Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] it for the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 are the relatively simple techniques relating to the facts about costs and outputs — numbers of staff , numbers of applications dealt with capable of being developed to deal with far more complex questions about outcomes : what did this activity actually achieve , in terms of modernizing British industry … improving the nation 's health , or educating it for the 21st century ?
2 The change-over day from one occupancy to the next was on a Saturday , when our admirable Jane Jones arrived to clean and prepare it for the next lot .
3 Two men climb the rock to check that all has been eaten and to clean it for the next burial .
4 Putting their dinner on the table , Trent reached for the photograph and studied it for the umpteenth time since finding it on Don Roberto 's piano — his mother , and the Colonel as a young man .
5 There Rowicki created the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra , building it from scratch and directing it for the next five years .
6 Teesdale District Council turned down an application for the sign on the ground of it contravening the town area local plan but the inspector said it was acceptable and allowed it for the next five years .
7 The first indication that anything was wrong came three months after I had let the tank up and stocked it for the first time .
8 Sheppard modelled the statue in 1911–12 and exhibited it for the first time in 1914 .
9 ‘ We had set a target of £600,000 to cover buying the equipment and running it for the first couple of years , ’ she said .
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