Example sentences of "this [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | I have been living in this area for over a year now , and I still have n't made any friends . |
| 5 | I have been sitting in this armchair for about an hour . |
| 6 | For it 's no use looking to this novel for even a premonition of a cleansed Russia sitting at the feet of Jesus . |
| 7 | If she eased up on this will for just a moment , love would fly away like a bird released from its cage . |
| 8 | I thought about this conversation for quite a while afterwards . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |