Example sentences of "there for [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assuming the car had gone missing at the same ti me as Angela Morgan , it might have been there for over a week ; it had only been found that evening by a uniformed constable who was keeping his eyes open . |
| 2 | His presence there for over a year was a useful lever for Russia , which therefore replaced China as a contender for dominant influence in the peninsula . |
| 3 | And sad things like children falling into fires and because in the mud huts you have the fire in the centre of the hut and it 's quite easy for the children to fall in and there was one little boy there who had been there for over a year and they kept trying to erm heal up all his skin wounds . |
| 4 | They 've been sitting there for over a week |
| 5 | I have n't been there for over a , a year or more I think last time I was there |
| 6 | Sometimes she 'd keep me waiting there for over an hour while she scanned the surroundings through 180 degrees , over and over again . |
| 7 | ‘ And yet he was up there for nearly a year , ’ said Viola , casting eyes heavenwards again , like Mr Stiggins speaking of rum . |
| 8 | We sit there for nearly an hour , staring into the house-sized holes , mesmerized by the relentless sound and fury . |
| 9 | It was there for just a second or two , then it moved away quickly . |
| 10 | Yes , well Michael Wright , I think you want to come in there for just a second . |
| 11 | I stay there for quite a bit , looking round and that , till it gets light . |
| 12 | I stay there for quite a while , until I get real good and warm . |
| 13 | I sit there for quite a bit , hunched up on the pavement . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're going to have to have a fairly visible presence there for quite a while to put the authoritarian opponents on notice that we mean business . ’ |
| 15 | Liebermann , so Vincent had heard , had once established his base there for quite a while . |
| 16 | He sat there for quite a while , grinning at her , then looking away , then looking back and grinning at her again . |
| 17 | Yeah , it 's been there for quite a while . |
| 18 | And er he was there for quite a number of years and then went to just for a few years , and came back to Galashiels to work with the same firm and then he started business on his own . |
| 19 | Er and then he , he went to Singapore , he was there for quite a long while after the war teaching the er the English children . |
| 20 | He ended up in Nairobi and lived there for quite a long time . |
| 21 | So I erm , I erm , was put into the Royal Army Pay Corp and posted up to Barnet , North London and I was there for quite a while , we all transferred down to Winchester . |
| 22 | And he was there for quite a while . |
| 23 | And er he said it had been standing there for quite a while . |
| 24 | They stood there for perhaps a minute , wondering what to do . |
| 25 | For the next hour , Matilda kept practising , and in the end she had managed , by the sheer power of her eyes , to lift the whole cigar clear off the table about six inches into the air and hold it there for about a minute . |
| 26 | And erm I was there for about a year . |
| 27 | They fall into some categories do n't they , like the lazy slob , who never does anything , never washes a dish or ne never helps at all around the house , so even though they stay there for about a week . |
| 28 | They do the operation and keep the woman there for about an hour then give her 50 rupees . |
| 29 | But that was , we were standing there for about an hour I should think it was . |
| 30 | and er , this is what I , this is what I wanted , to tie to the flagpole and left him there for about an hour he had his pasting as well . |