Example sentences of "were [num] [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were 75 registrations for Livewire in County Durham this year , seven of which reached yesterday 's final . |
| 2 | In 1988 there were 5,105 applications for asylum in the UK . |
| 3 | There were 540 places for boys in such schools in the city , but only 360 for girls . |
| 4 | The subscriptions at this time were six guineas for Men and £4 14s. 6d. for Ladies . |
| 5 | He said that there were three preconditions for happiness — stupidity , selfishness and good health — and that he was only sure of possessing the second of these . |
| 6 | The case for asylum was turned down , as the right hon. Gentleman knows , and there were three applications for leave to move for judicial review . |
| 7 | In 1988 there were 1087 applications for leave to seek judicial review in all civil cases of which 618 were allowed to proceed to consideration of their merits ( Judicial Statistics , 1988 ) . |
| 8 | There were 9,487 prosecutions for welfare fraud in 1987–88 , of which about 28 per cent were conducted by the police . |
| 9 | In 1990 there were 35,836 applications for asylum , representing an increase of 47 per cent as compared with 1989 , with those from India , Lebanon , Romania and Yugoslavia showing the greatest increases . |
| 10 | In the first seven months of 1992 there were 233,000 requests for asylum in Germany ( primarily from Romania and former Yugoslavia , and excluding refugees driven from their homes by the fighting there ) . |
| 11 | There were 8 projects for people with a mental illness , most of those people were not elderly . |
| 12 | During the year there were 9,000 requests for careers information . |
| 13 | There were two strategies for data collection . |
| 14 | There were two reasons for interview failure other than refusals ; first , residents were sometimes too old or incapacitated to be interviewed , and second , many of the listed addresses in inner-city areas turned out to be demolished or boarded up . |
| 15 | They were two saloons for Edward VII and Queen Alexandra , that saw continuous service with very little change , throughout the reign of George V and Queen Mary , and much of that of George VI and Queen Elizabeth too . |
| 16 | There were two goals for Dalien Atkinson and one apiece for Kevin Richardson and Ray Houghton … tomorrow the Villa come a calling at the County Ground … |
| 17 | In 1988 there were 144 petitions for leave to appeal in civil cases . |
| 18 | In 1985 there were 24 convictions for murder , but there were only eight in 1990 . |