Example sentences of "[pers pn] be for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His was for thirty-five years the pre-eminent retail business at the upper end of the market , supplying tableware and massive buffet plate to the jewel house and the Russian court ( Tsarinas Anna and Catherine , and Count Brobinski ) . |
| 2 | If we do n't know where you are for twelve months or more we have to assume you have abandoned your child . |
| 3 | The private sector did n't know where you were for two years . |
| 4 | For most of his career Tolkien was a most extreme example of a man with this second urge strongly developed : he was fascinated by names , to give only one example , part of whose nature is that they are for one thing and one thing alone , very hard to reduce to system ! |
| 5 | Although many lone parents work , Table 4 shows that earnings from employment are less likely to be their main source of income than they are for two parent families although for both groups this will be affected by fluctuations in employment and unemployment . |
| 6 | And er it was all paid for , you know and it 's for three months , and then they 're getting six weeks off I think and he went to do some fishing down in Canada and all that . |
| 7 | It 's for 15 weeks , so it is worth it I suppose . |
| 8 | You know how difficult it is for two women to live together , especially if they 're mother and daughter . |
| 9 | Sometimes , it 's cheaper for a whole family to travel than it is for one person . |
| 10 | It is for one year . |
| 11 | I 'm psyched up to make an appearance on Wednesday if I get the chance , whether it is for one minute or 10 . ’ |
| 12 | It finishes tomorrow and it was for fifteen days . |
| 13 | And Norma was trying to persuade , because , it was for two adults and two children , she was trying to persuade them to take the boys with them . |
| 14 | Eh , and they , I mean they did n't say whether it was for one year or three years in that piece of paper anyway did they ? . |
| 15 | It was for three years only , but it was a promising stepping-stone to a proper appointment . |
| 16 | He was for nine years Consultant Architect to Llandaff Cathedral until his retirement . |
| 17 | They had one son and three daughters ; their son , John Bridge Aspinall , became a QC , as did his grandfather of the same name , and he was for five years the city remembrancer until his early death in 1932 . |
| 18 | He was for 55 years Professor of Geology at Trinity College , Cambridge , a friend of Wordsworth and Darwin . |
| 19 | A chartered accountant , he was for 18 years managing director of Allied-Lyons Embassy Hotels Group , and five years managing director of the PROSIT Hotels and Tourism Consultancy . |