Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Proceedings invariably dragged on for eighteen months . |
| 2 | Immigration laws inherited from the former East German state , which were due to expire on January 1st , are being allowed to carry on for Soviet Jews arriving in Berlin . |
| 3 | Cos a boy in standard five could be getting on for thirteen . |
| 4 | It 's probably getting on for thirteen . |
| 5 | Of the total 79 referrals received between October 1987 and March 1988 , the NSPCC team dealt with 50 cases alone , jointly investigated one with social services department staff and referred the remainder on for various reasons for example , secondary task work . |
| 6 | These lights are in one-to-one relationships with certain key registers of the machine and actually express the binary numbers in them ( a light being off for 0 and on for 1 ) . |
| 7 | Like all long-term coughers he had developed a noise-reducing technique , and all that could be heard was a chuck-chuck-chuck sound that would go on for long minutes at a time , gradually winding down like a clockwork drummer until every scrap of air was squeezed out of his poor concrete lungs . |
| 8 | Food , of course , remains a topic of passionate concern — the focus of minor complaints and disagreements which rumble on for long periods — and outbursts of contentment which are extremely short-lived . |
| 9 | Kitchen floors need to be tough enough to withstand all sorts of spills , grease and damp , comfortable enough to stand on for long periods , and handsome to look at . |
| 10 | McNamara already had the first spot in the bag and Moniz was out , so the battle was on for second place . |
| 11 | ‘ Got to observe strict ARP , you see , Miss , though here we are gettin' on for five months of war and not a peep out of a Jerry plane . |
| 12 | Let him go ’ , so the interpreter sat down and M. Ver carried on for five minutes more . |
| 13 | And friendship with Clan Diarmaid , that we 've been fighting off and on for five generations ! |
| 14 | Now it was getting on for five o'clock . |
| 15 | This went on for five whole days — |
| 16 | Then began a remarkable conversation which went on for some time ; it was getting on for five when she left . |
| 17 | Efforts to procure his extradition , which have been going on for five years , and which seemed for a time to have been successful , have now been thwarted , at least for the moment . |
| 18 | ABBERLEY : Getting on for five in the morning . |
| 19 | Just leave lotion on for five minutes . |
| 20 | Er somewhere about Aye getting on for five five foot long . |
| 21 | Is he aware that the negotiations have been going on for five years , that we must have a replacement for the multi-fibre arrangement that will enable our textiles to penetrate the markets of countries which do not allow any textiles in and those with tariffs of 200 per cent. , and that even the United States has a tariff of 36 per cent . |
| 22 | Did very well there , getting on for five hundred pounds . |
| 23 | I think it 's something is n't it getting on for five hundred for the whole year was n't it . |
| 24 | The conflict has already dragged on for five years ; thousands have died . |
| 25 | Negotiations had been going on for 17 months before the strike . |
| 26 | The lights are on for twelve hours a day , and filtration is by two Fluval 4s . |
| 27 | ‘ You hung on for twelve years . ’ |
| 28 | By the time they had got the room cleared up and were ready to go out it would be getting on for twelve . |
| 29 | Yeah the other the other factor is now that that data is getting on for twelve months old |
| 30 | Leek out , had this heart trouble , and he 'd been in the Signals about oh ten year , he , he was on for twelve engagement and he nearly completed it when he had this heart trouble . |