Example sentences of "for a number [prep] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed for a number of meetings there was an exchange of views about education , training and industry and increasing concern about whether partnership added anything to previous links , replaced them , or was simply another talking shop . |
| 2 | ‘ The peasant economy can be defined quite simply as that Form of farm production ( and associated activities ) in which the producer and his family till the land themselves , generally utilising their own means of production ( tools and instruments ) , with the object of directly satisfying their basic needs , although for a number of reasons they may find themselves required to sell a part of their produce on the market in order to obtain goods which they do not produce . |
| 3 | For a number of reasons they normally fail to reproduce , and are present only for the lifetime of the individual(s) . |
| 4 | I had acquired his confidence , which I believe I still retain , but for a number of reasons which were quasi-political we drifted apart towards the end of his second premiership , and although we have remained on friendly terms , the intimacy has long vanished . |
| 5 | And for a number of reasons we we felt that this was n't appropriate er primarily because it 's it 's an inflexible approach . |
| 6 | Fourteen two , erm the great problem is it 's easier to get if an afternoon meeting can finish at a reasonable time , then I can probably but erm I think if you , if you 're looking at the clock when home in the evening for a number of reasons it might be then I would this and unless we can sort of put a restricted time on the agenda which is impossible , I can imagine coming down here at two o'clock for the meeting . |
| 7 | For a number of reasons I can not accept Mill 's answer to the question , ‘ What does it mean to say that something is white ? ’ |
| 8 | Cos I was asking , for a number of reasons I was asking for floor plans for our , you see . |
| 9 | There are proposals for a number of bypasses which are relatively limited , erm throughout the majority of its length it will remain single carriageway . |
| 10 | Edwards and Ladd ( 1983 ) suggest verbs do not inflect for tense or person in BSL , but though this is true for a number of verbs it is not true for some of the most frequently used verbs . |
| 11 | As a legal device , it exists for a number of purposes which I have sought to set out . |
| 12 | For a number of years they have been producing the yachts in their range in both standard and Master versions , the latter being more luxuriously appointed and intended for private ownership . |
| 13 | For a number of years they did have but er |
| 14 | For a number of years we have been trying to upgrade the quality of our business , in terms of the technical content of products , the level of design we build in and the price we charge . |
| 15 | ‘ If someone has been living on the streets for a number of years he ca n't switch over to an organized life in a couple of days … it is too sudden . |
| 16 | Stephen of Blois , the son of William I youngest daughter , was favoured by the Barons and was crowned King of England by the end of 1133 , but for a number of years he was imprisoned by the Barons during civil war . |
| 17 | If prices remained high for a number of years it would become economic to develop marginal deposits in other parts of the world , such as Indonesia , New Guinea , New Caledonia , Peru and the US . |
| 18 | For a number of years it was the tallest building in Canada . |
| 19 | It 's no exaggeration to say that I owe my start in politics to the G M B because after having worked , as Dick said , for the G M B for a number of years it was the support of the G M B which helped me win the nomination for Chesterly Street and in the early eighties I can remember when er the Labour Party was going through a difficult period it was officials and members of the G M B who were a steadying influence in my constituency , as they have been ever since . |
| 20 | A final point on this type of clause : if what is regarded as an initially reasonable figure is inserted in standard conditions and remains unchanged for a number of years it may well have become unreasonable through the impact of inflation , either in an absolute sense , or because average contract values have increased . |
| 21 | For a number of years I have done my best to present the ordination of women in the Anglican Communion to Orthodoxy and to Rome in terms of development rather than revolution . |
| 22 | The logic of the inhibitor approach is obvious , but for a number of years I was reluctant to get involved in doing such experiments , as it was n't clear to me that using broad spectrum inhibitors such as those for protein synthesis would tell me anything precise about the biochemical processes I was trying to unpick . |
| 23 | For a number of weeks he was unable to train with his colleagues , but in the past fortnight he has been able to step up his training . |
| 24 | For a number of weeks he was unable to train with his colleagues , but in the past fortnight he has been able to step up his training . |
| 25 | However , they are also set high for a number of fields which are very popular with applicants ; used in conjunction with offer conditions which are also high , as a controlling device , they enable offers to be made to a more reasonable proportion of the total applicants ( although for 1988 entry 70 per cent or more of all applicants were rejected for twelve very popular fields ) . |