Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [num] [noun] for " in BNC.

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1 Erm , in addition to that there 's the erm there 's the U A three stuff in the first half of this year which is fourteen people for four months , eight people for two months effectively .
2 Certainly he did not stay the full course which was seven years for the qualification of a Master 's degree , the necessary precondition for further study of law , theology and medicine .
3 St Jovite , Europe 's leading colt who is 6–4 favourite for the Arc , runs in the Champion Stakes at Leopardtown today .
4 There are two strategies for finding out how the visual system works .
5 ‘ Around here , there are two things for a working-class kid to do : steal or box . ’
6 There are two squads for each male age division and two squads for females .
7 There are two records for July ( 10th , 1975 , and 1 7th , 1960 ) and one for August ( 12th to 21st , 1976 ) .
8 To put in a new light which is independently switched , there are two choices for the wiring .
9 There are two reasons for this .
10 There are two reasons for this .
11 There are two reasons for this .
12 There are two reasons for this .
13 There are two reasons for televising Parliament .
14 There are two reasons for this : first , there is no way to place a value on any one quality , and second , a quality considered to be a weakness is frequently only a counterbalance to assure that a strength is not misused .
15 There are two reasons for this diversity : microphones have differing pick-up characteristics depending on their intended use ; and they differ in the ways in which they convert sound into electrical signals .
16 There are two reasons for this .
17 If you tend to forget back-up reasons in the surprise of hearing yourself make a proposal or suggestion , then use a link to remind yourself : ‘ And there are two reasons for this . ’
18 There are two reasons for this .
19 There are two reasons for this : it would take far too long for the calves to reach working age , and their mothers would be off work while rearing very young calves .
20 There are two reasons for the emphasis on demand , and they both relate to some of the premises built into the idea of ‘ structured dependency ’ .
21 There are two reasons for believing that this is n't true .
22 According to Neill Macklin , marketing director for Hutchison , there are two reasons for the slow take-up : that the company realised late last year it did not have sufficient geographical coverage to promote the service fully , and because it ‘ had n't predicted the onslaught from the low-cost cellular services [ of Cellnet and Vodafone ] ’ .
23 There are two reasons for this : first , it provides a complete and convincing display of the art of drawing in the second half of the fifteenth century , with outstanding exhibits lent by major collections worldwide .
24 There are two reasons for this : first , the collection of international modern art and the British historical collections are out of proportion with one another , and if they were separated , that problem would disappear .
25 There are two reasons for this : ( a ) the correct words do not have a proven semantic relationship ( unlike the semantic pairs ) , and ( b ) the control words are not artificially selected but instead are random orthographic derivations of the correct words and therefore not necessarily unrelated .
26 There are two reasons for this : ( i ) the analyses for the technical feasibility of graduated test levels in Chapter 6 ( pp. 153–87 ) are based on these success rates ; ( ii ) for economy of presentation as difficulty factors can easily be identified using these figures .
27 In purely linguistic terms , there are two reasons for this difference between Belfast and certain other studies .
28 There are two reasons for this .
29 There are two reasons for this .
30 There are two reasons for giving them only the most tangential treatment here .
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