Example sentences of "[adj] for [adv] many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a large warren complex it is possible for as many warreners to work independently as there is surface space for them to use . |
| 2 | The second component was to create educational and health services as rapidly as possible for as many people as possible , and the third was to achieve some fairer distribution of income between expatriate companies and individuals , and the local indigenous population . |
| 3 | By 4 January 1927 , the full force of Nizan 's anger , repressed for so many years , could no longer be held in check : The effect of the solitude at Aden is that I am storing up a violence that was unknown to me … |
| 4 | ‘ But if it 's the giants you 're wanting to fool , then it 'd be the grand old Draoicht Suan , ’ said Pumlumon , and the Gnomes nodded sagely and said that would be it , the Draoicht Suan it would be , the spell that had kept the Trees fast asleep for so many years now , and was n't it a powerful strong spell and Pumlumon the fellow to be spinning it for them all ? |
| 5 | Later in the same year the MWCo was instrumental in having a receiver appointed to run the railway — a move which may well have helped to keep the BCR alive for so many years . |
| 6 | However , I do feel optimistic that our growing understanding of our diverse cultures and histories , which exposes the myths and stereotypes we have been force-fed by the British for too many generations , will forge an increasingly powerful alliance in our struggle against racism in this country . |
| 7 | If something completely or partly false , however innocuous , can be shown as real for so many years , then anything false can be shown as real , and be believed … . |
| 8 | The domestic energy demand has remained constant for very many years . |
| 9 | The press serves it too well for that to happen and so the problems which have taxed the left for so many years will continue to haunt it in the future . |
| 10 | Virginia Woolf was asked once why she stayed married for so many years to Leonard , a man most of her colleagues found to be her intellectual inferior . |
| 11 | It all went a long way towards explaining why umpires the world over have been reluctant for so many years to restrain cricket 's bouncer-happy fast bowlers . |
| 12 | But the first controversy over appointments between the prestigious London Company , responsible for so many things , and the obscure community 180 difficult miles away occurred in 1601 . |
| 13 | They are , therefore , very similar in size to many of the Scottish districts , but they are not responsible for as many services : housing , for example , a district function in the whole of Britain , is administered centrally in Northern Ireland . |
| 14 | Because the loops are too small for so many trebles they frill up as you can see . |
| 15 | How did Blake manage to keep this in his cell undetected for so many months ? |
| 16 | It is for that reason that , if and when the decision is made to move forward , it would be desirable for as many members of the Community as possible to move collectively . |
| 17 | Any material which runs for half a minute or so is worth considering , and you can stretch these times to any length by repeat-recording them nose-to-tail for as many times as needed to make up the required length . |
| 18 | He unveiled a plaque to commemorate the occasion and told the assembled company : ‘ This is a dream come true for so many people on the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway . ’ |