Example sentences of "could be [verb] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 According to Nikolay Gubyenko , former USSR Minister of Culture , claims have already been lodged or could be lodged for 3,017,128 works of art .
2 Thereafter , warrants were issued for only two months , though they could be renewed for one month at a time in the case of those issued to the police , and six months at a time in the case of those issued to the security services .
3 Two is the obvious number , but in certain circumstances a case could be made for one prisoner or three prisoners .
4 Thus by their individual actions facing given prices , each and every consumer will automatically arrange that 1 film could be swapped for 2 meals with no change in utility .
5 They could be jailed for two years and fined £400 for ‘ engaging in activities requiring a licence when not a licensee ’ , and thirteen other offences which included inserting false or misleading advertisements , canvassing debtor-creditor agreements off trade premises , sending circulars to minors , and supplying unsolicited credit tokens .
6 In co-operation with Finsbury Borough Council it established the first ‘ sheltered ’ work-room where ‘ elderly workers could be employed for two hours a day , on small assembling and packing jobs provided by local firms , paying the fair rate for the work completed ’ .
7 If this could be done for one product , it could be done for others with their own market strategies and situations .
8 The rice could be boiled for 50–60 minutes , pasted and then suspended in solution , to which the salt would presumably be added .
9 It is counter-productive to expect a 50-year-old patient who is 160 per cent ideal bodyweight to join the ranks of the non-obese ; even if heroic efforts achieve this miraculous transformation , it is very unlikely it could be sustained for 20 years .
10 He was immediately ruled out of tomorrow 's home match with Nottingham Forest — and could be sidelined for three weeks .
11 Worth 10 ordinary roubles , the units could be exchanged for seven grams of gold .
12 The poem which gives us the best insight into knightly and aristocratic life c. 1200 , L'Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal ( the story of William Marshal ) , rarely fails to tell us how much a particular horse was worth : it could be as much as forty , fifty or even a hundred livres — and this at a time when a serf could be bought for ten livres .
13 By the new laws of 1816 , a starving cottager could be transported for seven years for taking a rabbit to feed his family .
14 The autobiographies show that homes could be shared for two reasons , with differing implications .
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