Example sentences of "it [verb] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as I can see , there is not likely to be anywhere for it to go for the next five or 10 years , except east on the A47 or south on the A6 . |
| 2 | The coroner heard it revealed for the first time — none of the family knew it — that Charlie had had a stroke a few months before , which explained the strange behaviour . |
| 3 | It met for the first time on 25 February 1986 and includes representatives from the Departments of Transport , Environment , Employment , and Trade and Industry ; Kent County Council ; the district councils of ; elected members of Kent local authorities and Parliamentary constituencies ; Eurotunnel ; Transmanche Link ; and British Rail . |
| 4 | Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir , in January [ see p. 38710 ] was formed on Feb. 13 under the chairmanship of Col. Mohammed al-Amin Khalifah ; it met for the first time on Feb. 24 in the building which formerly housed the National Assembly — the elected parliament overthrown by Bashir in June 1989 [ see p. 36728 ] . |
| 5 | His remarks , in a Daily Telegraph interview , triggered protests from right-wing Tory MPs and pitched the Cabinet into more controversy as it met for the first time since the summer break . |
| 6 | His remarks , in a Daily Telegraph interview , triggered protests from right-wing Tory MPs and pitched the Cabinet into more controversy as it met for the first time since the summer break . |
| 7 | The route became circular in 1906 , going to Bolton Abbey and back , and in 1915 it changed for the last time . |
| 8 | Indeed it was historic , in that it provided for the first time for the elimination of an entire class of nuclear arms — land-based missiles of intermediate and shorter range . |
| 9 | Even the Darwinian theory of evolution was impressive , not because the concept of evolution was new — it had been familiar for decades — but because it provided for the first time a satisfactory explanatory model for the origin of species , and did so in terms which were entirely familiar even to non-scientists , since they echoed the most familiar concept of the liberal economy , competition . |
| 10 | When the computer is trying to save a new file to a disc , it looks for the first available fragment of space , writes as much of the new file as will fit , then looks for another available fragment of space , writes a bit more , and so on until all the file is written somewhere on the disc . |
| 11 | Instead of resting on its fundraising laurels , it has for the second year turned to race organising as a means of generating essential revenue . |
| 12 | Now that the work has been completed I hope the church will continue to attract pilgrims to the shrine of St Melangell , as it has for the last eight hundred years . |
| 13 | Yeah she had it , she was just going into theatre at the end of the programme , she was having it done for the fourth time |
| 14 | When Noreen was fourteen , it happened for the fifth time , and her mother ran out of the house . |
| 15 | It rained for the first time since we arrived in Sian today ; There has been a drought all winter , and the townsfolk have been out into the countryside to help water the crops . |
| 16 | It includes for the first time in one volume additional indexes for porcelain painters , enamellers and silhouettists , incorporating the work of artists up to the present day . |
| 17 | It includes for the first time a modest amount of money for social science research , and emphasizes closer ties to international research laboratories such as CERN , the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva , and EMBL , the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg , as well as closer cooperation with national research organizations . |
| 18 | However as far as the basic strategy is concerned of this particular alteration , it includes for the first time , conversions . |
| 19 | Anyway Rick spent what seemed like an eternity before he got the fish near the net but when it showed for the first time it soon became apparent why it had been so stubborn , the fish was massive ! |
| 20 | She was surprised to find it rising for the third time , but though it hardened she knew it would take an age to bring it to orgasm . |
| 21 | It indicated for the first time that quantum theory , which had been developed to account for atomic phenomena , still remained successful when applied to nuclei , systems which are a hundred thousand times smaller . |
| 22 | It worked for the last World Cup , when the FA paid a £30,000-a-man bonus for reaching the semi-finals . |
| 23 | Far more significant and revelatory was the arrival of the wireless , in the sense that it meant for the first time the voice of the outside world and all that it encompassed — good and bad — was heard throughout this enclosed community . |
| 24 | Although this amounted to little more than a restatement of previously-agreed policies , including the Clean Air Act of 1990 [ see ED no 41/42 ] and the planned phase-out of chlorofluorocarbons , it did for the first time set a tentative target , suggesting that emissions of greenhouse gases in the year 2000 would be " equal to 1987 levels " . |
| 25 | As I understand it the Cleveland structure plan proposes the same number of dwellings for erm its next period which happens to be fourteen years , as it did for the last fourteen of the of the previous structure plan , fifteen thousand seven hundred . |
| 26 | This report Mr Chairman is already history which is as Mr has said not to say it does n't represent progress , it addresses for the first time the historical issues , it starts to address the lessons of the first quarter . |
| 27 | To detect the regularities in nature , propose a generalization , deduce what it implies for the next case and observe whether this prediction succeeds . |
| 28 | No , it said for the first wash it 's a very strong rinse |
| 29 | In its annual report published on Oct. 2 the Fund confirmed that in the 12 months ended April 30 , 1991 , it had for the first time since 1984-85 made more disbursements ( 6,823 million special drawing rights : SDR1=US$1.365 as at Oct. 2 ) than it had received through repurchases or repayments ( SDR5,608 million ) . |
| 30 | The Gould machine was set like clockwork to continue ticking as methodically for the next two years as it had for the last eight . |