Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [coord] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He grew up rich in beauty ; I grew up under a miserly , penny-pinching sky , in the niggardly light of England where , for three months of the year , it gets dark soon after lunch and for three more it does n't bother getting light at all . |
| 2 | Previously , he worked as a manager with Goodman Carpets of Kettering and for five years with C. F. Harrison in Northampton . |
| 3 | The term for which a Chairman is appointed — whether for years or for one occasion — does not alter his behaviour at a particular meeting . |
| 4 | M.Ps have no privilege protecting them against an arrest on criminal charges but they are protected against arrest in connection with a civil matter while parliament is in session and for 40 days before and after . |
| 5 | He taught for a year in Scarborough and for two years at Beaumaris Grammar School before being appointed in 1906 to an assistant lectureship in the department of Celtic at what became University College , Cardiff . |
| 6 | Her exhausted captain had had to hand over the wheel to Arthur and for eight days he was scarcely relieved . |
| 7 | They will not normally sing with the boys , but are to sing services by themselves on Wednesdays and with the lay vicars both on Mondays and for one of the four services over weekends , by rotation . |
| 8 | My wife and I went to Poona and for nine months took charge of the Willingdon Soldiers ' Club , at a time when welfare and amenities work was only just beginning . |
| 9 | Yet we hear so much in chapters 1–3 of the faithlessness of men in high positions in Israel ( chapter 4 will tell us that Eli was not only high priest at Shiloh but for forty years ‘ judge ’ in Israel , the one in whom resided the greatest political and spiritual as well as judicial authority among all the tribes ) . |
| 10 | The A.86 , widened and improved , turns north-east at Tulloch and for ten miles has the waters of Loch Moy and Loch Laggan alongside , ultimately arriving in the Spey valley . |
| 11 | A rate for an experienced expert for , say , 1990 might have been typified by £60 and for 1993 by £90 . |