Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since Hannah lived in total isolation for more than twenty-five years , never married or even formed a relation ship with a man , it is not surprising that most of the care and affection she had to offer was lavished on animals . |
| 2 | In Hilary term 1313 he was appointed a justice of the Common Bench and served in that capacity for just over three years . |
| 3 | Indeed , mere permission to reside in that country for more than three weeks was strictly limited and one had to satisfy the authorities that one would not become a burden on the state . |
| 4 | ‘ But I 've tried to forget , and I 've lived alone in that house for nearly three years now . |
| 5 | I 'd been welcome in that house for as long as you had-longer , because you were away and I just about lived there . |
| 6 | ‘ She is in a vegetative state and the prognosis is that she will remain in that condition for up to 25 years , ’ said Mr Hodson . |
| 7 | I had somehow supposed her to sit in that room for ever , real only when Hugo or I were with her . |
| 8 | In common with other facilities of LIFESPAN , SPRs and SSRs are retained in magnetic form for as long as the objects to which they refer themselves exist in magnetic form . |
| 9 | Domestic needs for resources are so great that the USSR can not afford to take many losses in Latin America for purely political purposes . |
| 10 | The Institution , however , did not feel able to recommend such a change after the word ‘ diesel ’ had been in universal use for so long . |
| 11 | Except that it if it involved waiting in this corridor for much longer , one of the security cameras might start to register her despite all diversionary moves , and she should therefore now take a break of at least six hours before coming back here . |
| 12 | Merlyn said , irritably : ‘ Well , come on , Ben , we ca n't stand in this passage for ever . ’ |
| 13 | I have been sitting in this armchair for about an hour . |
| 14 | I have come to see you because that Mr R said to my son ‘ If you do n't like it here then go back where you came from and where you belong ’ and I was so upset at that because my son was born here and I have lived in this country for over twenty years and how dare he say that , because my son comes from here . |
| 15 | We have played in this country for both Lancashire and Surrey county cricket clubs and have bowled hundreds of overs for both counties . |
| 16 | It is his first gallery exhibition in this country for more than five years and follows the exhilarating survey which took place at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1989 . |
| 17 | Its American equivalent , the New Yorker , has been read for its advertisements in this country for as long as I can remember . |
| 18 | The essential question that voters should be asking Mr Fallon and which he and his Government have resolutely thus far refused to answer , is whether this Government will honour the educational and religious guarantee , accepted in this country for almost 50 years , that sufficient places will be provided in Catholic schools for Catholic pupils . |
| 19 | And apparently a colleague of mine gave a paper this morning saying that Kent was vulnerable to earthquakes erm even though earthquakes have not been recorded or at least not substantial ones in this country for perhaps two , three hundred years erm there is a history of earthquakes in , particularly in the sort of Colchester , Essex , Kent region , and erm the erm the historians and the pundits tell us that erm they may come back again so perhaps we ought to reinforce our buildings now . |
| 20 | Preliminary studies confirmed that pepsin was stable when stored in this way for up to seven months . |
| 21 | After the dung has been processed in this way for about six weeks , the termites are able to eat and digest it , fungal threads , white knobs , residue and all . |
| 22 | A. There are , but we 've been in this business for nearly 200 years and pride ourselves in the fact that we have probably dealt with every known problem that has ever arisen . |
| 23 | Leonie von Wilckens has been working in this area for over thirty years from her base at the German National Museum in Nuremberg , home of a major textile collection . |
| 24 | I have been living in this area for over a year now , and I still have n't made any friends . |
| 25 | ‘ We were able to gain a strong position in this area for less than $300,000 per lease and no drilling commitment . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It would make a nice change to have something happening in this place for once . |
| 27 | ‘ It is something which has gone on in this force for almost two years but has now reached epidemic proportions and something has to be done , ’ he declared . |
| 28 | I 've now been in this game for about eighteen years and I suppose thirteen of them I did n't have two beans to rub together . |
| 29 | A family of cow doctors worked in this region for over three centuries ; this family is now represented by Dr John Walker , who has a veterinary practice in Hook Norton , near Long Compton . |
| 30 | They were n't there in the they were n't in this office for very long before they disappeared elsewhere . |