Example sentences of "[n mass] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , Griffin et al found in 10% of their patients that oxygen saturation dropped below 90% for longer than a minute even when supplementary oxygen was used and only modest doses of sedative had been given . |
| 2 | Open daily C6 S5 V6 £58 for three courses ( lunch £13.50 for two courses , £14.90 for three ; set dinner £22.50 ) |
| 3 | Above , left to right : Sainsbury 's Pane di Olive , studded with whole olives , 92p ; Marks & Spencer 's fresh moist Ciabatta , 89p ( ready to bake , 95p ) , also available at Waitrose ( 62p , fruited , 89p ) ; Marks & Spencer 's Ciabatta rolls , 52p for six ( ready to bake , 95p ) ; Sainsbury 's Pane Cioccolato , a chocolate flavoured while bread , 98p ; Waitrose La Fornaia Pugliese , a round loaf with a firm texture , 56p . |
| 4 | Toilet rolls 84p for pack of two , basic writing papers from £9 for 500 sheets , quality watermarked paper from £10 for 500 sheets , envelopes , standard £26 for box of 1,000 ( can be split ) and quality from £27 for 500 . |
| 5 | Charges £21 for a one-hour float , or £48 for three floats , as an introductory offer , and you need to book in advance . |
| 6 | According to the excited murmurs of my fellow conferencees , Leonard Nimoy was supposedly paid $3m for this short appearance . |
| 7 | Punch bread and squatts worked a treat for Derek Bibby ( Complete Angler ) as he took just 4lb for first place in the Warrington AA match . |
| 8 | ITV is this weekend expected to sign a deal believed to involve about £3m for exclusive coverage of the British astronaut project , the Juno mission , writes Mary Fagan . |
| 9 | £3m for dead AIDS woman |
| 10 | They started off with a lump sum of 5s. in the January of 1778 , followed by a similar amount a year later , and 10s. for each of the next two Christmases . |
| 11 | It added dryly that heavy discounting by Texas Home Care in Scotland did not bode well for the sector , and included a range of profit downgrades — from previous forecasts of between £108m and £118m down to between £100m and £110m for this year , and between £110m and £125m for next year . |
| 12 | But the magistrate awarded De Pace £800 compensation for anxiety and sleepless nights , £74 for dental bills and £640 legal costs . |
| 13 | Our bill , with service , Sancerre and a good house claret from a very decent list , came to about £74 for two . |
| 14 | The Crop Residues ( Restrictions on Burning ) Regulations 1991 allow for fines of up to £2000 for each offence . |
| 15 | In order to meet these criteria , the Vehicle Watchdog performs as follows : providing the vehicle has been stationary for at least one minute , a 15mA current pulse will brightly light an l.e.d. for 0.02 seconds once every two seconds . |
| 16 | The healing rates achieved by a six to eight week treatment of erosive reflux oesophagitis are about 50% for potent histamine H 2 receptor antagonists ( for example , ranitidine ( 150–300 mg twice daily ) ) and up to 90% for omeprazole , a proton pump inhibitor . |
| 17 | Water absorption from rice based solutions in the secretory state was about 70% of that in the normal state compared with about 50% for all other ORS . |
| 18 | These reports indicate concordance rates of over 50% for monozygotic twin pairs compared with under 10% for dizygotic twins . |
| 19 | Their ratio of debts to total assets had fallen below 30% , having ranged between 40% and 50% for most of the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 20 | Brauner apart , prices showed defensive strength , the 22% dip in the index in 1991 seeming modest compared to falls of over 50% for several schools of French and American painting . |
| 21 | The wolfish landlord used this chance to demand the usurious compound interest of 50% for three years . |
| 22 | Maintenance grants remain frozen at a maximum of £2,845 for students in London and £2,265 for those studying elsewhere . |
| 23 | Revenues rose to $91m. for 1988 ( Business Week figures ) , with 181 consultants handling 2000 searches . |
| 24 | Originally the compact had stipulated that the Belau government would provide land for sites selected by the military and would compensate landowners , while the USA would provide $5,500,000 for all the land it had an option on . |
| 25 | But this goat , which is kept with the sheep for similar reasons , has to be separated . |
| 26 | One-half of the trainees had derived more confidence from attending courses , ranging from ‘ now being able to feed lambs through a stomach tube ’ ( this from a 50-year old farmer who had had sheep for 30 years ) to ‘ the confidence to tackle all but the most difficult workshop repair jobs ’ . |
| 27 | The group will be one of the largest of the new consortia now emerging in Lloyd 's and will insure up to $10m for each risk , with a ceiling of $25m for catastrophes in one zone . |
| 28 | Two dollars below the market price … and it turns out that we agreed that we do the whole operation for him in the United States … and he will supply another $10m for this start for bombing and , uh , assassinate in US . |
| 29 | The Commercial Property loss of $0.7m was an improvement on the previous year 's loss of $1.8m although this year the Perth floods resulted in several large claims which produced losses of $10m for this account . |
| 30 | Last year , thanks to costly stars , the average film cost $26.8m to make and a further $11.6m to launch — plus , say , another $10m for overseas marketing . |