Example sentences of "[be] [adv] for [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are enough for quite extended works . |
| 2 | But what I really liked was his face and we have been together for around five years . |
| 3 | ‘ This outfit has been together for almost three years , everyone knows each other , we all get on and there 's no prima donnas etime . ’ |
| 4 | Sandra said : ‘ It has been a very worthwhile project from the health and safety aspect by a very successful QC team which has been together for almost three years . ’ |
| 5 | He 's been in the business a long time but believe it or not this is the first time he 's been inside for over twenty years . |
| 6 | The loans are normally for very short periods , from overnight to fourteen days , though some lending for three and six months occurs . |
| 7 | On 30 November 1766 , having been away for over three years , the Mozarts returned to Salzburg . |
| 8 | Faith has to return to work ; she had been away for almost two and a half months , but Continental Airlines generously sent Tim to Kupang to see if he could help . |
| 9 | ‘ He has n't been downstairs for over five years . |
| 10 | If their naivety is to be believed , they 're in for more painful disillusionment when someone can bear to break the news to them that the tooth fairy does n't exist and that the singing Madonna is no virgin . |
| 11 | They 're only for very small things . |
| 12 | Millie had been home for nearly three months when she received a letter from Annabel . |
| 13 | But she did say on one occasion , after Cassie had been home for about two days : ‘ How 's that nice young man we met , Cassie ? |
| 14 | ‘ When a person has been underground for so many years it 's a new lease of life ’ ; ‘ it 's just a grand feeling . ’ |
| 15 | Any omissions are usually for quite practical reasons and here the ‘ clay dot ’ position markers have been replaced by the cleaner and harder-wearing cream plastic variety . |
| 16 | Ignore how you feel when you first wake and take note instead of how you feel after you have been up for about ten minutes — many people find those first waking moments difficult to cope with . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ I have been out for nearly 14 months and now there is a great rush to get me back in the squad . |
| 18 | A reader called to say she had a postcard dated 1910 which showed the fire with a notice saying : ‘ This fire has n't been out for over 200 years . ’ |
| 19 | The strong-running Kiwi has been out for around five weeks after a trapped nerve in his back . |
| 20 | There is little systematic evidence of how people in other cultures get on with one another , but it should be noted that within a tribal community there may be such strong libidinal ties among the members that the interrelations among them appear peaceful , and may be so for quite long periods of time . |
| 21 | ‘ I did n't think we 'd be together for so long but we 've grown up together and been through some brutal things . ’ |
| 22 | Even a picture measuring 30 × 25cm ( 12 × 10in ) , which is large enough to display quite a few flowers and takes a fair amount of skill , would only need a backing 30cm ( 12in ) square , so ½m ( ½yd ) of material could be enough for about eight pictures , depending on the width of the material . |
| 23 | I do n't like leaving her on her own too long ( I usually have to be away for about eight hours ) . |
| 24 | Well we can still be away for about four lessons at four thirty so er |
| 25 | Whereas before I 'd be home for perhaps two hours and then away for five months , now I appreciate that there 's a lot more to life . |
| 26 | ‘ If Pears was going to be out for only one or two games I would send for Ironside . |
| 27 | They 're part of the changing retail scene which ranges from the modern shopping centres at one end of the spectrum to squat shops , short term let shops and car boot sales at the other , for the other less source of er retailing , source of purchasing from a decreasing number of people erm trade in car boot sales are subject to the same controls as high street traders basically be product safety , erm , but as well as those problems we are increasingly coming across other problems in particularly counterfeit goods , goods like that on sale at car boot sales , quite attractive , wholly illegal and it wo n't be out for about six or nine months yet . |
| 28 | He damaged ankle ligaments in the defeat at Chesterfield last Saturday and will be out for about three weeks . |
| 29 | I 'll buy some food for you ; I wo n't be back for maybe thirty hours . |
| 30 | I mean in a way I think it 's probably the best thing that 's happened to me for a while cos I could see myself see the thing is I can I was n't ever planning to be here for even six months . |