Example sentences of "for [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 've been off for three or four time before for long a few years and |
| 32 | The concept of ‘ continuing education ’ , for long a part of European thought , is now taking firm root , even in the UK . |
| 33 | He saw no prospect of avoiding for long a head-on collision . |
| 34 | But the country remained for long a backwater in international relations . |
| 35 | One important direction of expansion was southward into the Altai-Sayan mountain region on the border of Mongolia , where the Russian town of Kuznetsk was for long an outpost threatened from west , south and east by the ‘ White Kalmyksn ( Teleuts and other Altaian tribes ) , the Oirats or western Mongols , and the Chinese . |
| 36 | Sadly , Mr Cod was destined to be with them for only a short time . |
| 37 | The children have been back at school for only a month and already I am exhausted . |
| 38 | Studies by McLeod , Becker , and Byrnes ( 1974 ) and Iyengar and Kinder ( 1987 ) , for example , suggest that the media set the agenda for only a part of their audience : those highly reliant on a particular news source , those low in political involvement and information , and those who are relatively inattentive to the news generally — in short , those who are marginal to politics . |
| 39 | And full Parliamentary divorce , which did , accounted for only a handful of divorces . |
| 40 | Nor did they make any serious efforts to derive income from a huge fixed asset , which was used for only a few hours a week . |
| 41 | Thus the interior contained only a single row of nave arcade columns ( Plate 21 ) and the comparative narrowness of the plan meant that there was space for only a range of shallow ancillary rooms — stores , bathrooms and laundry ( Fig 44 ) — on the north side of the ground-floor flats access corridor once dwellings of suitable size , restricted to the spans of the nave arcade bays , had been accommodated . |
| 42 | But I looked for only a moment . |
| 43 | I might have saved myself the trouble , as the family remained together for only a short time afterwards ; my sisters married , leaving only my mother and myself at home … |
| 44 | New York 's mayor , David Dinkins , has been in office for only a year , so is obviously not responsible for these decades of neglect . |
| 45 | Joint ventures account for only a small part of Hungary 's company start-up boom . |
| 46 | Almost all philosophically minded people of Clement 's age , except for only a tiny handful of Epicureans , took it for granted that the order of the world reflects a designing providential hand . |
| 47 | Some horses who suffer chronic anxiety due to poor management or handling , already have a sufficiently high background of stress for only a single stressful incident , like injury , illness , or a new home , to precipitate them into colic or some other illness . |
| 48 | Ford is budgeting for only a slight improvement on last year 's 1.6m market and has abandoned hopes of sales reaching 1.74m , while Peugeot Talbot is projecting a standstill . |
| 49 | This feature allows the virus to persist in the environment even though its host , the insect larva , may be present for only a few weeks during the year . |
| 50 | He pointed out the importance of having both long and short term memory — ‘ you do n't want to clutter up your brain with information that is irrelevant long term ’ , he said , giving as an example the way you would look at traffic approaching as you crossed a street — you need to recall the situation for only a few seconds . |
| 51 | In many of the large catchments to which the DoE refers , impact of nitrate may now be over the limit for only a week each year , but in future it may be for two weeks , then three , then a month or more : when does the UK propose to take action ? |
| 52 | Lonsdale 's history of women poets through the century allows them to be understood against developments in the poetry written by men whose dominance of fashion was challenged for only a short time toward the end of the period . |
| 53 | But though their name lives on in the region of Tuscany , the Etruscans actually survived for only a short period ; they were expelled from Rome by the Latins and then defeated at the battle of Aricia in 506BC . |
| 54 | A new sole will cost from £7–£15 , depending on the material used , or about £4 for only a heel replacement . |
| 55 | Tests at very high temperatures need be , and should be , continued for only a short period , i.e. , for days or a few weeks rather than months . |
| 56 | Thus the Baileys ' garden was L-shaped , and the remaining portion of Tullivers ' land , a mere quarter of an acre , allowed room for only a lawn , a few mature lilac and may trees and the flower border which had been the Admiral 's particular pride . |
| 57 | The problems result from long-term exposure , so families who change homes every few years may not suffer because they are exposed to levels above the action level for only a short time . |
| 58 | This does not mean that they did not liaise with other services for almost ail clients , merely that for only a third of their clients did they obtain or increase the services of other providers . |
| 59 | In all of the forested areas sampled by Eyre , commercial lumber production was responsible for only a proportion of the deforestation . |
| 60 | Why does the snow settle for only a short time on the north west coast ? |