Example sentences of "place [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ca n't leave this place for one bloody week ! ’ |
| 2 | And since the dog also resided at Almsmead — Frizingley very clearly being no place for one of his pedigree — so too , for most of the time , it seemed , did Tristan . |
| 3 | relocation , in order to rectify an inappropriate placement , to eliminate dual provision ( more than one place for one subject ) and to make room for new subjects ; |
| 4 | ‘ Now here , ’ he announced brutally , ‘ is the perfect place for one of those Japanese-style bridges . |
| 5 | Of course , there is a place for one or two chief executives , but I can think of several names , which I will not mention , of former Labour and Conservative council leaders who could make an enormous contribution . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's a big place for one person — two , ’ she corrected , remembering how he had told her that it was Peter 's home too . |
| 7 | What better place for two of our London-based Target ‘ 92 candidates to test their training progress . |
| 8 | Negotiations between the National Trust and MoD have been taking place for two years and have reached a critical stage . |
| 9 | ‘ Find a place for two of us , I 'll come to you . ’ |
| 10 | A commission appointed by the Court of Session was due to resume yesterday at his home in Beith , Ayrshire , to hear testimony in advance of a full court hearing which is unlikely to take place for two years . |
| 11 | To have left the tube and drain in place for 14–21 days would have been ideal but less acceptable to the patient . |
| 12 | Occasionally a third man , Jose , would take Felipe 's place for forty-eight hours . |
| 13 | It was the worst conditions in which the rally had taken place for 27 years and at one stage a frozen Mr Hands-Heart and his travelling companion had to be lifted out of the car , he added . |
| 14 | A bridge over the river at Halling has been a debating point for a great number of years and it is a wonder , considering that here has been a main crossing place for hundreds of years and possibly a few thousand , that some structure has not been built . |
| 15 | Although employment protection provisions have been in place for 18 years now , all too often reports of unfair dismissal cases are variations on the same theme : companies trying to get rid of pregnant employees in an effort to avoid extra expense and disruption to the working routine . |
| 16 | Must be used with a spermicide and left in place for six hours after intercourse . |
| 17 | At that time it would provide a resting place for six to ten clients a week , and the arrival of each one had the macabre side of me guessing what kind of corpse it was . |
| 18 | A full fixture list is in place for six senior teams , with the introduction of a 3rd XI on Sundays . |
| 19 | ‘ I came out in November and took this place for six months . |
| 20 | You 're not going to believe this , but we got this place for 399.000.000,00 ! ’ |
| 21 | Seal the jar and leave to steep in a warm place for 2–3 weeks , shaking the jar regularly . |
| 22 | Cover and leave in a cool place for 1 hour . |
| 23 | Hold the tong in place for five seconds them release hair |
| 24 | The reserve goalkeeper held on to the place for four months , and was selected for several weeks after Grobbelaar returned to action with the reserves . |
| 25 | The reserve goalkeeper held on to the place for four months , and was selected for several weeks after Grobbelaar returned to action with the reserves . |
| 26 | I had n't been near the place for four years . |
| 27 | The Avery prize paid for a free place for four years at Redmond College , one of the best colleges in Canada . |
| 28 | That I who have held first place for eight years should be asked to take a secondary position . ’ |
| 29 | I mean to give an earlier example , when at the beginning of this century , Mendel 's laws of genetics were rediscovered and an enormous growth of genetics took place and indeed is still taking place , initially Mendelism was seen by it 's practitioners and by biologists as a whole as a challenge to Darwinism , as an alternative to Darwin , and great fights took place for twenty years or so between the Darwinians and the Mendelians . |
| 30 | Trading in this fungible option contract takes place for ten hours each day , with a one hour overlap between Amsterdam and New York . |