Example sentences of "[num] of [adj] [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Angie must know every song ever written and includes in her repertoire , material from The Blues Brothers , Connie Francis , Tina Turner and literally hundreds of other songs for young and old . |
| 2 | Judge Hill gave two year conditional discharges to Philip twenty one from Southampton and Keith nineteen of nearby Hythe for unlawful intercourse . |
| 3 | In that year too , Johnson secured an Education Act , providing $1.5 billion of Federal aid for elementary and secondary schools , including those run by religious denominations . |
| 4 | Marx 's attitude to the numerous anthropological works which came out between 1860 and 1880 was therefore in part one of shared enthusiasm for evolutionary theory , but also in part one of suspicion . |
| 5 | If the PGA genes are on the average linked ( in disequilibrium ) to one of responsible genes for duodenal ulcer , the association is expected to vary among populations . |
| 6 | In prison chapels the abandonment in the early 1960s of compulsory worship for all prisoners has meant the demise of Matins and its lusty singing . |
| 7 | This programme together provides over £100 million of new money for mental illness services in this country . |
| 8 | In response to government options presented to them , the banks agreed to ( i ) exchange US$6,600 million of old debt for new 30-year government bonds carrying a fixed interest rate of 6.75 per cent underwritten by the United States Treasury ; ( ii ) repurchase $1,500 million of debt instead of the $7,000 million the government had requested ; ( iii ) provide $5,700 million in fresh loans for investment in development ; ( iv ) the exchange of old debt for new government bonds offering temporary reductions in interest rates on $2,500 million ; ( v ) new bonds offering $1,630 million equal to a 30 per cent reduction in principal . |
| 9 | BOSNIAN Serbs and their Serbian backers were yesterday condemned for war atrocities by the United Nations Human Rights Commission which singled out the systematic rape of thousands of Muslim women for particular criticism . |
| 10 | However , it is not very useful for a bibliographic file in which there may be thousands of potential attributes for each record , only a very few of which are non-zero . |
| 11 | Some agencies regulate the work in progress by issuing requisitions or job sheets ( there are dozens of different names for such items ) which include data and precise timings for every stage of the job . |
| 12 | One was said to have sold dozens of military engines for personal gain . |