Example sentences of "only for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May is one of the quietest months here which gives us the chance to catch up with maintenance and work days only for a whole . |
| 2 | The boy was almost sure to have been home at intervals , if only for a change of clothing . |
| 3 | ‘ At the most , they are confined only for a century or two . |
| 4 | Viscount Palmerston had taken over as Prime Minister by then only to lose that position to Lord Derby again but only for a year , as the Liberals were able to take control of Parliament in 1859 , with Viscount Palmerston remaining as Prime Minister until 1865 , during which period many changes took place . |
| 5 | Lloyd had persuaded Coleridge to take him as a pupil at £80 a year ; but when his wealthy father , a member of the banking family , insisted that the arrangement could last only for a year , Coleridge 's expectation of a regular income suddenly vanished , and Lloyd eventually settled with him as an occasional lodger , not a pupil . |
| 6 | The period is 27 years , and the eclipse lasts for a long time ; the last began on 22 July 1982 and did not end until 25 June 1984 , though it was total only for a year ( January 1983 to January 1984 ) . |
| 7 | They envied us our escape — if it was only for a year — from that city 's dread social and financial crises . |
| 8 | The Government allowed users a price cap as a transitional measure , but it has run only for a year , until March 1991 . |
| 9 | I would rather see people that are going to start work , even if it is only for a year , at the same time where they are working that year that somebody take an interest in what 's going to happen to them at the end of that year . |
| 10 | Aunt knew her at school ; Aunt went to a posh boarding-school — only for a year or two — and she likes you to know it . |
| 11 | Theoretically , the Council should have been a cross-section of the people socially ( as we have seen it was geographically ) : its members were appointed by lot , they served only for a year at a time , so that the Councillors should not have felt themselves to be a cohesive hereditary body like the old Areopagus or the ( semi-hereditary ) Roman Senate , and they could not serve more than twice in their lives . |
| 12 | ‘ You must be married to Buff , but only for a year . |
| 13 | Also , he 's supposed to have had an insurance policies but General Accident said it 's only for a year and he took it out in seventy seven to nineteen seventy eight . |
| 14 | In extreme circumstances borrowers might be allowed to pay interest only for a while . |
| 15 | For Barbara it was fun , but only for a while . |
| 16 | I told myself it was only for a while . |
| 17 | But only for a while . |
| 18 | Such a relief to be among the long , wet grass and blue , blue skies , to feel free and alive , to be alone with her thoughts , unfettered , if only for a while , from the frustrations and restraints of yesterday . |
| 19 | She thought and worked and grieved only for a day at a time . |
| 20 | In a sense , a very basic one , the riots were political : " a groping desire to settle accounts with the rich , if only for a day and to achieve some rough kind of social justice " . |
| 21 | but , it 's only for a day , so you do n't really know |
| 22 | Only for a bloke actually it 's pretty easy , but for some of the girls I mean they sometimes has to false herself . |
| 23 | In the west of Scotland , CCG have been selected by the CPC Social Club in Paisley , not only for a bar and food service with entertainment for 420 members , but also for ground maintenance including their bowling greens and tennis courts . |
| 24 | So I said if it 's only for a mile it 's going to be well less than a minute at eighty , presuming you were doing more than thereabouts and er that was it . |
| 25 | Cal must have told her there was Nothing In It , I just felt sorry for him , she 'd got to be kind and take him in , only for a night . |
| 26 | I ask only for a heart as constant |
| 27 | Secondary education had been provided only for a minority . |
| 28 | There were now , albeit only for a minority , alternatives to invisibility . |
| 29 | At all ages the vast majority of those defined as disabled reside in the community ; institutional care caters only for a minority of this population . |
| 30 | Cover the treatment bath to prevent the fish jumping out , even if the bath is only for a minute or two . |