ 850 for measles vaccination . |
| 4 | After a lengthy loan spell at Leeds in which he failed to break into the first team , he signed for Shrewsbury in 1986 for £25,000 . |
| 5 | Aston Villa signed him in June 1986 for £200,000 and three years later Keown went to Everton in a £750,000 deal . |
| 6 | John and Angie Clifford bought their house in Poole in 1986 for £30,000 with a £25,000 mortgage . |
| 7 | Tootal bought Sandhurst in 1986 for £21.7m , and sold it in July for a mere £4.38m . |
| 8 | Shipwreck treasure ( in particular porcelain ) has proved a strong seller at auction over the past few years , witness the Nanking cargo of 150,000 pieces sold in 1986 for £10.1 million . |
| 9 | The commode was a relatively recent Patiño purchase , having been acquired at the Deane F. Johnson sale at Christie 's , New York in 1980 for $240,000 ( £133,300 ) . |
| 10 | The pride of Russia 's manuscript collection , it was legally acquired in 1933 for £100,000 by the British Museum . |
| 11 | We eventually sold it in 1972 for £35 and bought an ancient wood-trimmed Morris Traveller , but no car as been as dear to us as Curtis . |
| 12 | HP would know something about the exercise since it 's trying to do the same thing and the best it 's been able to come up with is the diskless 16Mb 715/33 for $5,700 or 525Mb 715/33 for $7,400 . |
| 13 | HP would know something about the exercise since it 's trying to do the same thing and the best it 's been able to come up with is the diskless 16Mb 715/33 for $5,700 or 525Mb 715/33 for $7,400 . |
| 14 | If , in the manufacturing problem of Section 9.1 , we specify goals of 25 on revenue ( as above ) , 30 for sales and 12 for exports and apply weighting factors w 1 , w 2 , w 3 > 0 to the resulting criteria , we arrive at P1 : maximise subject to . |
| 15 | On March 7 , 1990 , Ridley announced the publication of a report by government inspectors investigating the acquisition of the House of Fraser ( Holdings ) plc by the Al Fayed Investment Trust ( UK ) in 1985 for £615,000,000 [ see p. 36529 ] . |
| 16 | The picture , a later version of a work in the Louvre , was bought at Sotheby 's in 1985 for £2.2 million and loaned to the National Gallery , London . |
| 17 | In the absence of calmodulin , the channel had an apparent K m of 19μM and a Hill coefficient of 3.8 for cGMP . |
| 18 | A freehold shop bought in August 1991 for £38,000 . |
| 19 | While finance director Henry Elstone said that the company grew by approximately 6.5% organically , the figures for the first time also include a full year 's contribution from ESD Distribution Ltd , which Farnell acquired in July 1991 for £61m . |
| 20 | One cash register which Transom Trading had bought in November 1991 for £600 . |
| 21 | The care programme approach introduced in April 1991 for people discharged from hospital and the individual needs assessments to be performed by care managers will permit greater involvement . |
| 22 | Representative examples of some recently on the market are a pair of views of Vaprio and Canonicha , sold at Christie 's in December 1991 for £1.9 million the pair , $4,421,900 hammer price ; and Walter Chrysler 's ‘ Architectural capriccio with a self-portrait ’ sold at Sotheby 's New York in June 1989 to Muck Flick for $1.7 million . |
| 23 | One of the most monumental and impressive works by the artist , Meissner had bought the canvas at Sotheby 's London on 11 December 1991 for £3.1 million ( $5,728,800 hammer price ) , a little below expectations . |
| 24 | This could not have been a simple financial investment , as the Grand Junction had manifestly no prospect of making any profit ; although its paid up capital was £420,000 , it was sold in 1894 for £6,500 . |
| 25 | pH >7 was used to define abnormal alkalinity in the oesophagus because in normal volunteers the pH of the oesophagus is between 4 and 7 for 96% of the time . |
| 26 | The NFCC published an eleven-volume historical series entitled ‘ Eras of Nonconformity ’ edited by C. Silvester Horne , a Free Churchman 's Legal Handbook to aid ministers and chapel officials , hymnals , leaflets ( 100 for 1s. ) and booklets . |
| 27 | And not long before leaving England I 'd read a newspaper item revealing that a Gauguin landscape bought by another novelist , Hugh Walpole , in 1924 for £145 would now in the thirties be worth around £6,000 , and that Hermann Goering in Nazi Germany had recently paid Alfred Krupp the armaments boss 10,000 Reichmarks for another of the wayward artist 's pictures . |
| 28 | Mothercare sell a pack of six for £4.25 , but makeshift methods , such as a strong elastic band holding two handles together , are better than nothing . |
| 29 | He plans to market CIRVs in packs of six for £50,000 , and says that while potential users such as the SAS and RAF aircrew have shown great interest in the concept , Whitehall purse keepers have yet to be convinced . |
| 30 | Thus , 11 samples were used for adenylate cyclase , nine for cAMP , six for guanylate cyclase , and six for cGMP determination in the untreated patients . |