Example sentences of "[adv] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hot gases from pyrites burners , mixed with steam , were passed over small blocks of moulded salt , a process which worked successfully for many years ; the works was absorbed by the United Alkali Co. in 1890 and the last Hargreaves–Robinson saltcake plant closed in 1918 . |
| 2 | The export department of Stoddard Carpets has been operating successfully for 26 years . |
| 3 | In 1961 , Arnold Claisse became President , a post he held most successfully for 10 years , during which the niggles about the bondholding autocracy increased and first surfaced formally at the 1970 Annual General Meeting . |
| 4 | A principal aim is , of course , to present the pupils successfully for external exams . |
| 5 | A former bus driver , illness forced him to give up the DIAL office at Kingsley which he ran successfully for two years . |
| 6 | He moved to Australia to box professionally , and fought there successfully for ten years until his attempt at the Australian middleweight title in 1890 , when he was defeated by Jim Hall . |
| 7 | A spokesman for the county council said : ‘ Before that unfortunate incident it had been working very successfully for several hours . |
| 8 | However , quite small areas of land can be used successfully for conservation programmes , provided they are kept free of pesticides and contain the plants on which butterflies feed , such as clover , thistles and stinging nettles . |
| 9 | The fusion reaction has in fact technically been achieved at the Princeton Tokomak fusion test reactor which operated successfully for 50 milliseconds . |
| 10 | D. The managers know that labour is available locally for new industries . |
| 11 | We 've been retrying to get recognition nationally and locally for fifteen years . |
| 12 | In the reign of Henry III they accounted for the agistment dues at the Exchequer , but made substantial payments into the Wardrobe from time to time , and paid out sums locally for such purposes as the maintenance of a neighbouring royal castle , building operations , the enclosure of a royal park , and the expenses incurred by the Forest officers in taking venison for the king . |
| 13 | Despite an approaching typhoon which ordinarily would have left the streets deserted , the march attracted 40,000 people - the largest political demonstration locally for 20 years . |
| 14 | Despite such criticisms , Scottish mental health services have often been in the vanguard of community care developments , with services evolving locally for pragmatic reasons . |
| 15 | But that 's for a mobility assistant where I go in and befriend somebody and they employ me to take them somewhere for two hours . |
| 16 | From March 1645 , when he became deputy licenser to Rushworth , until March 1647 when both men were dismissed , presumably for political reasons , Mabbott 's name appears regularly in the Stationers ' Company register . |
| 17 | In the Seine basin , landlords created hospitia , free tenures , presumably for similar reasons . |
| 18 | If the birth of her child was to take place in London as had been arranged , then presumably for some weeks beforehand she would have to remain in the Harley Street flat , kicking her heels or at least suffering the kicks inside her , which she had greatly come to resent . |
| 19 | Despite natural hardships and TB ( which he resisted remarkably for twenty years ) , he loved life passionately . |
| 20 | Graduate job prospects ‘ worst for 60 years . ’ |
| 21 | The great metabolic activity of insects during flight is indicated by their greatly increased oxygen consumption under these conditions ( e.g. Davis and Fraenkel , 1940 ) and as flight continues uninterruptedly for many hours in some species , a reserve of oxidizable material is required ( Sacktor , 5970 ) . |
| 22 | We found a neat village south of Peterlee called Elwick , complete with tree-decked , green , Tabatha Twitchet shop and two super pubs , where we lived uneasily for three years . |
| 23 | 1,453 were arrested and processed in mobile booking offices , mostly for petty offences like delinquent traffic tickets or curfew violations . |
| 24 | These are active and sociable holidays , mostly for two weeks , for 30 to 40 guests at a time . |
| 25 | Here are some ways of using cardboard cones , mostly for green-fingered knitters . |
| 26 | Thus we have low status , low paid women care assistants , given little overt recognition for the demanding and difficult task they do , caring mostly for elderly women . |
| 27 | Consultations , mostly for minor ailments , are characteristically brief . |
| 28 | The generation of power from nuclear fission , generating intense radioactivity , has been developed and used commercially for several decades to meet part of the world demand for electrical energy . |
| 29 | They do not occur naturally , but were produced commercially for 50 years , beginning in 1929 . |
| 30 | The cathedral suffered grievously in the First World War , being bombarded mercilessly for four years , during which time it suffered 300 direct hits . |