Example sentences of "[verb] [num] [det] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She lives near enough , ’ said Nancy thoughtfully , ‘ but we 've not seen one another for years . |
| 2 | In the West Midlands , Labour gained six seats on a swing of 3.1 per cent but needed three more for victory . |
| 3 | The new system of funding is also intended to foster competition as institutions attempt to outbid one another for student places ; and should a voucher system be introduced , competition will intensify . |
| 4 | Also there were the federations : groups of worlds which banded together and fought one another for supremacy . ’ |
| 5 | after fighting one another for months in the House of Commons , were ready to meet together under the roof of the Sovereign and sink their own differences for a common good and arrange as they had done this morning for a National Government to meet one of the gravest crises that the British Empire had yet been asked to face . |
| 6 | Then , when the next breeding time comes around , the males start moving in on the female groups again and fight one another for possession of that year 's harems . |