Example sentences of "[num] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Railways ( 334 for 8 ; Shashi Gupta 121 not out ) have won India 's national women 's championship for the sixth successive season , defeating Karnataka ( 161 ) on first innings in the final at New Delhi . |
| 2 | The local team 's reply to England 's 334 for 4 was a not unimpressive 221 for 3 , with a trio of schoolboy prodigies ( 'We could produce them like this on better pitches , ’ Stewart said ) in their line-up . |
| 3 | The visitors declared on 334 for 5 . |
| 4 | Women in Publishing meeting , ‘ Special Agents ’ : 19th May , 6.30 for 7 p.m. , Publishers Association , . |
| 5 | Seaton Burn made 92 for four , with John Graham 43 , but Hermitage pipped them by one run , Paul Mallabar top scoring with 41 . |
| 6 | 1% off until Dec 92 for new purchases |
| 7 | Out he went , head shaking briefly , slowly and sadly , England 92 for 5 , and the young Middlesex batsman wondering if , contrary to what so many have believed , he was born to be a Test cricketer . |
| 8 | The Oval 1980 saw one of the more remarkable Test scorecards — after being 92 for 9 when Bob Willis joined Peter Willey , the innings was declared on 209 when Willey reached his maiden Test century . |
| 9 | From 92 for 9 to 209 for 9 represented one of the oddest innings in Test cricket . |
| 10 | Surrey had made 92 for three when Stuart suddenly declared — we thought he had gone mad . |
| 11 | Gary Orr finished with 70 for 292 ( 54th ) but Ross Drummond scored his second 77 in a row to share . |
| 12 | But his disastrous 76 on Saturday cost him dearly as Zimbabwe 's Nick Price kept his head to take his first major title with a battling 70 for 278 and a three-stroke victory ahead of Faldo , John Cook , Gene Sauers and Jim Gallagher Jnr . |
| 13 | Montgomerie finished in a share of 20th place after a closing 70 for 293 . |
| 14 | Peter Smith , of Aberdeen was the best of the surviving Scots , finishing with 70 for 291 alongside O'Connor , jnr to win £3,169 . |
| 15 | West Indies actually succumbed to 70 for 6 and England were cock-a-hoop . |
| 16 | From 70 for 6 , allrounders Kapil Dev and Prabhakar shared a stand of 65 , Kapil hitting 10 fours in his 56 , which occupied 83 balls . |
| 17 | Mushtaq Ahmed held out for an hour-and-a-half for 11 , standing by Malik while the biggest stand of the innings — 64 — was constructed . |
| 18 | In 1950 multiples accounted for 22 percent of total turnover , in 1966 for 33 per cent , and by 1971 for 37 per cent . |
| 19 | Population trends since 1971 for different types of places are outlined by Britton ( 1986 ) , while an account of vital trends is provided by Armitage ( 1987 ) . |
| 20 | New Zealand , chasing 201 for victory in the third and final Test , were 168 for five at close , with Ken Rutherford , the last specialist batsman , at the crease with wicketkeeper Tony Blain . |
| 21 | From 168 for 1 England added 48 more by the close , Gooch marching to 93 ( 220 balls ) , Smith 22 after an agonising few early overs . |
| 22 | The ninth session of the eighth National Assembly was held in Hanoi from July 27 to Aug. 12 [ see p. 37916 for eighth Assembly session held in December 1990 ] . |
| 23 | Lee had offered the use of Singapore 's facilities in August 1989 in the light of possible US withdrawals from bases in the Philippines [ see p. 37861 for current negotiations there ] . |
| 24 | Roberts 's fifty included an over from Botham from which he hit twenty-four runs ( 462660 ) , a new Test record for a six-ball over , and Lloyd finally declared on the third morning at 426 for 9 . |
| 25 | Boycott led the way with 86 and everyone made a contribution of sorts , but soon after lunch on the final day they were 290 for 6 and defeat was still possible . |
| 26 | Seth scored 60 not out and then returned figures of 17–5–42–5 as Witham were reduced to 97 for six , setting up Sudbury for a 60-run success . |
| 27 | In Perth , a sixth-wicket partnership of 136 between Martin Crowe ( 87 ) and John Bracewell ( 86 ) lifted New Zealand to 271 for seven on the first day after they slumped to 97 for five against Western Australia . |
| 28 | This does not mean children have to get their own way all the time ( see page 97 for some specific tactics ) . |
| 29 | They were 97 for 2 , still 70 behind , when he bagged three of the most illustrious wickets Test cricket has even had on offer in the space of only four balls . |
| 30 | New Zealand added 59 to their overnight 163 for one before declaring their second innings at 222 for five , Mark Greatbatch scoring an aggressive 88 . |