Example sentences of "[adv] for [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also Bosanquet has argued vigorously for over a decade — and has not been alone — that this suggests that younger age cohorts are growing up fitter and will not necessarily need such varied and prolonged care in the future . |
| 2 | but erm so had it been a Foxhalls , something about a minute no , he said only for about a mile , that was it . |
| 3 | I 've been inside for over a decade , the fact that I could be out soon cares me . |
| 4 | They both liked it , and began going out together for about a month until he left to do summer stock in Fishkill , NY , and she went to Philadelphia where she was chosen as a principal dancer with the Pennsylvania Ballet . |
| 5 | We can assume that the Norse invasions of the later ninth and tenth centuries had some influence on the more vulnerable coastal churches , but there was nothing like the disruption which drove many northern bishoprics southwards for over a century . |
| 6 | By 1874 , William Grist , the flock and shoddy magnate , was Using St Mary 's Mill , possibly for around a decade , but by 1890 , the mill again fell silent . |
| 7 | Fingers are being kept firmly crossed at British Coal HQ as it waits to see if faulty roof bolts led to the recent accident at the Stillingfleet colliery , part of the new Selby complex , when the collapse of a roof trapped five miners underground for over a day . |
| 8 | This proceeded uneventfully for about a month with no obvious evidence of either haemolysis or regression of lymphadenopathy . |
| 9 | At the first bump the strap sprang off and the bike fell onto the road , but as the front wheel was still tied on , the bike was dragged behind for over a mile , until vehicles hooting from behind warned me something was amiss . |
| 10 | I 've had a job now for about a month . |
| 11 | I am here for about a fortnight whilst you settle in . |
| 12 | Working-class community life is as strongly established in Glasgow as anywhere , and football violence has occurred there for over a century . |
| 13 | The English had been fishing there for over a century , and had been settled for over fifty years , so they had a strong position for making the French give up any claims to settle there . |
| 14 | You 've been there for over a month . ’ |
| 15 | It had been there for about a fortnight , and was in the right age range . |
| 16 | I was there for about a couple of years and then I moved in into Nottingham on traff on the Traffic Department , you know the people that wear the white hats and , and do people for speeding . |
| 17 | She has n't been there for about a month . |
| 18 | By the 1850s , Freames Mill had been turned over to the manufacture of pins by Perkins , Critchley and Marmont , who were there for around a decade and who later operated on a much larger scale at Wimberley Mills . |
| 19 | Throughout the period between William of Worcester and John Aubrey , and indeed for about a century afterwards , the Gorge changed in appearance . |
| 20 | Yet for over a decade now , the media , medical scientists and the Government 's Warnock Report ( 1984 ) on these developments , have promoted these and other so-called advances as benevolent products of a progressive science . |
| 21 | The two young women quickly washed and dressed before taking flight , not to surface again for over a decade . |