Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour knows , and the long faces around the hon. Gentleman confirm , that the council tax is a winner and that we have found in three months the solution that has eluded Labour for three years . |
| 2 | The GRIST funding represents a timely response to addressing these issues , although a cautionary note has to be sounded — if the curriculum is not considered satisfactory for four years olds in general , what of its relevance for four year olds with special needs ? |
| 3 | But one of two new rulings deemed experimental for one season , is dividing the rugby world . |
| 4 | It is recommended that LIFESPAN facilities are made unavailable for 30 minutes before the shutdown so that any outstanding transactions may be completed . |
| 5 | It is recommended that LIFESPAN facilities are made unavailable for 30 minutes before a LIFESPAN shut down so that any outstanding transactions may be given sufficient time to complete . |
| 6 | Tonight , after five years of bulldozing and construction around the little farming community of Chessy in the flat countryside 18 miles east of Paris , Euro Disneyland will open its doors and 15,000 adult guests from around the world will be turned loose for two days in the vast theme park . |
| 7 | Basically this provides that controlling persons who ‘ knowingly or recklessly ’ fail to supervise their employees properly , with a view to preventing insider dealing violations , can be made liable for three times the profit made or loss avoided ( this may not exceed a $1m fine ) for violations committed by their employees or other controlled persons . |
| 8 | They are produced by the Evangelical Church of Estonia and will be broadcast weekly for 18 weeks . |
| 9 | Whole blood cyclosporin trough levels were measured weekly for two months and then monthly for the remainder of the study using high performance liquid chromatography . |
| 10 | Introduced new for 1988 Summer season . |
| 11 | Rule 5 strikes a note familiar to all Sunday School teachers and Superintendents : ‘ Scholars who shall have been marked absent for twelve Sabbaths of the year shall not be entitled to be present at the Annual Festival Excursion . |
| 12 | At a site by the Royal Hotel that has remained undeveloped for 40 years , sycamore ( Acer pseudo platanus ) is beginning to appear above a dense patch of buddleia ; the sycamore is probably the natural successor to buddleia in this city . |
| 13 | Thehealthy twins have remained healthy for 21.4 years ( range 8–40 ) after the diagnosis of the matching twins who had ulcerative colitis and for 14.9 years ( range 7–31 ) in the twins discordant with those who had Crohn 's disease . |
| 14 | I 'm not surprised she 's gone short for four years . |
| 15 | It therefore follows , in our judgment , that although this has gone unnoticed for 119 years , the jurisdiction of the judges as visitors , in so far as it relates to questions as to the fitness of persons to become or remain barristers , is a jurisdiction which in 1873 was vested in the judges of the three common law courts , sitting elsewhere than in court or chambers , when acting as judges , in pursuance of custom . |
| 16 | He went into such deep shock after the frenzied sex murder two months ago that he was struck dumb for 24 hours . |
| 17 | He leaned heavily upon her arm , with a shambling lameness which was only half assumed , for he had gone barefoot for three weeks before he reached the refuge from which Iago had conveyed him west to Shrewsbury . |
| 18 | Even the gaping hole left by de Bonneval 's precipitate retreat on Belleville Ridge had been plugged before the over-cautious Germans could exploit it — although it had been left open for twelve hours . |
| 19 | The new bridge , designed by W.H. Barlow , was of wrought-iron lattice girder construction , like the old , but proper scientific calculations were made this time to allow for lateral wind pressure — the first time scientific studies of such stresses were made — and the new Tay Bridge , still the longest railway bridge in Britain at just over 2 miles , has stood solid for 100 years , linking Dundee with Fife . |
| 20 | A DARLINGTON factory which has stood empty for three years is close to being sold . |
| 21 | When the discharges first started , their levels were said to have been kept high for two years ‘ as part of an organized and deliberate scientific experiment ’ . |
| 22 | In their farm kitchens and workshops you could be forgiven for thinking that time has stood still for 150 years . |
| 23 | rightly , have stood condemned for 300 years for having committed the atrocity . |
| 24 | ( 5 ) A partial offer must be kept open for at least 21 days ( Rule 31.1 ) whereas an on-Exchange tender offer is only required to be kept open for eight days . |
| 25 | Both door and windows are kept open for three weeks . |
| 26 | The school occupied Trench Hall , a stately home which , having stood vacant for seven years , showed all the obvious signs of neglect . |
| 27 | In the most recent presidential elections , in October 1990 , Houphouët-Boigny , who had previously been elected unopposed for six terms , was unsuccessfully challenged by an opposition party candidate and won a seventh term [ see p. 37767 ] . |
| 28 | The tragedy at Slapton Sands in Devon , in which 700 US servicemen died when a D-Day invasion exercise went wrong , was ‘ kept quiet for 40 years , ’ he says . |
| 29 | I WAS surprised to read that Terry Charman of the Imperial War Museum gave credence to the myth that the loss of life during one of the Slapton Sands invasion rehearsals had been ‘ kept quiet for 40 years ’ . |
| 30 | Where prices were once held constant for five year periods , from 1976 onwards they have been revised annually on the basis of a five-year moving average of world market prices . |