Example sentences of "[be] [verb] for [det] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intermittent series based on 50 year averages have also been calculated for another 50 items , and a large number of individual valuations for items which occur only rarely have also been collected . |
| 2 | Four people , having served their community , have been confined for some seven years and now find that their right of appeal is being hindered by some legal technicality or misinterpretation of the law . |
| 3 | WITH HAIR styling excess no longer flavour of the month , the smart ‘ salons ’ are looking for more Nineties methods of lightening your pockets . |
| 4 | They are looking for another 90 agents nationwide . |
| 5 | Erm Steve and Mark and I are definitely interested so that 's three people so we 're looking for another three people to share . |
| 6 | that 's what I 've been waiting for that ten , ten do it again |
| 7 | In some traditions worship songs are used for some five or ten minutes before a service to prepare people for worship , often followed by silence . |
| 8 | The group are staying for another 24 hours , during which they 're hoping whatever did go bump in the night will make a return appearance . |
| 9 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 10 | You can see that labels have been entered for these three values in A1 , A2 and A3 and one for the result in A4 . |
| 11 | The ancient Chinese believed that the electrical energy of the body flowed in specific channels known as the acupuncture meridians , and charts illustrating these have been known for several thousands of years . |
| 12 | ‘ I have an arrangement to print thousands more , ’ he says , adding , ‘ I hear the HMSO edition will be delayed for another six weeks . ’ |
| 13 | I was to be incarcerated for another two days and nights on a diet of three assorted pills and a curious fizzy powder in a paper wrapper , presented every few hours with instructions in mime . |
| 14 | No special diet ( mentioned the captain of Famagusta ) would be claimed for these two Lusignan hostages . |
| 15 | In each case , after charging , measurements of heat had to be made for several hundreds of hours and repeated at several different levels of current , between 0.05 and 1.5 amps corresponding to a current entering each square centimetre of surface of the rods of 8 and 64 mA. ( mA means a milliamp or thousandth of an amp , not a million amps as incorrectly stated in one newspaper . ) |
| 16 | The main offenders here are non-indigenous natives who have cleared areas ad acres of the best soil , farming it very poorly and working it as though it were a private farm … there is no rotation of crops and no manure applied which means he will soon be looking for another 100 acres of good soil to ruin . |
| 17 | The same can not be said for many thousands of Palestinian houses in what is now Israel . |
| 18 | These definitions are fairly flexible , particularly ‘ program ’ , which tends to be used for all three . |
| 19 | Great Stainton Pub closed : The Kings Arms pub will be closed for another three weeks while internal alterations are carried out . |
| 20 | THE RESULT of a post-mortem examination on a man who died after collapsing at a rave party will not be known for another 48 hours , police said yesterday . |
| 21 | But the Scot has only just recovered from a mystery virus and insists he needs to be involved for some 10 matches before he is back to his best . |
| 22 | By contrast , microfilm can be stored for several hundred years . |
| 23 | On two occasions we were called into the hospital in the wee small hours , expecting the end — but the dear old rogue had nine lives and , at seventy-nine , he seemed to be negotiating for another two . |
| 24 | One interpretation of the foregoing could be that the red jackets which should have been issued in 1820 were not to be issued for another three years , and the soldiers dressed in white clothing ( and shell jackets ) as much as possible . |
| 25 | The system was unwieldy , since grant applications had to be submitted for some three hundred individual services , and there were problems in the calculations of costs and hence of the appropriate subsidy ( Joy 1973 : 127–31 ; Parker 1978 : 7 ) . |
| 26 | It was still early ; the tourist train from Cuzco would not be arriving for another two hours . |
| 27 | In the event of non-compliance , in English law , an action can be brought for breach of contract or tort up to six years after the date of the event , as laid down in the Limitation Act 1980. [ 1 ] Documents that originate through the existence of the contract and evidence the events arising under the contract should therefore be maintained for that six year period . |
| 28 | Any adventurer who fails a WP test will be unable to get past the Ward , but the test may be repeated for each two rounds spent trying to force a way through . |
| 29 | With this in mind the Canadian Rugby Union has confirmed that Ian Birtwell 's appointment as national coach will be extended for another four years , placing him in firm control of the key decisions relating to player selection as he looks ahead to 1995 . |
| 30 | She concludes that a mix of information-giving , teaching techniques and counselling may be required for any one patient . |