Example sentences of "[num] [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Friend Teesside group was formed four years ago to provide a counselling and advice service and last year received 597 calls for help . |
| 2 | As well as providing legislative protection , it underpins the collective agreement which provides for a basic shift of seven and a quarter hours plus winding time for underground workers and eight hours for surface workers . |
| 3 | It took less than forty eight hours for Alice to die . |
| 4 | These breeding season data suggest a marked decrease since 1938 , when Walpole-Bond quoted a figure of 500 pairs for south-west Sussex . |
| 5 | Even before he became king , Edward sent out some ninety-four letters to religious superiors asking for benefices , pensions and corrodies for his clerks , and in the course of his reign over four hundred and fifty requests for corrodies , addressed to over two hundred houses , have been counted in just the Calendar of Close Rolls ; between 1308 and 1327 Worcester priory received no fewer than fifty-one royal requests on behalf of royal servants . |
| 6 | yeah , but then you 'll only have fifty P for lunch and that 's not enough |
| 7 | So if you used to charge fifty P for programmes , consider , could you charge seventy five P ? |
| 8 | But they 'll also have to pay fifty p for transportation ? |
| 9 | For some fifteen years now researchers wishing to have special tabulations compiled from the 1961 census of England and Wales have been refused due to ‘ technical difficulties ’ , and more recently it has been discovered that the machine-readable ten per cent sample of the 1971 census for Scotland is no longer accessible ( Marsh 1980 ; Schürer 1985 ) . |
| 10 | For example , John Fox and Peter Goldblatt ( 1982 ) have shown that after controlling for age , mortality in the 5 years following the 1971 Census for men aged 15 to 64 was greater for the highest social class , professional workers , who were living in the local authority sector , than for the lowest social class , unskilled manual workers , in the owner-occupied sector ( see figure 7.9 ) . |
| 11 | His tally of 1,816 wickets for Lancashire is still a county record and he played 70 times for England claiming a further 252 victims . |
| 12 | Senate and House committees were re-examining the 1980 election for evidence of that rogue Iranian factor mentioned earlier . |
| 13 | Emily was imprisoned eight times for stone-throwing , window-breaking , and setting fire to postboxes ; she was forcibly fed over one hundred times , mainly during her last imprisonment . |
| 14 | Capped eight times for Great Britain and twice for Wales , the former LLanelli star has notched the fastest 1,000 career points in the history of the game . |
| 15 | He 's been arrested 32 times for shoplifting , but each time magistrates ruled the offences were n't serious enough for him to be detained , where he might have got the treatment he needs . |
| 16 | It took only eight minutes for Portadown to take the lead . |
| 17 | The mini screen displays temperature and cycle conditions , so the user can scroll back through the preceding 120 hours for information on the performances and temperature range of the unit . |
| 18 | Thus between 1966 and 1976 net overseas earnings rose on average by 5.3 times as against 2.3 times for manufacturing . |
| 19 | This is equal to a six pound fifty cut for band D properties . |
| 20 | The compression system accepts CCIR-601 D1 digital video input , YUV 4:2:2 , 720 by 480 pixels for NTSC , 720 by 576 pixels for PAL and SECAM , and an average of 16 bits per pixel and 30 frames per second . |
| 21 | These indices have been used to produce 113 maps for England and Wales at a scale of 1:63,360 and although the five grades shown on the maps provide a broad pattern of where the best ( grade 1 ) and worst ( grade 5 ) land is , the maps have , however , been roundly criticized . |
| 22 | All we ask is that over the next year , you make four more selections from over 300 titles for children of all ages — each picked by our expert panel for its quality and educational value , and described for you in our free monthly magazine . |
| 23 | F-WORD IS CHOPPED 30 TIMES FOR TELLY DIE HARD |
| 24 | Check after 30 minutes for leaks |
| 25 | Follow instructions in the cottage re water on and off ( arrival/departure ) — and allow about 30 minutes for tanks to drain fully before departure — always slower than one thinks ! |
| 26 | Montgomerie was kept waiting 30 minutes for Lyle to finish and he said : ‘ That gave Sandy a big advantage . |
| 27 | I 'll tell you about that in a minute and then er I er had to go about forty times for permission . |
| 28 | For instance , Glenn Hoddle played 53 times for England but never was a team really designed to bring the best out of his brilliant ability , albeit in a much different form to Gascoigne 's style . |
| 29 | The floods , combined with heavy snow , produced 300 calls for help to the police . |
| 30 | You must arrive at your UK departure airport at least 1 1/2 hours before take off ( 2 hours for destinations outside Europe ) . |