Example sentences of "for a [noun sg] of [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Governors who are committed to the cause of special education will have to bid for a share of resources in competition with the advocates of other areas of the curriculum who will be pressing their case with equal vigour . |
| 2 | French football : Footballers from the Brown Trout pub , Cockerton , have left for a weekend of matches in Amiens , Darlington 's twin town . |
| 3 | First , there is a need for a continuum of services in which residential care is positively included for children and young people who may be or who are in need of public care . |
| 4 | The table compares GDP per head using market exchange rates with those on a PPP basis for a selection of countries in 1992 . |
| 5 | By the spring of 1921 sufficient evidence was available to convince the overwhelming majority of the ruling party of the need for a change of policies in relation to agriculture . |
| 6 | And the County Council 's consistently said to the West Yorkshire authorities , you must make provision for a range of sites in suitable locations to help draw er development that would othe otherwise come to North Yorkshire . |
| 7 | The beginning of a marriage is almost always the occasion for a transfer of valuables in the form of wedding presents , marriage settlements , token gifts . |
| 8 | Additional evidence of the significance of rural growth is provided by population data for a classification of districts in England and Wales . |
| 9 | The second and third weekend I get to the lake just before daybreak armed with a pair of binoculars and settle down for a couple of hours in a spot which gives me a good view of all , or most , of the water . |
| 10 | Her output was not impressive but at least she succeeded for a couple of hours in driving the memory of Sybil 's murder into the back of her mind . |
| 11 | Yeah I think I 'll walk down to Green went out for a couple of hours in the morning felt grotty did n't go out at all . |
| 12 | A girl I was seeing pretty regularly had gone to France on an exchange visit to Tours I took a job for a couple of weeks in a lino warehouse with the idea of getting some money together |
| 13 | Let's face it , when you work hard all year round to save money for a couple of weeks in the sunshine , you deserve to enjoy yourself . |
| 14 | The immense build-up made it impossible to find a decent anchor and , having stamped out a rather unstable stance , I had to settle for a couple of drive-ins in a clod of frozen turf . |
| 15 | She planned to stay for a couple of days in the Arts Club in Edinburgh , as she belonged to a London club that had a reciprocal arrangement . |
| 16 | But first you 're in for a couple of months in Florida . |
| 17 | If the bill is to be calculated on a daily rate and someone 's auntie comes to stay for a couple of months in the middle of the year , what about all the complications in adjusting for that and how do we account for the period for which someone has lost the discount ? |
| 18 | Just for a couple of nights in Dieppe : though I sometimes take the car and get down to Rouen . |
| 19 | He provides the guided tour of the ground First Division facilities , Northern League friendliness before adjourning for a couple of halves in a town centre pub called the Black Adder , run by former Ipswich star Alan Brazil . |
| 20 | Since the tournament began , first in Delray Beach in 1985 and then for a couple of years in Boca Raton , the temporary , scaffolding-supported stands have gone with them . |
| 21 | They 'd had the stuff for a couple of years in the store and we were going to meet them there , at number twenty five Lilac Avenue , New Brighton . |
| 22 | I was married for a couple of years in the seventies . |
| 23 | I went for a couple of terms in 1986 and gained a different perspective on drawing which helped me look more deeply at my subject and see light and shade differently . |
| 24 | I went for a couple of terms in 1986 and gained a different perspective on drawing which helped me look more deeply at my subject and see light and shade differently . |
| 25 | She had already spent an hour weeding and was determined to uproot a particularly tough dandelion ; then coffee , then the weekend shopping and then off to the sailing club where she had enrolled for a course of lessons in board-sailing . |
| 26 | On March 9 , 1990 , Fouad Ali Saleh , 31 , a pro-Iranian Moslem fundamentalist accused of organizing a terrorist network responsible for a wave of bombings in Paris between December 1985 and September 1986 in which 13 people were killed , was sentenced to 20 years in prison . |
| 27 | Two people are awaiting trial in connection with the attack , but 5 others , including Howard Banton , chief clerk for a firm of solicitors in the town , have appeared in court at Cheltenham , accused of conspiring to pervert the course of justice by plotting to persuade a witness to withdraw a statement . |
| 28 | ‘ I work for a firm of accountants in Shoe Lane . |
| 29 | We 're typists for a firm of account-ants in Charing Cross . ’ |
| 30 | Coupons , contained within the pack , may be collected over time and exchanged for a variety of products in a catalogue . |