Example sentences of "for an [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been asked to teach a course of lectures at the Teachers ’ College , which is the only place in NZ to run a speech therapy course ( run jointly with the university ) ; so I was staying on for an extra 4 weeks , while the others ( except Ned , who was also staying in Christchurch with his job ) headed for Auckland to fly home . |
| 2 | The new hall will provide residential accommodation for an extra 100 students on the campus in study bedrooms with en suite facilities , a warden 's flat and facilities for the disabled . |
| 3 | Touched by her husband 's bringing her coffee Frau Nordern was in a good humour , dismissing her own worries about the accident as mere alarmism stoked by Bodo , and tempering her authoritarian ways by letting Paul stay in bed for an extra fifteen minutes instead of , as usual , rousing him in the manner of a sergeant in charge of a penal battalion . |
| 4 | The Conservatives point to the cash provided this year for an extra thousand police officers as evidence of their commitment to tackling the problem . |
| 5 | For an extra two hours ' shift , well I suppose we can just afford it , can we ? |
| 6 | Crime levels in County Durham hit an all-time high last year , but the police force is still waiting to hear if their Home Office bid for an extra 20 officers will be successful . |
| 7 | Mr Taylor has already appealed to the Home Office for an extra 20 men in a bid to boost the number of bobbies on the beat . |
| 8 | Incidentals were a quadrupling of salaries and the extension for an extra three years , until 1996 , of the terms of the 84 Taiwan-elected members . |
| 9 | ‘ They sent two of our men off — and then they played for an extra ten minutes so that they had a chance to equalise . ’ |
| 10 | And we asked for an extra ten days . |
| 11 | There 's also more support for an extra 40 police to bring the Gloucestershire force up to strength . |
| 12 | Even with endoscopic clearance , which should be more thorough , it is often difficult to remove radiologically undetectable , tiny fragments adherent to or embedded in the mucosa and therefore , latterly , patients have been given adjuvant bile acid therapy for an arbitrary three month period . |
| 13 | Last summer — and 11 years on — on a tricky surface at Headingley and at a crucial time , he played his greatest Test innings , carrying his bat for an extraordinary 7½ hours making an unbeaten 154 . |
| 14 | Last summer — and 11 years on — on a tricky surface at Headingley and at a crucial time , he played his greatest Test innings , carrying his bat for an extraordinary 7½ hours making an unbeaten 154 . |
| 15 | In 1934 he joined the Irish Independent , with whom he worked for an eventful 50 years , latterly as its northern political editor . |
| 16 | He was banned from driving for 10 years and was also jailed for an additional six months for driving while disqualified . |
| 17 | If you continue working , say for an additional five years , your pension will then be 45 per cent higher than if you had started taking it at the normal age . |
| 18 | For an additional five bucks she did the talking topless . |
| 19 | On Nov. 7 the Joint European Torus ( JET ) , based near Oxford in the UK ( see p. 36052 ) , had issued an appeal for an additional 400,000,000 ECU over the period to 1996 , to enable it to continue its research into nuclear fusion . |
| 20 | I am considering the police authority 's application for an additional 24 police posts for 1992-93 . |
| 21 | He is currently working on a project for an additional 125 aid centres to be set up within the next three years . |
| 22 | The expansion will see the company step up its demand for an additional 200,000 tonnes of commercially-grown timber per year . |
| 23 | The aircraft crossed the overrun , rolled down an embankment for an additional 250 feet into Mountain Creek Lake and came to rest fifty feet off shore . |
| 24 | BL21(DE3) cells were transformed by each plasmid and the cells were grown at 37°C in an LB medium containing 100µg/ml ampicillin until A 600 reached 0.6 , at which time IPTG was added to a final concentration of 1.0mM and the cells were allowed to grow for an additional 3 hours . |
| 25 | The chief reason is the Communauté Financière Africaine ( CFA ) franc , a currency shared by 13 French-speaking African countries , which has been pegged to the French franc , without being devalued , for an impressive 45 years . |
| 26 | The blockade held for an amazing eight months before the army broke it up . |
| 27 | Over a period of eight years , Reagan visited 135 plants in more than forty states , met 250,000 people and stood before a microphone for an estimated 250,000 minutes . |
| 28 | Sony will pay Streisand about £1.2 million a year for an estimated 10 years to develop projects through her film company . |
| 29 | Targets are planned for an estimated 300 jet sorties daily |
| 30 | They were not properly cared for , and by May this year there was widespread malnutrition in the camps — despite the fact that the UNHCR provided for an assumed 600,000 refugees , almost double the true number . |