Example sentences of "was for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cevallos , as foreign minister , was for four months in ignorance of the fact that Spain had ‘ joined ’ the Holy Alliance . |
| 2 | The term was for 26 years paying a one-twelfth to the Lord , save for the first six months when no claim would be made . |
| 3 | Another consumer rights champion behind Safe-Buy is Lord Michael Winstanley who was for 18 years the presenter of Granada TV 's long-running ‘ This is Your Right ’ programme . |
| 4 | A chartered accountant , he was for 18 years managing director of Allied-Lyons Embassy Hotels Group , and five years managing director of the PROSIT Hotels and Tourism Consultancy . |
| 5 | It finishes tomorrow and it was for fifteen days . |
| 6 | I missed very much the man who was for fifteen years our first trombone ; he trained the group to the very highest level . |
| 7 | The appointment was for six months . |
| 8 | Well there was for six months . |
| 9 | There was for six months when I was there . |
| 10 | The force 's mandate was for six month , and could be extended for a further year at most . |
| 11 | The minimum investment was for 100 shares at a price of £1 per share , but , as the initial payment was only 50p per share , members of the public could become shareholders of British Gas for a down-payment as low as £50 . |
| 12 | The Agreement was for five years and matters of detail were to be settled between the respective managers . |
| 13 | Liverpool- born , Oliver was for five years a chorister at St Paul 's Cathedral before going on to study at Oxford University where he met with his first operatic success in The Duchess of Malfi . |
| 14 | They had one son and three daughters ; their son , John Bridge Aspinall , became a QC , as did his grandfather of the same name , and he was for five years the city remembrancer until his early death in 1932 . |
| 15 | Incubation was for 10 minutes at 30°C . |
| 16 | In January 1940 the requirement was for eleven cars , but this sometimes rose to fifteen , and a special siding was constructed at Rossall . |
| 17 | She followed him up the large curved staircase and decided that even if this was for one night only , she would be happy . |
| 18 | The initial plan was for one 24-hour stoppage , but if management did not respond this could turn into a rolling programme of one-day strikes . |
| 19 | So in Banbury and in Newport local Unionists were assured that the deal was for one election only . |
| 20 | All that was needed was for one kind of film to do well at the box-office and a new Hollywood format would be established . |
| 21 | All it took was for one saleslady to tell her she looked lovely and Mrs McMahon was persuaded . |
| 22 | Because , technically , his jail sentence was for one year , Nkrumah could register as a voter and then stand for election . |
| 23 | Eh , and they , I mean they did n't say whether it was for one year or three years in that piece of paper anyway did they ? . |
| 24 | If an individual peasant family was for one reason or another unable to produce its share of tax a peasant might borrow , do additional work as a paid labourer or craftsman or forfeit his land rights to another . |
| 25 | The defect in the Act which the reintroduction of the intention to incite racial hatred was intended to remedy was that where the recipient of the material was for one reason or another unlikely to be moved to racial hatred , no offence was committed . |
| 26 | Such activity was for one thing ‘ part of the English temper ’ . |
| 27 | One way of obtaining a permanent record , in the nineteenth century , was for one observer to watch the galvanometer mirror through a telescope and work a key with his finger that operated a signal pen on a smoked drum kymograph . |
| 28 | In the final cycle the extension step was for 5 mins . |
| 29 | Yeah , but I thought Take That was for twelve year olds . |
| 30 | Erm that was for twelve years . |