Example sentences of "[was/were] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , the ones at the front of the store were for seventy P and they were marked firmed tomatoes , the others at the back were sixty P and they did n't say firm on them so I thought well , firm probably means hard , I 'll get the , get the others , so I 'll skinned a couple of them for tea |
| 2 | The private sector did n't know where you were for two years . |
| 3 | Immediate plans were for four parties to leave for the area directly behind the German lines in jeeps , to attack supply dumps and soft-skinned transport . |
| 4 | Incubations were for 10 minutes at 37°C . |
| 5 | The winter records were for 26 December 1959 at Pett Level , 2 January 1965 at the Crumbles , 3 January 1971 at Eastbourne , and 16 February 1975 at Amberley Wildbrooks , found dead . |
| 6 | Typically , such contracts were for 15 years . |
| 7 | The filters were washed to 2 SSC , 0.1% SDS at 65°C and autoradiographies were for 2 days . |
| 8 | PCBs , although no longer produced , were for 50 years widely used in industry — for example as cooling and insulating fluids and in the manufacture of plastics , adhesives , and lubricants . |
| 9 | Consequently , relations between African countries and international companies were for twenty years characterized by a battle to take some degree of national control . |
| 10 | The elections at federal level were for 300 seats in the Federal Assembly — 150 in the Chamber of the People ( reduced from 200 ) and 150 in the Chamber of Nations . |
| 11 | Cevallos , as foreign minister , was for four months in ignorance of the fact that Spain had ‘ joined ’ the Holy Alliance . |
| 12 | The term was for 26 years paying a one-twelfth to the Lord , save for the first six months when no claim would be made . |
| 13 | Another consumer rights champion behind Safe-Buy is Lord Michael Winstanley who was for 18 years the presenter of Granada TV 's long-running ‘ This is Your Right ’ programme . |
| 14 | A chartered accountant , he was for 18 years managing director of Allied-Lyons Embassy Hotels Group , and five years managing director of the PROSIT Hotels and Tourism Consultancy . |
| 15 | It finishes tomorrow and it was for fifteen days . |
| 16 | I missed very much the man who was for fifteen years our first trombone ; he trained the group to the very highest level . |
| 17 | The appointment was for six months . |
| 18 | Well there was for six months . |
| 19 | There was for six months when I was there . |
| 20 | The force 's mandate was for six month , and could be extended for a further year at most . |
| 21 | The minimum investment was for 100 shares at a price of £1 per share , but , as the initial payment was only 50p per share , members of the public could become shareholders of British Gas for a down-payment as low as £50 . |
| 22 | The Agreement was for five years and matters of detail were to be settled between the respective managers . |
| 23 | Liverpool- born , Oliver was for five years a chorister at St Paul 's Cathedral before going on to study at Oxford University where he met with his first operatic success in The Duchess of Malfi . |
| 24 | They had one son and three daughters ; their son , John Bridge Aspinall , became a QC , as did his grandfather of the same name , and he was for five years the city remembrancer until his early death in 1932 . |
| 25 | Incubation was for 10 minutes at 30°C . |
| 26 | In January 1940 the requirement was for eleven cars , but this sometimes rose to fifteen , and a special siding was constructed at Rossall . |
| 27 | She followed him up the large curved staircase and decided that even if this was for one night only , she would be happy . |
| 28 | The initial plan was for one 24-hour stoppage , but if management did not respond this could turn into a rolling programme of one-day strikes . |
| 29 | So in Banbury and in Newport local Unionists were assured that the deal was for one election only . |
| 30 | All that was needed was for one kind of film to do well at the box-office and a new Hollywood format would be established . |