Example sentences of "lie [adj] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The farmers from this village own land in the Buffer Zone that has been lying fallow for fourteen years , but which is now being opened up . |
| 2 | ‘ But it 's a lot of money for something which has been lying dead for twelve years . ’ |
| 3 | She lay derelict for 10 years before she was restored for the Museum in 1988 . |
| 4 | Llangoed Hall , a most romantic house built in 1912 by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis , in a wonderful setting beside the River Wye in Powys , lay empty for fifteen years but has recently opened as a first-class country house hotel . |
| 5 | One measure would have forced British haddock fishing boats to lie idle for 10 days every month . |
| 6 | But fate intervened and the young Countess of Donnington was thrown from her horse and , badly cut and bruised , lay concussed for two days and nights . |
| 7 | Turkey has an excuse for its ignorance : the objects , it says , were looted from tombs where they had lain undisturbed for 2,500 years . |
| 8 | The first intimations that the forces which had lain dormant for two centuries would soon be unleashed came in the late 1870s , when frequent minor earthquakes began to shake the areas round the Sunda Straits . |
| 9 | The little man had appeared shocked at the very idea that Alfred might be suspected of killing his brother yet he had gone on , with a certain relish , to provide a convincing motive — if a motive which has lain dormant for thirty years is still convincing . |
| 10 | On June 9 Mount Pinatubo , a 1,460-metre volcano which had lain dormant for 600 years , began to erupt . |