Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could include providing for zero quotas on all African nations — or selectively reducing quotas to help stop poached ivory slipping into legal trade . |
| 2 | I know sometimes erm people when they got their benefit , would try and do shopping for two weeks , but even that was unrealistic of how long they were , what they were buying was going to last for two weeks . |
| 3 | We had one free day each week — any one of our choice — and we could also elect to work for twelve days consecutively and then have two days off . |
| 4 | Even the most generous interpretation of the figures reveals a very modest increase in funding and it most certainly does not even begin to compensate for ten years of cuts . |
| 5 | I would be happy to hear from any priest who feels he would like to volunteer for five years or from suitably qualified people who might have some skill to offer . |
| 6 | He does n't stop laughing for two miles . |
| 7 | Karen MacGregor , 11 , of Redmire , Wensleydale , travelled first class on the train to London yesterday as her prize for helping her mum stop smoking for two weeks from No Smoking Day on March 11 . |
| 8 | I did stop smoking for three months and then with everyone else around us , I mean I was putting on weight and then I went back to smoking . |
| 9 | We might well have to wait for six months before we found a prahu which was heading in the right direction . |
| 10 | The best of the autograph collectors would not have accepted for one minute that their pursuit was the poor relation of manuscript collecting proper . |
| 11 | Well then I must have cried for two hours and |
| 12 | Many would regularly ‘ pop their ticker ’ — pawn the watch they may have bought for five pounds , on which they may have raised forty pounds or more in loans , as Melanie Tebbutt showed in Making Ends Meet ( 1983 ) . |
| 13 | When I go skiing I want dozens of fast tows to whisk me to the top of runs and ensure I do n't have to queue for 20 minutes behind a junior racing team , trying to unclip each other 's bindings and seeing how far they can spit . |
| 14 | He should never have asked for three assistants , he realized . |
| 15 | But while the FA Cup can still turn dreams into reality , the Second Division might have to settle for one representative at Wembley after tomorrow 's semi-finals . |
| 16 | Had he not done so , the probability is the probation order would have run for six months and no one would have been any the wiser . ’ |
| 17 | So although the machine may have run for eight minutes , it was not an uninterrupted eight minutes . |
| 18 | ‘ The sort I could really have gone for twenty years ago . ’ |
| 19 | For example , a purchaser of 9 1/2 % Treasury 1999 at £100 27/32 will in addition have to pay for 26 days accrued interest . |
| 20 | Who 's Who had revealed him to be seventy-four : in the flesh he could have passed for ten years younger , despite having a head entirely free of hair . |
| 21 | The 35 million Christmas trees bought this year would have to rot for 30 years before decomposing in dumps that are already overflowing . |
| 22 | The old scribe would shake his head : ‘ I could have tried for 20 years and still not come up with an opening paragraph like that , ’ he would say . |
| 23 | You must have worked for 13 weeks to be entitled to a statutory statement of the main terms of your employment . |
| 24 | When we get to 12 o'clock , some of them will have waited for three hours . |
| 25 | Place the cous cous in a bowl , pour over warm water to cover and leave to soak for 10 mins . |
| 26 | If both confess , then both will go to jail for five years . |
| 27 | The prosecutor tells them that if they both confess they will go to jail for ten years ; if neither confesses they will get two years ; if only one confesses he ( the confessor ) will get just one year while his fellow prisoner goes down for 20 . |
| 28 | A desert , Menzies thought , a wilderness where you might just manage to survive for forty days and forty nights , especially if there was an angel at hand to minister to you . |
| 29 | Erm I mean as it is I I can get photocopying for four P a sheet getting fifty at a time , and that give I get a receipt for that which is better than three P a sheet without a receipt . |
| 30 | Last week , when my dryer broke down , the sheets did n't get changed for eight days . |