Example sentences of "to [be] [vb pp] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The amount was to be fixed for one year . |
| 2 | Coun. Ray Flowers , chairman of the county highways sub-committee , also welcomed the pedestrianisation scheme , which is to be monitored for 18 months . |
| 3 | High-density seating with many rows fixed in face-to-back mode , together with much more standing room , enabled trains which had previously been formed of three old DMU vehicles to be scheduled for two Sprinter vehicles . |
| 4 | May we have a change in our procedure for questioning the Leader of the House who last week announced the business for the following week even though he apparently knows that the election is to be called for 9 April and that the business will therefore be changed ? |
| 5 | On Oct. 22 , 1990 , he had been ordered to be detained for 60 days in a military camp for sending a letter to Menem warning him that unrest in the army could provoke a " military rebellion " . |
| 6 | A YOUTH who inflicted what a sheriff described yesterday as an appalling gaping face wound on a teenager he slashed was ordered to be detained for 15 months in a young offenders ' institution . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At Angle in Pembrokeshire the first new slipway and boathouse to be built for 31 years is to be constructed . |
| 10 | Seeing it yesterday for the first time , she had reflected that great tact would have to be employed for two women to share quarters this size . |
| 11 | Because of the division of labour , work soon became the perpetual repetition of a simple task , or the minding of a machine ; such work often had to be done for fourteen hours a day , six days a week , and there were no special provisions for the women and very young children who were considered especially suitable for work in the textile industries . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In 1301 Boniface VIII ordered a tenth to be levied for three years ; in 1305 Clement V imposed a septennial tenth upon the clergy . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Money borrowed from a pawnbroker did not have to be repaid for fifteen months . |
| 16 | The film had to be stopped for seven minutes , during which one man shouted through a loud-hailer , ‘ We , the National Front , protest against this anti-British rubbish , especially at the time of El Alamein . ’ |
| 17 | A verdict of guilty required the sentence to be delayed for twenty-four hours . |
| 18 | The conclusive Senate vote was scheduled for Oct. 8 , but had to be delayed for seven days following revelation of new evidence from Anita Hill , 35 , a black University of Oklahoma teacher of law , who alleged that Thomas had subjected her to sexual harassment with explicit , pornographic suggestions when she worked for him at the Department of Education and the EEOC in the early 1980s . |
| 19 | A five-lorry pile-up on the A66 at Penrith caused the major trans-Pennine route to be closed for six hours early yesterday . |
| 20 | Usher relied on bore holes and tanks although even those proved inadequate one year when the school had to be closed for three months because of the shortage of water . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Perhaps when his desk collapsed through sheer weight of mail he finally will realise that we simply want to be left for 60 minutes an hour in our blinkered little world of leather and willow . |
| 23 | The assassination of Martin Luther King six days before , only one of a tragic series in recent American history , had caused the event to be postponed for two days . |
| 24 | The maiden voyage may have to be postponed for five months as a result of a fault in one of Challenger 's fuel tanks . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | SOUTHAMPTON suffered a double blow yesterday when they discovered Terry Hurlock and Iain Dowie are to be banned for two matches . |
| 27 | SO Allan Lamb 's reward for having the courage to speak out and tell the truth about the Pakistani ball-tampering was to be banned for two games and heavily fined — with the possibility of further punishment from the TCCB . |
| 28 | Repeating submissions made in December 1991 , it is further suggested that the requirements for a property to be let for 26 weeks out of a 52-week period — before an individual is allowed a deduction in respect of interest on a loan to purchase the property — is too restrictive in the present state of the property market . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | NOW NORSK DATA ASKS FOR ITS OSLO LISTING TO BE CANCELLED FOR TWO MONTHS |