Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] for [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have been using these for only a number of weeks now , but the response has been very encouraging . |
| 2 | It had 300 residential places ( and had had those for only a year ) . |
| 3 | Re-rigging the ship for an Antarctic voyage inside of a week , after she had been lying idle for over a year , was quite impossible . |
| 4 | And I carried on doing that for quite a number of years and I managed to be voted onto the Edinburgh committee . |
| 5 | And have you been taking that for quite a while ? |
| 6 | Then it all went black for quite a while . |
| 7 | There appeared to be a determinate , stable , inverse relationship between the rate of change of money wages and the unemployment rate which had continued to hold good for almost a century . |
| 8 | She 'd been sitting motionless for over an hour , conducting an inner battle over the need to alert the board of Chester 's about Guy 's perfidy , with the stubborn hope that somehow she might be wrong keeping her glued to the spot , torn with indecision … |
| 9 | I , I maybe fall asleep for maybe an hour or two and then I 'm woken and I 'm coughing all the time . |
| 10 | These had been kept intact for almost a century by Louisa Greenough Powers Ibbotson and her descendants . |