Example sentences of "live [adv] for a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Living only for a couple of microseconds on average , the muon can not go from atom to atom catalysing fusion and liberating energy indefinitely ; the dream of the ages is n't so easily fulfilled . |
| 2 | You only lived here for a couple of years . ’ |
| 3 | She abandoned the half-formed thought as he went on , ‘ I was educated in England , and lived there for a number of years . |
| 4 | My mum and aunt are always saying to me , a white girl will first of all be engaged , then marry , then live in her mum 's house for a little while until they can afford the mortgage on their place , then buy a house , live there for a couple of years , then they 'll have the baby . |
| 5 | ‘ The woman involved was a married woman with a family and she and Philip had lived together for a couple of months but she decided to go back to her husband in September . ’ |
| 6 | But her deep tanned face had been lived in for a fistful of decades . |
| 7 | The house was n't run-down , either , but there were touches here and there betraying the fact 64 that it had n't been lived in for a couple of years ; the windows that were n't shuttered were n't clean , and there were weeds pushing up through the gravel . |
| 8 | I 'm not an expert — I 've only lived there for a couple of years . ’ |
| 9 | These neighbours had lived there for a number of years ; they knew Mrs Browning well , and what they told my husband made us feel rather small , and very inexperienced . |