Example sentences of "to be [vb pp] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The amount was to be fixed for one year . |
| 2 | Winston Churchill , MP for Davyhulme , a leading Tory rebel , said : ‘ The report is that the White Paper says that 13 pits are going to be saved for two years and then have the chop . |
| 3 | No battleships were to be built for 10 years ; and the total tonnage of naval ships was to be based on a ratio of 5-5-3 for the USA , Great Britain and Japan , and 1.7 for each of the others . |
| 4 | Separate baptisteries continued to be built for many years and separate , free-standing campaniles were the general rule ; these features acted as watch towers and were symbols of local importance . |
| 5 | At Angle in Pembrokeshire the first new slipway and boathouse to be built for 31 years is to be constructed . |
| 6 | 1825 " The Presses of this meeting , as being part owner of the Steam Boat , declines allowing the assessment for the Steam Boat to be charged for this year . |
| 7 | In the end , areas were to be selected for three years ( at NUTS Level III ) according to the following conditions : an unemployment rate higher by at least 15 per cent than the EC average during the previous three years , and industrial employment as a percentage of total employment greater than the EC average in every year of the previous fifteen years . |
| 8 | Goals for the future include trying some more dragon boat racing and getting fit again to be selected for next year 's rodeo World Championships in the USA , purely , she says , because it is fun and she wants to paddle abroad , though with a wry grin she concedes that maybe the spirit of competition also burns within her ! |
| 9 | In 1301 Boniface VIII ordered a tenth to be levied for three years ; in 1305 Clement V imposed a septennial tenth upon the clergy . |
| 10 | The project was to be funded for one year with money from the Telethon Trust , which paid for the author 's post , that of development worker , as well as allowing a substantial budget ; the overall aim was to establish a leisure service for disabled people within the Northern Health Region . |
| 11 | I know that my hon. Friend is anxious for a conclusion to be reached for next year , and I hope that it will be possible to do so soon . |
| 12 | ‘ The responses to the Manifesto will form the background against which our strategy is going to be planned for subsequent years . |
| 13 | Places reserved for the burial of cremated remains were not likely to be filled for many years — if ever . |
| 14 | This will be the first exhibition devoted to this aspect of Canaletto 's work to be held for thirty years , and lenders will include H.M.The Queen , the National Gallery , the National Trust and many private and public collections . |
| 15 | All of which suggests that they could have as many as five players in the L.G.U. squad shortly to be nominated for next year 's Curtis Cup . |
| 16 | This means that conventional spoken broadcast traffic messages will have to be continued for many years . |
| 17 | On Jan. 14 it was announced that the government had reached agreement with the United States for the rescheduling of repayments of debt principal and interest totalling US$47,000,000 , due between June 1 , 1991 , and June 30 , 1992 ; part of this — US$18,700,000 due to the US Agency for International Development ( USAID ) — was to be postponed for 10 years , while the rest was to be subject to a six-year grace period . |
| 18 | As generally happens , his mother-in-law finally caught up with him and , having obtained a special licence from the Court , arranged for him to be imprisoned for twelve years . |
| 19 | Mr Steward may feel that the project is ‘ low key ’ , but when a nine acre sand and gravel pit is proposed to be worked for four years only a matter of 45 metres from the nearest residence and 280 metres from the centre of Cross Green ( Atlas Aggregate 's figures ) , the residents of Cockfield are entitled to feel differently . |
| 20 | A CHILD murderer set to become the first person to be hanged for 28 years has sparked controversy across America . |
| 21 | A wipe down with a damp cloth is all that 's needed to keep them clean , and if they have a factory-finished polyester powder coating , they wo n't need to be redecorated for 15–20 years . |
| 22 | These would have to be guaranteed for three years , in order to make a substantive appointment . |
| 23 | The Cabinet approved a draft general budget presented by the then Finance Minister , Edmond Rizq , on April 21 , 1990 , the first budget to be approved for five years . |