Example sentences of "for [prep] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er one day I went up there and er erm in there for for over two hours right , and who 's the the P A er used to be er . |
| 2 | Er it did occur to me I mean I was , in my last church , the for for completely different reasons , the question of the timing of the church services , was brought up . |
| 3 | Er there are two examples along the western route corridor of sites which I do refer to in in the statement , Hildebrand Barracks at , an army camp which er is expected to be vacated in the near future , and Queen Ethelbergers which has been vacant now for for almost two years . |
| 4 | Papa left him reasonably well provided for through more orthodox investments , but I imagine it just about breaks even . |
| 5 | It is viewed with some suspicion by staff anxious about the standards of care provided , but there is undoubtedly an advantage to clients , who are able to be cared for in more homely environments rather than long stay wards . |
| 6 | His help was called for in purely local matters , such as the corporation 's attempts to clear fishgarths from the Ouse , but he also pressed the city 's claims at court , and in 1476 was credited with the preservation of York 's liberties by his great labour to the king . |
| 7 | His help was called for in purely local matters , such as the corporation 's attempts to clear fishgarths from the Ouse , but he also pressed the city 's claims at court , and in 1476 was credited with the preservation of York 's liberties by his great labour to the king . |
| 8 | And the lump sugar business , called for in so many recipes , is often exasperating because it is unexplained . |
| 9 | Among the items which therefore never saw light of day was one in which I suggested that there were individual candidates of all the parties in different parts of the country whom one might be tempted to vote for on purely personal grounds . |
| 10 | ‘ Competitive bidding ’ includes any mode of sale whereby prospective purchasers may be enabled to compete for the purchase of articles , whether by way of increasing bids or by the offer of articles to be bid for at successively decreasing prices or otherwise . ’ |
| 11 | This volcanic cone , dormant for at least 3000 years , provides the prized yellow rock from which the moais were carved . |
| 12 | The sovereign powers of the 50 individual states of the Union have declined continuously for at least 120 years and are severely circumscribed or non-existent in many of the major areas of public policy . |
| 13 | The sovereign powers of the individual states of the Union ( now numbering 50 ) have declined continuously for at least 120 years and are severely circumscribed or non-existent in many of the major areas of public policy . |
| 14 | I want to put you under for at least forty-eight hours . |
| 15 | The young tigers are dependent on their mother for at least eighteen months , until the family starts to break up . |
| 16 | At his death he had been married for at least nine years to a wife called Margaret . |
| 17 | And as a bonus , IRAS should be able to send back information for at least nine months , instead of the seven expected at launch . |
| 18 | Britain had exercised tight control over the entry of aliens for as long as anyone could remember and , anyway , there had been little contact between Germany and Britain for at least nine months . |
| 19 | By the end of 1991 it was apparent that the referendum to determine the future of the Western Sahara , which had been scheduled for Jan. 26 , would have to be postponed for at least nine months . |
| 20 | Seal all surfaces with at least two coats of gloss paint ( not vinyl ) , and allow to dry for at least 72 hours before the mirror is fixed . |
| 21 | The field had not been ploughed for at least 80 years ( probably not for more than 150 years ) and there is no record of fertilizer or herbicide ever having been applied . |
| 22 | Your supply will not be cut off for at least fourteen days ( 21 in the case of gas ) to give the council time to help . |
| 23 | Sister said , ‘ So Mr Remington-Hart wo n't touch him for at least fourteen days ? ’ |
| 24 | Mankind has marvelled at diamonds for at least 2000 years . |
| 25 | ( It is possible that the Chinese qinghaosu , a natural drug derived from the medicinal herb quinghao , Artemisia annua , which has been used in China for at least 2000 years , may prove useful . ) |
| 26 | In South-west England tin , copper and other metals have been mined for at least 2000 years from deposits related to Variscan granites ; in the Pennine range of central and northern England over a similar period , lead , and lately fluorite and baryte , have been extracted from vein and replacement deposits in Carboniferous sediments ; in Central Wales , the Isle of Man and the Southern Uplands of Scotland lead and zinc have been mined from vein deposits in Lower Palaeozoic greywackes and in the Lake District copper , lead and zinc have been recovered from a variety of deposits in Lower Palaeozoic sedimentary and volcanic rocks underlain by Caledonian granites . |
| 27 | The miners ' strike of 1984/5 was without doubt one of the most important and serious disputes of its kind for at least sixty years , that is since the General Strike of 1926 . |
| 28 | But in any case it has been clearly apparent to all fieldworking anthropologists for at least sixty years that the various kinds of performance which have , in the past , been assigned to the categories " magic " , " religion " , " magico-religious " , are expressions of artistic creativity rather than misguided attempts to control the material world by mechanical means . |
| 29 | ‘ But Martica Heaner , the hips and thighs expert , said I had to exercise every day for at least 10–15 minutes , and combine that with a calorie-controlled diet , ’ she says . |
| 30 | There has been some form of settlement in Humbleton for at least 900 years and it was mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086 as Humeltone . |