Example sentences of "[noun pl] for [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For although the two stood with their heads for once on a level pegging , the size of their shadows differed to no small degree . |
| 2 | The punishments included forfeiture of remission , single cell confinements , restrictions upon access to the canteen and , more controversially , the stopping of letters and visits for up to a month . |
| 3 | From here you walk north-east following forest paths and tracks for just under a mile . |
| 4 | The company therefore said that salesmen must agree to a new restrictive covenant which barred them from soliciting customers for up to a year after leaving . |
| 5 | THE prospect of a rise in interest rates and mortgage costs if Labour wins on Thursday is prompting some borrowers to lock into fixed rate loans for up to a decade . |
| 6 | The extent of the practice is , however , obscured by the widespread custom that permitted tenants to make demises for up to a year — in some places as much as three — without licence from the lord of the manor . |
| 7 | Undertakers would give the poor no credit and , whilst efforts were being made to raise cash , corpses remained on their deathbeds for up to a fortnight . |
| 8 | Acknowledging the problems of information confidentiality and the need to retain machine-readable records for up to a hundred years before they can be publically released , it still seems feasible for the various interested parties to forge links in order to share expertise and avoid the needless duplication of effort . |
| 9 | The fund will provide grants for up to a thousand pounds for these organisations to spend on such training . |