Example sentences of "[noun sg] for [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider then this year 's winner , the Mayan Indian peace-worker , Rigoberta Menchu , who has campaigned for the rights of Guatemala 's oppressed indigenous majority for over a decade . |
| 2 | Which is why most women , when asked what they first look for in a man , reply ‘ Wit and humour ’ . |
| 3 | young Scarborough goalkeeper Steve Hewitt will be out of action for about a month after fracturing a wrist in training . |
| 4 | One section , eastwards from Ratho for about a mile , has been improved and is well-used by walkers and cyclists — it shows the potential the whole route could have if upgraded . |
| 5 | The poll-tax , a fixed annual levy placed on all tax-paying males regardless of age , together with the rent imposed on state peasants , formed the basis of state revenue for over a century . |
| 6 | Earlier Mr Justice Holland told her she was ‘ fundamentally wicked for plotting murder for over a month . |
| 7 | It struck me one day , walking through the busy market near her home , that I had n't thought about my weight for over a month , that I had been eating without really worrying about it , and that all sorts of desires were surfacing — that the protective layer of my obsession was peeling away . |
| 8 | Brown remained her adviser for over a decade , although she also sought occasional assistance from the painter ( Sir ) Edward Burne-Jones [ q.v . ] . |
| 9 | I 've still got my , er get a car for about a couple of grand . |
| 10 | For years , neglected in the centre of Oxford , it 's been a rest-spot for the weary taxi-driver for over a century and now 's lovingly restored and converted into a shop . |
| 11 | One in 12 people who took part in the survey was without the use of their machine for over a fortnight . |
| 12 | The mill also housed a bakehouse on the lower floor , several bake-ovens set in the rear wall being largely intact , surviving as a reminder of what was once an important local trade , carried on at Aston mill for over a century . |
| 13 | I was in hospital and convalescent for about a month . |
| 14 | And it was er er too big again for them to b become tied in one place for for a whole six months . |
| 15 | The conference , the first general feminist-socialist conference for over a decade , attracted over 400 women from across the country . |
| 16 | Because the company has been on its present site for over a century it recognises its responsibilities to the environment and to the local community . |
| 17 | The deputy commander of the first artillery battalion reported that all its cell members had been so busily engaged on operations amongst the civilian population that there had been no meeting for over a month ( they were probably occupied in some of the unsavoury tasks noted earlier by our peasant soldier and his mother ) . |
| 18 | Erm now could you help me on some of the the terminology used because I gather that six of the packages have been or about to be erm priced on the basis of a ascertained costs erm I I just wondered if if that was a sort of euphemism for for a cost plus . |
| 19 | She had been working every day for over a month , and had not received a penny for her labour . |
| 20 | The snowdrops at Painswick have been a popular attraction for over a century . |
| 21 | and you use this stuff for about a month use this stuff is quite soft . |
| 22 | Beccaria 's offer of a less radical alternative , says Jenkins , had the effect of postponing the positivist revolution for over a century . |
| 23 | When he asked if he could see her again the next day , she would not have dreamed of declining ; they saw each other for about a fortnight , and her enthusiasm for him increased with each meeting , though he said not a word of any interest in the whole two weeks . |
| 24 | The measure was primarily designed to raise an additional US$500,000,000 to finance pay increases for 260,000 teachers ( on strike for over a month for an 800 per cent pay rise ) and 85,000 health workers ( on strike for three months for a minimum wage increase of 200 per cent ) . |
| 25 | I mean , it is n't as though we have to operate a policy in which we heavily advertise the availability of grants , it , it can develop via word of mouth , if we advertise anything , we would be inundated with demand for to a level that we could n't cope with . |
| 26 | The Company did not send expeditions of its own into this area for over a century ; like the East India and the Royal Africa Companies it established trading posts and waited for the local inhabitants to come and trade at them . |
| 27 | The large brick blast furnace was built with its tiers of arches at the beginning of the nineteenth century , and was producing iron for about a century and a half . |
| 28 | The exceptions were in four main areas : in the west during the first onslaughts when the khanate of Kuchum was being eliminated ; in the far north-east against the Chukchis and Karnchatkan Itelmens ( here Russian losses may not have been very severe , but the effects on the aboriginal population were catastrophic ) ; in the south-east in the struggle with the Manchus for domination of the Amur , where the Russians were beaten ; and finally in the south-west against the nomadic horsemen of the steppes who were a thorn in the Russians ' flesh for over a century . |
| 29 | … Caterpillars gorge for about a month … then undergo a metamorphosis inside the chrysalis … to emerge , with unfurled wings , as butterflies |
| 30 | But it appears to me that the whole trend of authority for over a century is clearly against permitting any such investigation . |