Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Russians demanded compensation for installations the former Soviet army is leaving behind , and the Poles sought payment for four decades of use of Polish property as well as environmental damage at military sites . |
| 2 | If I can demonstrate that the Kaiser himself , the monarch who ruled Germany for thirty years until nineteen eighteen , had ideas very similar if not identical to those of Hitler 's , at a time when he was not in contact with Hitler , when Hitler 's party was nowhere in political terms , then I think that 's yet another very important indication that there is continuity in German history from say the Bismarckian period through to nineteen forty-five , and that Hitler stands in that national tradition , and is not some kind of lightning erm that , that struck Germany erm from a blue sky . |
| 3 | He writes : Molla Hacihasanzade , who became kazasker for twenty-five years continuously through purposing the turning away and hindering of those capable of achieving renown by directing them to the path of kaza [ kadilik ] and of those who were spoken of as outstanding in excellence among their contemporaries by impeding their passage through the ranks ; and who had by this stratagem , over so long a period , found safety from the crush of those ulema who , by right of learning and excellence , might have passed through the ranks and become rivals to him … |
| 4 | The burden of the message from schoolmaster Olver , who led Quins for three seasons before a head of department post took him to Northampton in 1990 , will be about debts — moral , not financial . |
| 5 | We got funding for one year but next year we 're left with it . |
| 6 | At that hour , right across America , all airports ceased operations for two minutes ' silence . |
| 7 | Even so , Faldo , with a 71 , still finished top European , overtaking Ian Woosnam , who had shared the lead after two rounds and was still sharing it after three holes in the third on Saturday when a storm interrupted play for three hours . |
| 8 | The big studios boycotted Manhattan for seven months last year , months of wonderful peace . |
| 9 | This stubborn but uncorrupt dictator ruled Portugal for 40 years , and never once went abroad , apart from rare visits to his chum Franco . |
| 10 | He deferred sentence for two weeks . |
| 11 | He captained Surrey for five seasons from 1952 to 1956 , winning the County Championship in each — a record . |
| 12 | Mother and children spent 1/2d a week on lunches and all shared the Sunday joint , which provided suppers for two days in the week following . |
| 13 | More than 800 employees stopped work for two hours on March 14 in protest at plans to appoint 44 staff members and outside consultants to senior executive positions and create 20 new senior posts over the next two years at an estimated cost of US$6,200,000 . |
| 14 | UNESCO experienced a major crisis in March when 800 employees stopped work for two hours in protest against a series of organizational changes ordered by the Director-General , Federico Mayor Zaragoza [ see p. 37335 ] . |
| 15 | It was the same later that year when they visited Canada for three weeks . |
| 16 | This popular prime-time , Sunday evening CBS network show provided Reagan for eight years with ‘ a vehicle for becoming familiar to a whole new generation of young people who would later vote for him . |
| 17 | The architects , John Cottam Partnership , found space for 61 flats , comprising 50 one-bedroom and 11 two-bedroom dwellings . |
| 18 | Speed star Lyric Fantasy , who recently changed hands for 340,000 guineas , will remain in training with Richard Hannon . |
| 19 | Fiona , who supervised Davies for ten months , had a torrid affair with the former jailbird and became his self-confessed ‘ sex puppet . ’ |
| 20 | He survived a fiery burst from Wasim Akram , then cracked DeFreitas for three boundaries in an over . |
| 21 | It was alleged that he received payment for two years advertising , but only one year 's space was booked . |
| 22 | It was from 1705 that he endowed £1,000 for five schools in Saltash , Liskeard , Looe , Penzance and Grampound ; whether education has wrought any substantial change in youth since that day is open to opinion . |
| 23 | Assistant Recorder David Bartlett adjourned sentence for two weeks . |
| 24 | Mr Patten also rejected plans for 2,500 homes at Eversley and 2,000 at Hook , both in Hampshire . |
| 25 | The primate centre received requests for 300 macaques and 14 chimpanzees , many of which could not be supplied because of a policy that it should be primarily a supplier for TNO institutes . |
| 26 | He joins the company from Gibson , Dunn and Crutcher , where he practised law for 15 years . |
| 27 | ‘ Markham received help for two years , but with new applicants coming along it was felt he could not receive a third grant . ’ |
| 28 | For Lynda Hall , 43 , and her husband Alan , have just bought the 200-year-old Navigation Inn , at Buxworth , which actress Pat Phoenix , who played Elsie for 22 years , took over not long after going into the Street . |
| 29 | Darkness fell on the ground seconds before kick-off when a floodlight failure delayed proceedings for 40 minutes . |
| 30 | ‘ We 'd film for 12 hours , then we 'd watch an hour or two . |