Example sentences of "[noun prp] for [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sweeney has worked at Pentonville for almost nine years and is in charge of the general kitchen floor . |
| 2 | ‘ I have been away from Germany for almost two weeks . |
| 3 | Damien Rosco has worked in the Design Office at Runcorn for nearly two years . |
| 4 | ‘ I was very angry at Phillip Island for about 20 minutes but after that I calmed down . |
| 5 | Wales is almost always treated as though it were an offshoot of England although there is a small group of civil servants in Cardiff for specifically Welsh matters . |
| 6 | I have known Mrs Taylor for over three years . |
| 7 | They fumbled away the game , 37-14 , to the Colts , and lost quarterback Jim Kelly for perhaps four weeks with a shoulder separation . |
| 8 | And back in 1945 , Vice-Marshall Donald Bennett , a Liberal , was MP for West Middlesbrough for just 31 days . |
| 9 | He was a businessman , an entrepreneur whose roller-coaster fortunes had taken the family to Puerto Rico and Costa Rica for about four years . |
| 10 | Stapleton told me that he and his sister had lived in Devonshire for only two years . |
| 11 | plans to stay in Romania for about two years . |
| 12 | Ralph was associated with Gloucester by 1477 , possibly after an earlier flirtation with Northumberland , and his arrival in the duke 's service marks the end of a feud which had split the Nevilles for over forty years . |
| 13 | Ralph was associated with Gloucester by 1477 , possibly after an earlier flirtation with Northumberland , and his arrival in the duke 's service marks the end of a feud which had split the Nevilles for over forty years . |
| 14 | The effect off the coast of Ecuador is twofold : first , the waters off the Ecuadorian coast ( a few degrees north and south of the equator ) are unusually cold — indeed , so powerful is the upwelling that a belt of this oddly cold water extends west from Ecuador for nearly 3,000 miles . |
| 15 | She has been an ally of Portugal for over 600 years . |
| 16 | the RAF at Ely for so many days and have |
| 17 | The ex-250 world champion ( 1969 with Benelli ) had been with Yamaha for over 20 years but after the collapse of Giacomo Agostini 's 500 team , Carruthers found himself out of the heat of competition . |
| 18 | Tullivers , as it was called , had been the home of old Admiral Josiah Trigg and his sister Lucy for almost thirty years , and when he died , suddenly one hot afternoon , after taking the sharp hill from the town at a spanking pace , his sister continued to muddle along in a vague , amiable daze for another eighteen months before succumbing to bronchitis . |
| 19 | ‘ I had known Bob Payton for about ten years , since he opened the Chicago Pizza Pie Factory . |
| 20 | That was the last time I saw David for about four years . ’ |
| 21 | The death of the latest victim — 40-year-old hairdresser Sean Hughes in west Belfast yesterday — led to calls by local MP Dr Joe Hendron for more high-profile operations by the security forces in loyalist areas . |
| 22 | ‘ My husband has been in the R.A.F. for nearly four years , but we had saved enough for the costs of a normal confinement in a nursing home , and as it was my first baby , we thought it well worth a little extra expense . |
| 23 | It was powerful enough to swallow the heavy might of a world superpower , and to affect that country so greatly , that it dominated the politics in the States for over ten years and massive pressure was put on the government by the US people . |
| 24 | In 1888 he joined a Wild West circus and toured the United States for about two years , then sailed to England and established a music-hall act as a sharpshooter . |
| 25 | Saboteurs from Oxford had been following them on Saturday for around five hours before the incident . |
| 26 | Harper said : ‘ I went out with Rebecca for about three months , then I went out with Emma . |
| 27 | An authentic Welsh version was , according to Lady Llanover 's Good Cookery ( 1867 ) once upon a time made with ewe 's milk cheese ( Lady Llanover lived in Monmouthshire for about ninety years ) , now presumably obsolete . |
| 28 | After 6 hours , the medium was aspirated and replaced with 30% ( v/v ) DMSO in αMEM plus 1% FBS for exactly 4 minutes at room temperature . |
| 29 | But the court heard that after the defendant had been left alone on the ward with Katie for about ten minutes , she had turned blue and stopped breathing . |
| 30 | Over Christmas and the New Year , the best place to be is Disneyworld in Florida for truly magical celebrations . |