Example sentences of "was for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cevallos , as foreign minister , was for four months in ignorance of the fact that Spain had ‘ joined ’ the Holy Alliance . |
| 2 | The term was for 26 years paying a one-twelfth to the Lord , save for the first six months when no claim would be made . |
| 3 | Another consumer rights champion behind Safe-Buy is Lord Michael Winstanley who was for 18 years the presenter of Granada TV 's long-running ‘ This is Your Right ’ programme . |
| 4 | A chartered accountant , he was for 18 years managing director of Allied-Lyons Embassy Hotels Group , and five years managing director of the PROSIT Hotels and Tourism Consultancy . |
| 5 | The existing four-year exclusive index linked arrangement with the Football League , worth around £50m , was for 18 live League games plus three Rumbelows Cup ties a season . |
| 6 | I missed very much the man who was for fifteen years our first trombone ; he trained the group to the very highest level . |
| 7 | It finishes tomorrow and it was for fifteen days . |
| 8 | The appointment was for six months . |
| 9 | The force 's mandate was for six month , and could be extended for a further year at most . |
| 10 | Well there was for six months . |
| 11 | There was for six months when I was there . |
| 12 | The minimum investment was for 100 shares at a price of £1 per share , but , as the initial payment was only 50p per share , members of the public could become shareholders of British Gas for a down-payment as low as £50 . |
| 13 | The Agreement was for five years and matters of detail were to be settled between the respective managers . |
| 14 | Liverpool- born , Oliver was for five years a chorister at St Paul 's Cathedral before going on to study at Oxford University where he met with his first operatic success in The Duchess of Malfi . |
| 15 | They had one son and three daughters ; their son , John Bridge Aspinall , became a QC , as did his grandfather of the same name , and he was for five years the city remembrancer until his early death in 1932 . |
| 16 | The Junior Citizens Project held at Harwell 's Ridgeway House was for 10 to 11 year-old children from Wantage and Didcot junior schools to take part in initiative tests on safety . |
| 17 | Incubation was for 10 minutes at 30°C . |
| 18 | In January 1940 the requirement was for eleven cars , but this sometimes rose to fifteen , and a special siding was constructed at Rossall . |
| 19 | The appointment was for 11 a.m. , and he was there ten minutes early . |
| 20 | The Foxley Wood project from Consortium Developments which Mr Patten 's predecessor said he was ‘ minded ’ to allow was for 4,800 new houses in a large shallow quarry and conifer plantation . |
| 21 | Only one contained a cheque , that from Regis , the bookseller in Maidenhead , and the cheque was for one tenth of the sum she had confidently expected . |
| 22 | All that was required then was for one of these tormentors to fall ill or suffer a sudden accident and the old ‘ witch ’ was to blame . |
| 23 | Such activity was for one thing ‘ part of the English temper ’ . |
| 24 | All that was needed was for one kind of film to do well at the box-office and a new Hollywood format would be established . |
| 25 | Fujitsu Ltd sources say that the machine being developed by Hal Computer Systems Inc in the US will be significantly more powerful than the 300 MIPS that has been reported — but 300 MIPS was for one of its Sparc chips . |
| 26 | If an individual peasant family was for one reason or another unable to produce its share of tax a peasant might borrow , do additional work as a paid labourer or craftsman or forfeit his land rights to another . |
| 27 | One way of obtaining a permanent record , in the nineteenth century , was for one observer to watch the galvanometer mirror through a telescope and work a key with his finger that operated a signal pen on a smoked drum kymograph . |
| 28 | So in Banbury and in Newport local Unionists were assured that the deal was for one election only . |
| 29 | She followed him up the large curved staircase and decided that even if this was for one night only , she would be happy . |
| 30 | Because , technically , his jail sentence was for one year , Nkrumah could register as a voter and then stand for election . |