Example sentences of "[adj] for [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For instance , there is at present an order outstanding for two dozen piranha fish . ’ |
| 2 | ( Although half the members of the upper house were due for re-election in mid-1992 , elections in the lower house were not due for another two years . ) |
| 3 | Data Logic is still working on the CICS/6000 port , which is n't due for another nine months , a project that is engaging around one third of its workforce . |
| 4 | That explained why Margaret was not due for another ten days . |
| 5 | He named it Latimeria and informed an astonished world that a creature thought to have been extinct for 70 million years was still alive . |
| 6 | Importantly , speedier and more sophisticated forms of transport and electronic communications make it increasingly possible for these two forms of work to be in contact despite their physical separation or ‘ stretching ’ over time and space . |
| 7 | It is obvious that only personal documentation at the time could make it possible for these three politicians to write anything with accuracy from 20 years after the events had taken place . |
| 8 | IS900 and IS902 are multicopy DNA insertion elements specific for these two organisms . |
| 9 | While left academics queue up to deliver their twenty thousand words worth on the latest nuance of postmodernism , we look in vain for two hundred words on a new film or television programme . |
| 10 | So when I did n't receive any further communication , I 've gone back to them and asked them whether they would be interested in reducing the price , cos we consider it to be too high for that one acre of land . |
| 11 | We are trying to populate a land which has been derelict for two thousand years with a people which has been scattered for two thousand years . |
| 12 | Some other cellular event was involved , but its nature remained obscure and unexplained for another 30 years . |
| 13 | The room he was looking into was stripped of all furniture and decoration ; if anybody had occupied this house since Sartori 's time — and it surely had n't stood empty for two hundred years — they had gone , taking every trace of their presence . |
| 14 | Rates of butyrate metabolism in controls and ulcerative colitis patients were similar for all three regions studied , but glutamine metabolism was significantly greater in the descending colon in ulcerative colitis . |
| 15 | THE MAXIMUM PAYABLE FOR ANY ONE CLAIM FOR REBUILDING OR REPAIR OF THE HOME INCLUDING PROFESSIONAL FEES , CLEARANCE COSTS AND STATUTORY COSTS IS THE AMOUNT INSURED FOR BUILDINGS . |
| 16 | Both logistically and procedurally it would be impossible for all four cases to be pursued to trial at the same time , and it was therefore natural for the Barclays ( Asia ) and West L.B. matters to be placed in relative suspense , whilst attention was concentrated on Carrian and B.M.F.L. |
| 17 | But it is not as bad as it seems , and it is fairly typical for any dozen books selected at random . |
| 18 | The first defendant had known the deceased for some seven years and said in evidence that for the 3 or 3½ years before the deceased 's death he had been looking after the deceased . |
| 19 | And soon afterwards we were grateful for its responsive power steering and generous reserves of torque ( perfect for those 1:5 hills ) to take the climb up Winnat 's Pass with ease . |
| 20 | And soon afterwards we were grateful for its responsive power steering and generous reserves of torque ( perfect for those 1:5 hills ) to take the climb up Winnat 's Pass with ease . |
| 21 | She said well that 's the rules , you know that 's how we 're doing this , we 're offering a fixed-rate for three hundred pounds . |
| 22 | I felt after working hard for twenty seven years I felt it was a shame . |
| 23 | If the relationship is mildly curvy , or if the spread of the Y values is not constant for all X values , this may stand out more clearly in the plot of residual Y versus fitted Y than in the original scatterplot . |
| 24 | The assumption is that methane in the air bubbles trapped in ice remains unchanged for 30 000 years , and this may be incorrect . |
| 25 | Mind you , that 's good for fifty five pound in n it ? |
| 26 | They looked good for all three points but County came back with an equaliser from Phil Turner … |
| 27 | She says she 's good for another 10 years , even though she 's 39 . |
| 28 | ‘ The guy that sold us the ‘ speeder said it was good for another million miles . ’ |
| 29 | I do n't think it would have done Miss Huntley a lot of good financially though , given that Angela was only twenty-nine and actuarially good for another forty years . ’ |
| 30 | Paintwork supplied by International for all ten yachts survived the voyage in remarkably good condition , standing up to everything the oceans could throw at it . |