Example sentences of "[adv] [num] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were 540 places for boys in such schools in the city , but only 360 for girls . |
| 2 | A rib cage injury forced Pringle to leave the ground after five overs , in which he conceded only six for Haynes 's wicket , and Simmons then broke free for the second time with devastating effect . |
| 3 | The relative risk of being seropositive in the British study compared with age peers in our study is infinite for 0–4 year olds , 4.6 for 5–9 year olds , and only 1.1 for subjects aged 10 or over . |
| 4 | Specialist services for children ( cardiac , neurosciences , nephrology , oncology , and plastics ) should each be available in 2 centres ( perhaps 3 for neurosciences ) . |
| 5 | In 1996 , despite the pundits tolling the bell in anticipation of Unix 's imminent demise , Unix desktop shipments will be close to 2.4m units versus only 855,000 for NT . |
| 6 | Much to the British government 's surprise , the elections in early 1980 resulted in a massive victory for the Marxist Robert Mugabe , whose party gained 57 seats , as against 29 for Joshua Nkomo and only 3 for Bishop Muzowera . |
| 7 | Audiences dipped below 600,000 for Manchester City v QPR , the first of a series of Monday night specials . |
| 8 | And only one for Blofeld , saying , ‘ It 's people like you who are ruining the ecological balance of our very planet . ’ |
| 9 | The average sentence lengths of the two passages are fifty-seven words for Conrad , and only twenty for Lawrence & ) ; in Conrad the ratio of independent clauses to dependent clauses is 1:2.8 , and in Lawrence 1:1 ( 46 ) Lawrence , then uses much simpler sentences than Conrad , especially in his third paragraph . |
| 10 | The two parties won a total of 209 seats on the 22 regional councils in metropolitan France as compared with only four for environmentalists at the 1986 regional elections . |
| 11 | ‘ Only two for coffee ? ’ she enquired with a slight frown . |
| 12 | Her book contains plenty of recipes for pork ( slave rations £3 per week ) but only two for beef ( white folk 's food ) . |
| 13 | The median % of time the pH was below four for total , supine , and upright periods was considerably higher in patients than in controls ( 9.2 v 1.6 ; 5.4 v 0.3 ; 10.3 v 2.2 respectively ; p<0.0001 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ We threw it away , ’ said Gooch after England set only 231 for victory lost their last seven wickets for 52 runs in 11 overs at Lord 's . |
| 15 | Inspectors took away 47 for treatment and seven had to be put down . |
| 16 | For the purpose of reporting assessment , we also believe that the profile components should have equal weighting at key stages 1 to 3 , but that in key stage 4 heavier weighting should be given to reading and writing — in the ratio of approximately 40:40:20 for Reading , Writing , Speaking and listening respectively ( see chapter 14 ) . |
| 17 | Hatch proved his recovery from a spinal operation by taking seven for 56 including a hat-trick which polished off the Normanby Hall tail-enders leaving his club Darlington just 135 for victory . |
| 18 | Twenty-one units a week for men , just 14 for women . |
| 19 | It opens with pen-pics of the players , obituaries , a summary of the season and various other articles including tributes to Peter Roebuck and Jimmy Cook whose retirements leave such a void for 1992 — only Gimblett and Richards have scored more hundreds for Somerset than either of them . |
| 20 | As a form of compensation to taxpayers with lower incomes and higher outgoings due to dependent families , Lloyd George introduced another new and lasting principle into the tax system : a £10 abatement of tax for each child under sixteen for taxpayers earning £500 p.a. or less . |
| 21 | She was always one for secrets … we never got to meet any of her school-friends . |
| 22 | In most LEAs the education committee is composed of various sub-committees : usually one for finance , at least one for schools ( in larger authorities there may well be separate ones for primary , secondary and special schools ) , at least one for further education ( which may be subdivided into youth and community work , adult education and recreation ) , and one each for careers , libraries and museums , and sites and buildings . |
| 23 | The most probable takers are likely to be in the category : under 45 ( under 40 for women ) , high flyer , mobile worker in the sense of wanting to change jobs at some stage and well-off older people who are not covered by company arrangements . |
| 24 | These have countersunk screw holes , pointing in different directions — usually two for screws going into the back of the mirror frame , and one for a screw going into the wall . |
| 25 | General Accident is putting up 500,000 for research on the psychology of the road user . |
| 26 | We scored ‘ strongly agree ’ as 5 for statements which expressed positive attitudes towards the Solihull booklet and towards SSE generally and as 1 for statements which expressed negative attitudes . |
| 27 | We scored ‘ strongly agree ’ as 5 for statements which expressed positive attitudes towards the Oxfordshire scheme and towards SSE generally and as 1 for statements which expressed negative attitudes . |
| 28 | Hitherto , marriage in Britain had been late ( average age at first marriage about 25 for women , 28 for men ) . |
| 29 | Have you poured out one for Christine ? |
| 30 | It 's an alibi for Aldrich all right , but not really one for Stratton , is it ? ’ |