Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the 3 weeks were up and the Scraggs returned , we looked for other accommodation and found a flat in Riccarton , close to Hagley Park and only a mile from the city centre , and we liked it so much we stayed for four weeks having intended two . |
| 2 | So he stood for ten minutes at the window watching soldiers tossing bundles of equipment into the gurg-ling FV 432s parked around the parade ground and feeling the deep contentment of seeing other people working very hard very early in the day . |
| 3 | And it 's gon na work along the lines of well , if we 're looking at a typical endowment mortgage , yeah , normally they run for twenty-five years , do n't they . |
| 4 | A year later he worked for six months for the Eastern Health and Social Services Board in the Belfast area . |
| 5 | A year later he worked for six months in the Belfast area . |
| 6 | After coming here I worked for four months in a sweet factory in Stratford . |
| 7 | ‘ Last time I was here it rained for forty days . |
| 8 | There I stayed for two days . |
| 9 | There I remained for five years , going on to Theology after History . |
| 10 | Hall offered her a job , and there she stayed for two years working sixty to seventy hours a week and still commuting back to Blackheath , except on press night , which would go on all night , once a fortnight . |
| 11 | Sometimes they went for two months without talking . |
| 12 | Then he drove for 45 minutes to a deserted spot and raped her before dumping his sobbing victim in the village of Cheriton , near Winchester , Hants — 10 miles from where he first struck . |
| 13 | In 1869 they sent him to Peru to supervise running two of their steam ploughs , and there he remained for thirteen years , soon finding scope for his natural business acumen . |
| 14 | Previously he worked for nineteen years in Kirkcaldy as a Shift Manager . |