Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] for [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I continued my visits to Miss Havisham for almost a year . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Mr Hartley , in his final year studying community arts at Newcastle , had been seeing Miss Harrison for about a year . |
| 4 | A pleasure steamer has made the first day trip down the Severn to the Devon coast for almost a century . |
| 5 | She had been feeling like this about Dr Russell for nearly a year . |
| 6 | Anyway , forty six and then we had no house , at all , because my mother had died and my father , we said to my father you leave if you want to we should be alright we 'll find somewhere to go and we did n't and we had to have a Nissan hut for about a year , supplied by the Council |
| 7 | A dispute which had soured Israeli-US relations for over a year ended on Feb. 20 when Baker telephoned Levi to inform him that he had signed a guarantee for a US$400,000,000 loan for the housing of immigrants , mainly Soviet Jews . |
| 8 | Our filming will involve exterior shots only and I would anticipate that we will be at Jodrell Bank for about an hour . |
| 9 | The suspension of Mrs Kemp for over a year with no reasons being given by the local authority , caused grave misgivings in Orkney . |
| 10 | ‘ He was Rainer Schickert for only a year and a few months — and mostly in hiding . |
| 11 | Products containing NutraSweet 's Simplesse have been available in the US market for over a year , but were only launched in the UK earlier this year . |
| 12 | Moszkowicz added : ‘ I served on the Darlington board for about a year because I misread Football League rules . |
| 13 | A specialist in seventeenth-century Dutch art , he taught at Columbia University for nearly a decade . |
| 14 | The impact of the oil crisis and its associated inflation led to the first actual decline in income for OECD countries for over a quarter of a century . |
| 15 | There was comparative calm in the Wormwood household for about a week after the Superglue episode . |
| 16 | You sail turnwise from the Brown Islands for about a week and there it is . |
| 17 | Their trip , which took 38 hours instead of the normal 22 , coincided with 60ft waves and the worst North Sea gales for almost a century . |
| 18 | She suddenly became aware that she must have been thinking of Naylor Massingham for quite a bit of the journey , when she was all at once incredibly jolted by a question that flashed into her head out of nowhere . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Then I worked for Jimmy Young for quite a long time … he saved my bacon . |