Example sentences of "[noun prp] for [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that he was content to stay as a house guest of Sir John Popham for quite a while , though it has been suggested he was thrown into a debtor 's prison shortly after the event . |
| 2 | ‘ He was Rainer Schickert for only a year and a few months — and mostly in hiding . |
| 3 | When their mother died in 1778 she was sent away to Halifax , to stay with her mother 's cousin , Miss Elizabeth Threlkeld , for nine years ; she then lived at Penrith with her grand-parents , seeing William for only a short time , and from 1789 to 1794 was away from the Lake District again , in the care of her uncle and aunt at Forncett in Norfolk . |
| 4 | ‘ She said she had been locked in a flat in Moston for about a week and had been injected with drugs during that time . |
| 5 | Iris has known Philippe for quite a long time . |
| 6 | She hesitated for a moment before adding in a lowered voice , ‘ She 's known Philippe for quite a while , but I do n't think she ever realised … ’ |
| 7 | At the end of July and beginning of August a group of six Drouot experts , headed by the president of the company Joël-Marie Millon , were in Moscow for almost a week offering free estimates to the Muscovites on their works of art , antiques and jewellery . |
| 8 | Bruce added : ‘ Things had n't been going well with Phonogram for quite a while . |
| 9 | Apart from the doctor and his wife and Giles Carnaby they were all people from the village who had not had an opportunity for a good look at the inside of Greystones for quite a while and were busy taking note . |
| 10 | The suspension of Mrs Kemp for over a year with no reasons being given by the local authority , caused grave misgivings in Orkney . |
| 11 | ‘ I had known David for quite a long time ; we come from Cambridge and I knew him vaguely in the early days — I remember when he joined the Floyd in fact — and I 'd seen him socially over the years . |
| 12 | I last visited Mexico for almost a month during May and June 1989 . |
| 13 | He had been in the States for only a few months . |
| 14 | Wang Ruowang , a prominent writer and dissident , was unexpectedly released on Oct. 29 after being held in detention in Shanghai for over a year . |
| 15 | I picked some black carbon fibre frames which had been signed by an Italian designer , made in Japan and retailed in England for over a hundred quid . |
| 16 | Well the first thing is that the City Council is charged with the defence of common land that and Port Meadow is a piece of common land that 's been in the possession of the people of Oxford and Oxfordshire and of England for over a thousand years . |
| 17 | Henry VIII , in the 1530s , had begun to encourage Renaissance work by importing Italian craftsmen , but his break with the Pope over his religious and marital problems postponed the arrival of the Renaissance in England for nearly a century . |
| 18 | I 've known Heather for quite a while — a sort of on-and-off relationship , I suppose . |
| 19 | I continued my visits to Miss Havisham for almost a year . |
| 20 | You sail turnwise from the Brown Islands for about a week and there it is . |
| 21 | She had been living in Crow Court off Vetch Street for nearly a week , and the narrow lives of the people among whom she found herself appalled her . |
| 22 | But in October 1951 , when Ramsey had professed at Cambridge for exactly a year , Churchill came back to power . |
| 23 | I 've known Newley for quite a while now . |
| 24 | It used to be in Bournemouth , they had it at Bournemouth for quite a few years . |
| 25 | We had owned the Sumatras for just a few months , but already we had seen that they are volatile and eccentric birds , much given to sudden screech-ups and bouts of cackling , which in other chickens would denote the arrival of an egg , but from them seem to signify only that they have given themselves a fright . |
| 26 | He added : ‘ I have been visiting North Tees for over a year now and there is no doubt in my mind that the majority of staff want the trust and are looking forward to it . ’ |
| 27 | I had worked as an assistant in Mothercare for quite a few years , so I took out a discount card with them when I was pregnant and I bought everything there at 20 per cent discount . |
| 28 | Interpol has been called in to try and help trace a man who 's been missing in Bosnia for almost a year . |
| 29 | Then I worked for Jimmy Young for quite a long time … he saved my bacon . |
| 30 | Gross and widespread human rights violations have afflicted Peru for almost a decade . |