Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] for [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been into this look for quite a while now , I know the rules . |
| 2 | He continued to hide this condition for almost a week , until he collapsed during a break in rehearsals , and was rushed to hospital . |
| 3 | Then one of the four buys the stakes of the other three : suddenly , that single investor emerges with almost a fifthof a quoted company ; the stake — a high platform for any a potential bidder — has been built far more cheaply than if one person had bought alone . |
| 4 | And then erm they eggs would be in this incubator for about a week and then they used to arrange coops for them to go out do you see , we used to fence a field below the mansion , , in the field there , because there was a good in enclosure right round the two drives and then there were shelter you see . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , start-up Echo Logic , the Bell Labs Inc spin-off being funded by AT&T Ventures Corporation , the phone company 's venture arm , has announced a pact with Apple Computer Inc that it 's apparently had in its back pocket for over a year . |
| 6 | Start-up Echo Logic , the Bell Labs Inc spin-off being funded by AT&T Ventures Corporation , the phone company 's venture arm , last week announced a pact with Apple Computer Inc that it 's apparently had in its back pocket for over a year . |
| 7 | I have been living in this area for over a year now , and I still have n't made any friends . |
| 8 | I have been sitting in this armchair for about an hour . |
| 9 | For it 's no use looking to this novel for even a premonition of a cleansed Russia sitting at the feet of Jesus . |
| 10 | If she eased up on this will for just a moment , love would fly away like a bird released from its cage . |
| 11 | I thought about this conversation for quite a while afterwards . |
| 12 | A couple of days , he 'd said , but he ended up staying in the Commercial Hotel for almost a year . |
| 13 | Periodic bouts of fixed or artificially determined exchange rates have been the curse of this country for almost a hundred years — by pricing our goods out of world markets and , through high interest rates , by forcing up the cost of capital here . |
| 14 | It set back this possibility for nearly a decade , until after the slump had sent unemployment to twice the ‘ unacceptable ’ level of 1923 and the pattern of politics had once again been changed . |
| 15 | Bernard the chamberlain held his high office for only a few months , in 829 – 30 . |
| 16 | With my wife 's reluctant agreement ( she did not fancy being left on her own with our two year old son for over a week ) , we started to plan our journey . |
| 17 | Unemployment has fallen to its lowest level for almost a year . |
| 18 | Steam on the kitchen window cuts off the railway lines , making the tiny kitchen for once a friendly place . |
| 19 | Turn it into an oiled bowl , cover with a polythene bag and leave in a warm place for about an hour or until the dough has doubled in size . |
| 20 | She has welcomed the oppressed and disowned of the world to this paranoiac dreamscape for nearly a hundred years . |
| 21 | However , two changes that have occurred in the power game have been the awakening of concentrated industrial or union power , which rested like a sleeping giant for nearly a century , and the emergence of consumer power . |
| 22 | The Sian area is an absolute treasure house of archaeological and historical relics — the seat of Chinese imperial government for about a thousand years up to 9th c . |
| 23 | Gullholm had been her entire world for almost a fortnight , except for the trip to the nursing home . |
| 24 | In this year 's ITV shake-up Central secured its regional franchise for just a fraction of the price paid by most of its rivals . |
| 25 | Left to its own devices , real ale stays in a drinkable condition for about a week . |
| 26 | The sudden snap of Joseph 's history book closing caused the senator to glance up briefly but he did n't pause in his monologue ; his abstracted gaze followed the younger boy for only a moment as he sauntered away along the deck . |
| 27 | She lingered over her meal , putting off the inevitable homecoming for just a little longer . |
| 28 | The Standing Orders of the Houses are such , however , that no mere eccentric has much chance of disturbing the parliamentary calm for even a few seconds . |
| 29 | These coins give no immediate clues as to their place of minting or indeed their date , for similar coinage in the name of Alexander continued to be made on a large scale for about a hundred years after his death . |
| 30 | I looked into the little mirror for just a moment . |