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For and over
For the making of selections on the basis of excellence requires that any foundation making the selections shall have available the judgments of a corps of advisors whose judgments are known to be good: such judgments can be known to be good only by the records of those selected, by records made subsequent to their selection over considerable periods of time.
For some time this writer has been suggesting a Junior Judging Class for Intermediates over 16 and under 20 years of age who are ineligible to compete in the Junior Class.
For vector spaces over non-algebraically closed fields, we still need to find some substitute for characteristic values and vectors.
`` For three days now a German reconnaissance plane has been over the city taking pictures.
For over the years he had received many such calls.
For this does not account for the integral, elemental power of that which grows with abounding vigor as the play unfolds, nor does it explain the strange numinous sense of presentness which comes over those who watch the play like a spell.
he would look right through you while you were talking to him, and if you said, `` For Christ's sake, Donald, you've got Prussian blue all over your shirt '', he would smile, and nod, and an hour later the paint would be all over his pants as well.
For this purpose he visited the Diet of Nuremberg in 1522, where he made the acquaintance of the Reformer Andreas Osiander, by whose influence Albert was won over to Protestantism.
For many years there was confusion amongst botanists over the generic names Amaryllis and Hippeastrum, one result of which is that the common name " amaryllis " is mainly used for cultivars of the genus Hippeastrum, widely sold in the winter months for their ability to bloom indoors.
For private suits the minimum jury size was 201 ( increased to 401 if a sum of over 1000 drachmas was at issue ), for public suits 501.
For example, those who drank over 3 units a day had nearly twice the risk of a hip fracture.
For the rest of the two spacecrafts ' pass over the near side of the Moon, Mattingly prepared to shift Casper to a circular orbit while Young and Duke prepared Orion for the descent to the lunar surface.
For example, the number of solutions of an equation over a finite field reflects the topological nature of its solutions over the complex numbers.
For simplicity, we shall here use the shorthand notation for representing the over operator.
Also, supporters of this view would characterize Luke ’ s portrayal of the Roman Empire as positive because they believe Luke “ glosses over negative aspects of the empire and presents imperial power positively .” For example, when Paul is before the council defending himself, Paul says that he is “ on trial concerning the hope of the resurrection of the dead ” ( Acts 23: 6 ).
For according to them, there were seven islands in that sea in their time, sacred to Persephone, and also three others of enormous size, one of which was sacred to Hades, another to Ammon, and another one between them to Poseidon, the extent of which was a thousand stadia ; and the inhabitants of it — they add — preserved the remembrance from their ancestors of the immeasurably large island of Atlantis which had really existed there and which for many ages had reigned over all islands in the Atlantic sea and which itself had like-wise been sacred to Poseidon.
For three hundred years, beginning with bishop Ansgar, the Hamburg-Bremen archbishopric had been designated as the " Mission of the North " and had jurisdiction over all missions in Scandinavia, North-Western Russia, Iceland and Greenland.
For example, the Barony of Grey of Codnor was in abeyance for over 490 years between 1496 and 1989, and the Barony of Hastings was similarly in abeyance for over 299 years from 1542 to 1841.
For comparison, the equator of the Sun requires just over 25 days for a complete rotation.
For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 87. 4 males.
For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97. 5 males.

For and hundred
For almost a hundred years we relied upon state courts ( subject to review by the Supreme Court ) for the protection of most rights arising under national law.
For instance, in 1962, Bob Jones, Sr. warned the Greenville City Council that he had “ four hundred votes in his pocket and in any election he would have control over who would be elected .”
For example the People's Bank of China and the Bank of Japan have on occasion bought several hundred billions of U. S. Treasuries, presumably in order to stop the decline of the U. S. dollar versus the renminbi and the yen.
For example, the Aztecs used a system in which one turkey cost one hundred cacao beans and one fresh avocado was worth three beans.
For instance, the name " Lord Sto Odin " in the story " Under Old Earth " is derived from the Russian words for " One hundred and one ", сто один.
For example, while burning an area of fairly thick forest and thus turning it into a more open, grassy environment might reduce the viability of a large browser ( an animal that eats leaves and shoots rather than grasses ), the reverse could also be true: removing the browsing animals ( by eating them, or by any other means ) within a few years produces a very thick undergrowth which, when a fire eventually starts through natural causes ( as fires tend to do every few hundred years ), burns with greater than usual ferocity.
The famed apologist St. Justin Martyr ( c. 150 ) wrote: " No one else is permitted to partake of it, except one who believes our teaching to be true ...." For the first several hundred years, non-members were forbidden even to be present at the sacramental ritual ; visitors and catechumens ( those still undergoing instruction ) were dismissed halfway through the Liturgy, after the Bible readings and sermon but before the Eucharistic rite.
* Business historian Robert Sobel wrote For Want of a Nail, a fictional history of an alternate North America which included hundreds of fictional footnotes and a bibliography listing over a hundred fictional histories and biographies.
For instance, a club membership list may contain only a hundred or so member names, out of the very large set of all possible names.
For example, Hungarian ház " house " vs. Khanty xot " house ", and Hungarian száz " hundred " vs. Khanty sot " hundred ".
For the past hundred years there has been an abundance of evidence that psychological and physiological changes could be produced by hypnotism which were worth study on their own account, and also that such changes might be of great service in the treatment of patients.
For almost one hundred years thereafter, mathematicians like Richard Courant viewed infinitesimals as being naive and vague or meaningless.
For over a hundred years the steam engine was the king of the industries.
For more than one hundred years, English and French trading companies had fought one another for supremacy, and by the middle of the 18th century competition between the British and the French had heated up.
For you interpret the ' time ' as being a hundred years.
For the next hundred years, the Kingdom of Jerusalem clung to life as a tiny kingdom hugging the Syrian coastline.
For some hours yesterday there were never less than a couple of hundred persons waiting their turn of admission, and yet, after all, the diamond does not satisfy.
For example, the Aztecs used a system in which one turkey cost one hundred cacao beans and one fresh avocado was worth three beans ; and all of the areas conquered by the Aztecs that grew cacao beans were ordered to pay them as a tax, or as the Aztecs called it, a " tribute ".
For over one hundred years, Venetian mirrors installed in richly decorated frames served as luxury decorations for palaces throughout Europe, but the secret of the mercury process eventually arrived in London and Paris during the 17th century, due to industrial espionage.
For example, the paperback editions of Cryptonomicon are over eleven hundred pages long with the novel containing various digressions, including a lengthy erotic story about antique furniture and stockings.
For if ... it lasts for two hundred years that is a long time.
For instance, in one section of the De Copia, Erasmus presents two hundred variations of the sentence " Semper, dum vivam, tui meminero.

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