Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] for the " in BNC.
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1 | Wimbledon boss Joe Kinnear after just 1,987 fans turned up for the Coca-Cola match against Bolton |
2 | More than 100 cars lined up for the start . |
3 | ‘ Three weeks sitting in for the regular breakfast show jock on a commercial station there , while he takes over your show here . |
4 | Opposite him on one of the three tables set out for the lavish dinner was Prime Minister John Major . |
5 | At £115 ( today a first edition set of Birds of Australia is worth in excess of £150,000 ) 283 subscribers signed up for the privilege of owning a copy . |
6 | Sixty fishermen turned out for the competition on Rutland Water , which had opened for the new season only four days earlier , after an initial stocking with 40,000 trout . |
7 | Er , we have approximately sixty boys signed on for the three teams , all of whom come from the Ottery area . |
8 | THE LATEST opinion poll , a comprehensive survey of 10,000 voters carried out for the Press Association news agency , last night gave Labour an eight-point lead over the Conservatives . |
9 | When he leaves here , he faces four tournaments — Antwerp , Toulouse , Paris and Wembley — in five weeks to tune up for the Masters on 27 November . |
10 | More than 40,000 fans turned up for the 12-hour event , Britain 's biggest-ever legal Rave gig . |
11 | Twenty-six teams turned up for the sporting events which included bowls , mixed netball , darts , 5-a-side football and the ever popular It's-a-Knockout and Superstars events . |
12 | When the fire was out the hut grew cold and the two boys settled down for the night under their blankets . |
13 | Barbel 's the only woman among thirty competitors lining up for the start in Geneva this weekend . |
14 | He spent 1990 watching his paymasters demolish the investment bank that he had spent the previous seven years building up for the Pru 's assault on Wall Street . |