Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [adv] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hoarse but buoyant , Clinton had roared towards the end of a marathon tour of eight states yesterday pleading for every last vote . |
| 2 | Suzanne left school eight months ago to look for a job . |
| 3 | So , if you have a head wind component of 30 kts then timing for a 1 minute leg would be increased by 30 seconds . |
| 4 | St Helena Hospice opened in Colchester eight years ago to care for the terminally ill and their families from the North East Essex area . |
| 5 | In 1960 EFTA still hoped for a multilateral solution , within the ambit of the OECD , to the economic differences between the two organisations . |
| 6 | On March 18 Najibullah formally announced for the first time that he was prepared to resign to further the progress of a UN peace plan , the initial aim of which was to establish an interim , all-party government [ see p. 38811 ] . |
| 7 | The 1992 programme therefore calls for the liberalization process to be carried to completion . |
| 8 | Thirty thousand people now worked for the brothers ' resource companies in addition to the many thousands they employed in the construction of their property . |
| 9 | Matthew , who must run 11 seconds faster to qualify for the English Schools Championships , said : ‘ It was very windy , especially on the back straight . ’ |
| 10 | When you come to think about it , how amazing it is that a singer whose recording career lasted only seven years ( where Decca is concerned ) could produce enough material to fill ten CDs even allowing for the addition of much off-the-air material , and excluding Das Lied von der Erde , the Klemperer Kindertotenlieder and Mahler 's Second , and Brahms 's Liebesliederwalzer , the last three just issued on three further discs in Decca 's Historic series . |
| 11 | Annesley yard received and despatched coal trains from the local pits which were taken south at speeds of up to 50 m.p.h. eventually destined for the Western Region . |
| 12 | If one creditor then sues for the balance of his debt he commits a breach of contract with each of those creditors . |
| 13 | The dating of years from the Incarnation of Jesus Christ — AD1 — started in England in the eighth century quite informally , and then spread throughout the countries of Western Europe with the exception of the Iberian peninsula , where a quite different system against a base of 1 January 38BC prevailed for a number of centuries . |
| 14 | One reason often given for the dispersal of books is their appearance , and not their physical state — any shabbiness or indication that people might actually be reading them — but the visual appeal of their dust-jacket design . |
| 15 | At one time both worked for the Bank . |
| 16 | Under the Constitution of December 1983 executive power is held by the President , who is directly elected for a five-year term , while legislative power is vested in the unicameral Legislative Assembly ( which replaced the National Constituent Assembly in March 1985 ) with 60 members similarly elected for a three-year term . |
| 17 | * We marched for about two hours then stopped for the night and ate fish the Indians had caught in the river while they were waiting for us . |
| 18 | The agreement between the two ministries also provides for the care of cultural objects and monuments that belong to the other but can not be moved . |
| 19 | Representatives of the defence industries of the four countries also lobbied for the continuation of the project . |
| 20 | Early bird catches worm : there are two programs already shipping for the still-unavailable Microsoft Windows NT-run Alpha AXP , Digital Equipment Corp says . |
| 21 | From the seven candidates eventually interviewed for the vacant headmastership , Mr. Alfred Edward Daniels was appointed . |