Example sentences of "were [verb] for the [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Judge Ovidiu Zarnescu , president of the Central Electoral Bureau , at the start of the campaign 5,716 candidates were nominated either as independents or by one of the 73 political parties for the 387 elective National Assembly seats and 1,584 candidates were nominated for the 119 Senate seats . |
| 2 | An example would be where two sets of final accounts were presented for the one organization , the first reporting historic costs and the second current valuations . |
| 3 | Forty percent of those procedures were written for the '89 shutdown and the other sixty percent for the 1991 overhaul . |
| 4 | Only four horses were entered for the five furlong race , and he saw Bellevin beaten by Winkfield Pride . |
| 5 | The news categories used by the 1947 Press Commission , which were followed for the 1975 analysis , were too general to show up many differences of detail , but are recorded in Table 6.6 . |
| 6 | Thirty proposals were submitted for the 2001 launch , of which four were selected for further study . |
| 7 | Although one suspects that the extreme rural and intermediate rural areas would be reduced in area if the same exercise were repeated for the 1981 census ( unfortunately it has n't and anyway would be difficult to do so since local authority boundaries have changed since 1971 ) , the analysis did allow Cloke ( 1978 ) to compare degrees of rurality between 1961 and 1971 , and to produce a three-fold typology of rural areas that were becoming increasingly non-rural , were static or becoming increasingly rural , and to produce maps of these three types for each of the four rural areas shown in Figure 5.5 . |
| 8 | About 20 minutes ' worth of space-age special effects were created for the 1984 movie The Last Starfighter . |
| 9 | The following goals were established for the ten month secondment period : |