Example sentences of "for [num] [noun] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said : ‘ On one day , the water ran dirty for eight hours it was impossible to drink , you could n't make tea and washing was filthy . |
| 2 | YOUR LAST CHANCE TO FILL UP FOR 30 MILES it read . |
| 3 | A producer recently told me of a quote he was given to use a piece of music from the '60s — for 30 seconds it came to £40,000 ! |
| 4 | It is one of the remotest places in the British Isles … for forty years it has been the victim of a real topographical tragedy … a manufacturing town of 50,000 people where a rural centre of 20,000 would have been sufficient . |
| 5 | But for me , all the time , it is a reminder that for 49 years it replaced wedding anniversary celebrations , and the memory of all those bonfires on the way to Bournemouth on a drizzly November afternoon , all those years ago . |
| 6 | For six weeks it has been pitch black . |
| 7 | Even if the racket stays in the cupboard for six months it will still need a restring — the strings will have stretched and gone ‘ dead ’ . |
| 8 | For 45 years it was the home of the Wiltshire historian Canon Jackson . |
| 9 | Now when it 's been travelling for three hours it goes through Manchester . |
| 10 | erm , but , you see , they would of been the most aggravating little gits there , because as soon as they found out , they all started messing about then , for three hours it was on , could you imagine sitting in there with them lot for three hours ? |
| 11 | For three years it went on . |
| 12 | We are expecting him back on Monday — but if he 's only staying for three days it 's a pointless exercise . |
| 13 | Indeed these two characteristics are all that is needed in the case of the adjective ; the relative clause is in a sense a stalking horse , convenient in that it is more tangible than the relation around which it is built , but unnecessary , and awkward in that it brings with it , in English , the requirement that it must express a tense ; for while it is often possible to read a tense into an adjective there is no reason whatever to suppose that there is always some particular tense present to the mind of the speaker but suppressed , as can be seen from instances like ( 35 ) , where more than one tense could plausibly be grafted onto the sense expressed by the phrase underlined , or , just as well , some adverbial notion like " because " or " if " without any specific tense being implied : ( 35 ) motorists guilty will have to pay heavy fines Likewise , the buildings adjacent of example ( 17 ) simply take their tense from that of the clause as a whole ; if , for instance , we were to switch the tense of the verb in that example in order to shift the whole situation to past time : ( 36 ) the buildings adjacent were closed for three days it would be quite unnecessary to presume that an independent mental re-assignment of tense , from present to past , internal to the phrase buildings adjacent , has to take place as well . |
| 14 | She has always relied on instinct , and for 55 years it has served her well . |
| 15 | And for 1,500 miles it was carried on the current without power , navigational gear or a radio transmitter . |
| 16 | Juniper Green Tennis Club was formed in 1979 and for 11 years it has provided a valuable service to the local community in Juniper Green and Baberton Mains . |
| 17 | and erm , you know , they spend it on the six of them pocket money for sixteen years it all of them have left school now |
| 18 | For ten years it was The Apostles writ in eight point Univers ( Do n't call us — Production Ed ) |
| 19 | to , to , I mean when I first had the er plaster off , which was for ten days it was , I could not believe it that these fingers were not going but I 'm told that that 's quite usual . |
| 20 | ‘ For 25 minutes it was difficult to see who was going to be exhausted first , ’ said David , 36 , Caithness SAA secretary . |
| 21 | Okay and when it 's been travelling for five hours it goes through erm what 's another station up there ? let's say Carlisle something like that . |
| 22 | For five minutes it feeds , she shifting it gently from one nipple to the other . |
| 23 | Yeah it wo n't I mean , that wo n't stay on for an hour I mean I 've literally had a hot bath put the water on , you know , af it goes off at nine o'clock in the morning put that radiator , put that button on to reset the hot water for five minutes it 's bo boilers lit up ten minutes and then it 's gone off |
| 24 | However , for $700 a seat for five users it is still very sexy stuff . |
| 25 | Normally , the time is fifteen minutes , and for fifteen minutes it 's five fifty , so if you 've got a lot of hair , it 's quite coarse , it 's going to go on for several months . |
| 26 | For twelve cakes it 's thirty two , for twelve cakes . |
| 27 | CLEARING up after a volcano may sound like a nightmare , but for one man it was a dream come true . |
| 28 | The task of bringing up children is tough for any parent but for one man it 's particularly difficult . |
| 29 | Although the sides of the flysheet moved in high winds I never felt for one minute it would take off . |
| 30 | For one person it may be the hard training regimens involved in the exercises . |