Example sentences of "in [noun] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She said she had been locked in a flat in Moston for about a week and had been injected with drugs during that time . |
| 2 | At the end of July and beginning of August a group of six Drouot experts , headed by the president of the company Joël-Marie Millon , were in Moscow for almost a week offering free estimates to the Muscovites on their works of art , antiques and jewellery . |
| 3 | You 'll just have to sweet-talk your new chum , Old Red , into requesting the Office to leave you in Marcus for more than one night . ’ |
| 4 | Rain , let's book into a hotel in Nice for tonight . ’ |
| 5 | The Computer Co-ordination Section has been in existence for over five years and too much time is wasted just saying the name . |
| 6 | A key link with the mainland , the Larne-Stranraer route has been in existence for almost 130 years and has become an integral part of Ulster 's maritime heritage . |
| 7 | But it has been in existence for almost as long as there has been detective fiction . |
| 8 | Lisburn have been in existence for more than 150 years and is Ulster 's oldest surviving cricket club . |
| 9 | MURTON Brass Band has been in existence for more than 100 years and to say thank you to the people of the village who have kept the band going , they are to give a concert at the Victoria Club . |
| 10 | For Opposition Members to paint a negative picture of TECs failing to do what they have been set up to do is not good enough , because , after all , they have been in existence for only two years . |
| 11 | I believe that the figures that the hon. Lady gave earlier were for regional development grant rather than for regional selective assistance , which has been in existence for only about three years , as she will recall . |
| 12 | Equally , we must have realistic expectations of TECs and realise that those that have not been in existence for very long — as is the case with our own TEC , which has been going only since April — will take time to work themselves up to their most effective point . |
| 13 | That there is a conventional element in the distinction is shown by the fact that procedures expressed as programs can also be expressed by the hardware structure of machines : the principal programming language of AI is LISP , which has been in existence for about twenty years , but only recently has a ‘ hard-wired ’ LISP-machine been built , one in which the LISP programs are more straight forwardly isomorphic with the operations of the hardware . |
| 14 | Any sign of infestation calls for inspection and treatment by a reputable and approved wood treatment company , one that is likely to stay in existence for as long as its guarantee period . |
| 15 | The idea , however , has been in existence for as long as man has worshipped . |
| 16 | Almost immediately , the Company Commander committed his third platoon , which had been kept in reserve for just such an eventuality . |
| 17 | Burgon and Ball have been making shears in Sheffield for over 200 . |
| 18 | We were , for example , the first company to comply with the ‘ Green Dot ’ requirement in Germany for environmentally friendly packaging . |
| 19 | The Genc family , like the one in Mölln , had lived in Germany for more than 20 years . |
| 20 | In September 1946 an assurance was finally given that American troops would stay in Germany for as long as necessary . |
| 21 | Although claims in negligence for purely financial loss do not generally succeed , it was held that this claim by the owner against the nominated sub-contractor could succeed in negligence ( i.e. even though there was no contract between the owner and sub-contractor ) . |
| 22 | plans to stay in Romania for about two years . |
| 23 | Once love has become your property you will be a lover always , in the grave , at the resurrection , and in Paradise for ever and ever . ’ |
| 24 | The US electronic industries have been in recession for about four years , and Morton 's business in this area is driven by computers , telecommunications and consumer electronics including components for cars , all of which have been hit . |
| 25 | Stapleton told me that he and his sister had lived in Devonshire for only two years . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Those projects observed had been in progress for over a year and most had established a good opening strategy as might be expected from their ability to identify schools with good potential for change . |
| 28 | Between slaying each other by the sword , admittedly , in preparation for more energetic centuries to come … |
| 29 | In preparation for more difficult times ahead , delegates ratified the drastic " Special Period in Time of Peace " austerity programme , adopted in September 1990 , which aimed to stem corruption and achieve food self-sufficiency [ see also p. 38229 ] . |
| 30 | Crawford was seen in Play for Today after the first two episodes in the final series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em had already been shown . |