Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [be] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new Landrat of Gunzenhausen , a former Franconian bastion of National Socialism , wrote in his first monthly report after the end of the Third Reich , in August 1945 : ‘ Although the war has only been over for a few months , National Socialism is hardly ever spoken about , and when at all , only in a negative sense . |
| 2 | It 's 0700 on the 30 June and my body has already been up for an hour and run four miles . |
| 3 | This team have only been together for less than a year and it is getting better all the time . |
| 4 | Despite the fact that homoeopathy has now been around for close on two hundred years , very little research has been carried out either to attempt to understand how it works , or to prove that it does work . |
| 5 | Another argument is that advertising has only been around for a while , so how can that be the reason for all our hang-ups , but that 's not true either . |
| 6 | Low Birk Hatt Farm has always been home for my family . |
| 7 | ‘ Mere existence had never been enough for him ; he had always wanted something more . ’ |
| 8 | Perhaps not as bad as Buff , because the animal had only been there for a second or two and I had told them it was a robot . |
| 9 | Despite their 20-year age gap , the couple have now been together for eight years and run a pub in Amersham , Bucks . |