Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took only eight minutes for Portadown to take the lead . |
| 2 | The control regime was liberalized for computer , machine tool and telecommunications technology ( microcomputer exports having been permitted since August 1989 ) ; companies seeking exceptions to remaining restrictions would have to wait only eight weeks for permission , rather than 12 weeks as hitherto ; and countries such as Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland , if they were prepared to introduce their own controls on use and re-export , might expect more favourable treatment . |
| 3 | Seeing no future in hearts West then found the club switch and East took the next six club tricks , leaving only six tricks for declarer to collect at the end . |
| 4 | Well you ca n't , there 's only three dumplings for Bill . |
| 5 | It took only three years for Totten to move St Johnstone through the pecking order to the Premier Division and the club were in the top half of the table when , on 14 December , the McDiarmid Park chairman , Geoff Brown , decided a change was necessary . |
| 6 | ‘ Club before country was how it had to be for me because injury and suspension have left me with only 11 players for Arbroath 's league game with Brechin City on Saturday , ’ said McGrain . |
| 7 | Strangely , he played only seventeen times for England , and his 182 , not out , in 1921 remained the highest test score against Australia in England for seventeen years . |
| 8 | This is because , if there is only one logogen for fork , all these different tasks will involve activation of the same logogen . |
| 9 | There should be only one opportunity for discount ; otherwise the full purchase price should apply , he said . |
| 10 | Yesterday , with two interest rates announced in three hours and a devaluation on the way , there was only one message for sterling — sell , sell , sell . |
| 11 | There was only one criteria for entry into the scheme : would-be owners had to be able to look after their personal care needs . |
| 12 | She had made only one recording for posterity to judge her by , and that was of Chopin , never her strongest point . |
| 13 | There is only one examination for entry to S1 , be it for entry as a Bursar , Foundationer , Assisted Place Holder or as a fee-paying pupil . |
| 14 | Well , it 's only one scholarship for Germany , but er two girls , in fact one from as you know , Russia . |
| 15 | The PROFITBOSS has only one formula for success and that 's his secret . |
| 16 | He asks you to give details of the current football managers who have made only one appearance for England . |
| 17 | ‘ But I do know that the Gruagach have only one use for Humans and if you stay here long enough you 'll find out what that is . |
| 18 | The Modern Studies data files contain references to all media in the library — including periodical articles , video programmes , books and newspaper cuttings , so all pupils are required to make only one search for information . |
| 19 | He has five-star ideas but only one star for approach and organisation . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ There 's only one place for money , and that 's a safe place … a place where it can make a healthy profit without being subjected to the fluctuation of bonds and shares and suchlike . |
| 21 | There is only one place for lunch on the hill , and all the main runs end up there . |
| 22 | But he does n't say , ‘ Jesus says there is only one ground for divorce , and that is adultery . ’ |
| 23 | In theory it says that there 's only one ground for divorce — the marriage has irretrievably broken down . |
| 24 | In effect , the alternatives presented to the ‘ counter-culture ’ by the liminal experience were also available to some of us in our marginal police world , and we were forced to see that those concepts of order and disorder we had once taken almost as the natural way of things were in fact only one model for society ; a single framework for social action ! |
| 25 | There was only one post for part time senior registrar training in general medicine in the whole country , and I was not successful . |
| 26 | Although only one sequence for MUP and A2U is shown the urinary proteins are encoded by a gene family expressing at least seven closely related forms of the protein . |
| 27 | Hallas , 21 , missed an entire season two years ago with glandular fever and has started only 60 games for Hull KR , though he has been one of their mainstays . |
| 28 | IT TOOK perhaps two minutes for Glenn Miller to line up his shot . |
| 29 | Since it joined in 1980 Japan has listed only four sites for protection and one of these , Lake Utonai on the northern island of Hokkaido , is now said to be threatened by secret plans to build a 40-kilometre flood control canal . |
| 30 | Japan has been slow to protect its marshes and tidal flats , despite joining the Ramsar Convention in 1980 ; since then it has listed only four wetlands for protection . |