Example sentences of "for [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 For rather a lot of money .
2 Having to stop on every other move to bury one hand at a time in the confines of barely warm armpits made for rather a stilted ascent , but it was worth it .
3 However , in a number of cases the variables on the right-hand side of equation ( 6.5 ) account for rather a small proportion of the variance of the left-hand side variable , suggesting that some important influences on have been omitted from the estimating equation .
4 Aware that she had been staring at him for rather a long time , she blinked and asked hastily , ‘ Did you sort out your business ? ’
5 Frankly , I 'd respond more if a chap came up to me and said , ‘ Look here , we 've been doing this for rather a long time now and we find that this way seems to bring the best results . ’ ’
6 Turner from St Michael 's Mission to the Blind , who had been attacked by dacoits a few days earlier and left for dead a few miles out of Shwebo .
7 This is a pity , for arguably an appreciation of both the importance of the social construction of feminity and masculinity and the extent to which fundamental concepts are gendered is necessary before the process by which men and women 's thinking about marriage and divorce can be understood .
8 I suspect that Pound never went further into Aubeterre than this inn , and one needs to have walked in his footsteps from Chalais to Aubeterre to see how he could well have done this , skirting the hill , stopping for perhaps a mid-day meal in the inn , and then pushing on at once for La Tour Blanche .
9 They stood there for perhaps a minute , wondering what to do .
10 ‘ Sometimes a merchant in a souk will settle for perhaps a profit of only five per cent , ’ says Mr Latif of the Moroccan Tourist Board .
11 They had been buried in the bog for perhaps a century , until unearthed by the peat diggers .
12 Most printers would be only too pleased to oblige — for perhaps a modest donation to the tea tin .
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14 Indeed , in a publishing environment where there may be a need for perhaps a dozen word processors but just one page makeup system this approach has strong financial advantages .
15 He read in silence for perhaps a minute , and then turned the scroll over to examine minutely the seal on the obverse .
16 Even so , I hope that the House will forgive me if , after my speech , I am absent from the Chamber for perhaps a quarter of an hour while I go there to congratulate the winners of training awards .
17 By any normal standards , the Al Fayed brothers had been rich men for perhaps a decade or even two .
18 Those who did receive schooling did so for perhaps a year or two , often much less , at some point in their childhood , with hardly any attending school beyond the age of ten or eleven .
19 It had been almost the unofficial waste basket papers were dumped there to be kept but no one had been through it carefully for perhaps a century .
20 ‘ We will be back in the summer for perhaps a couple of days when we have got the bigger picture and can ask more intelligent questions , ’ he said .
21 They used to be in the boxes up the yard , you see , you used to lay them and feed them for perhaps a week before you killed them .
22 This means that it accounts for perhaps a third of the sales of ICI Chemicals & Polymers — about the same proportion as does the latter in the whole of ICI .
23 One is , of course , that an old and tried medicine which has been on use for perhaps a hundred/a hundred and fifty/two hundred years is really a very safe medicine and you wo n't come to much harm by buying it and taking it .
24 The usual pattern is that you take several fish one after the other , and then nothing for perhaps an hour , then several more fish in quick succession , and so on , until either you run out of bait or you have caught the whole shoal .
25 men who have accepted a system of values by which to live , can not without courting in-efficiency and chaos keep for long a fenced-off portion of their lives where they think and behave according to a contrary set of values .
26 Altruistic behaviour , for long a puzzle to evolutionists , may now be explained largely in terms of kin selection for the inclusive fitness of individuals .
27 The London County Council , for long a stronghold of the Labour party , was one of the relatively few authorities to press firmly in this direction in the immediate post-war years .
28 Tersteeg , his ex-employer and for long a friend of the family , wrote him a disapproving letter .
29 He wrote articles for the magazine of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society , of which he was a founder , and for long a member of council .
30 His second great contribution was the functional method in anthropology , which despite its defects was for long a valuable associational mode of approach to the study of human behaviour and social institutions .
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