Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [num] of [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Tories , particularly , were keen to take tens of thousands of pounds for party funds . |
| 2 | Council tax payers could face a bill for tens of thousands of pounds for policing a music festival . |
| 3 | The Merseyside Police Charity Raft Race has become one of the most popular events in the Mersey River Festival , raising tens of thousands of pounds for charity . |
| 4 | A sales rep from Runcorn , he was on the road for eight months and raised tens of thousands of pounds for the NSPCC , the charity which was originally founded in Liverpool . |
| 5 | The rheidity of ice is a few weeks , that of salt about a year , but igneous rocks will only exhibit rheid flow after a stress has been applied for hundreds of years , in the case of deeply buried rocks subject to elevated temperatures , or tens of thousands of years for rocks at the surface . |
| 6 | Since he started them and put so much effort and endless work in to running them , these events have raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for charity . |
| 7 | Sheila Harrod certainly is … born and bred in Swindon she 's founder and director of the Kentwood Choir , which has raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for charity , her efforts now rewarded with a British empire medal . |
| 8 | But it takes hundreds of thousands of years for these processes to turn the sediments into carbonate rock , and meanwhile biological changes , it now seems , play a key role in deterring the fluctuating carbon dioxide balance . |
| 9 | Learning to value the skills they have developed through running a home and family was just one of thousands of options for change being offered to women at Colchester Town Hall on an Education Day organised as part of this year 's Adult Learners ’ Week . |