Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this he argued powerfully for a revival of social citizenship and the ‘ developmental state ’ . |
| 2 | IN SEPTEMBER , a group of 50 people met together for a week of prayer at Our Lady of Good Counsel , Leeds . |
| 3 | Recollecting that she had no money with her , Clare asked only for a cup of tea ; but Len made her and Bridget sit down while he queued , and returned with a loaded tray . |
| 4 | Banks are competing fiercely for a share of the slower-growing market . |
| 5 | If not , she could try to find somewhere for a cup of tea . |
| 6 | At first he was asked to stand literally for a couple of seconds before being praised and asked to walk on . |
| 7 | Melt half the butter in a saucepan , add the beans and cook gently for a couple of minutes , stirring , then add the savory and just enough boiling water to cover the beans . |
| 8 | The young Robert Zimmerman had changed his name to Bob Dylan and had been wailing away for a couple of years or so , and Nicholson was among the first of his fans who listened to and studied the words of his anti-establishment anthems , ‘ The Times , They Are A-Changin ’ and his ‘ Mr Tambourine Man ’ which was a taunting , haunting song with a very hard edge that white middle-class youth took to be an ode to a dope dealer , which Dylan denied . |
| 9 | It is here that the rich and super-rich moor their magnificent multi-million pound floating palaces and slip ashore for a glass of bubbly or two . |
| 10 | Add conditioner to the water , and aerate thoroughly for a couple of days . |
| 11 | Elementals often appear as a moving light or a change in temperature , or they may take the form of an animal or bird and make it behave oddly for a period of time . |
| 12 | Mind you , I suspect she 'll only stay ashore for a couple of hours , but that 's better than nothing at all . ’ |
| 13 | For a century and a half the subject of sexuality was taboo in much of Western society and it was only after the Second World War that this taboo decayed sufficiently for a body of formal knowledge concerning sexuality to be scientifically built up . |
| 14 | Those who made the journey to London might have done so for a variety of reasons . |
| 15 | I just certain , satisfy certain erm cattle requirements and carry on business in the sugar trade and of must done so for a period of time , I 'm looking at this , the third page in , top of the page , erm trade in office in London established without purpose erm now those the |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | certainly I think er we 'd be looking perhaps for a minimum of er er of one mile but I ca n't advise you on any level of agreement as to as to what any definition of it . |
| 18 | Whereby the whole church family , broke up into groups for a period of education , and then came together for a time of celebration and worship . |
| 19 | weekend that we are arranging this summer as we have done annually for a number of years . |
| 20 | I think he ca I think he came tonight for a game of cards that 's all he came |
| 21 | For example a bilingual fieldworker acceptable to an Asian community in Britain would probably need to be selected carefully for a range of characteristics such as religion , geographical provenance , or political affiliation , all of which are associated with a distinctive ethnicity . |
| 22 | On the other side , the track dropped sharply for a quarter of a mile where , to its right , was a dome of sand about 150 yards in diameter . |
| 23 | This is partly to get higher wages , but it is really so because jobs are run-of-the-mill and they are looking simply for a change of venue , a new setting , and new faces . |
| 24 | Earlier in the day he had searched anxiously for a tape of Whitney Houston doing ‘ The Greatest Love of All ’ , a song written especially for Ali years ago . |
| 25 | The meeting had been convened at the initiative of Yugoslavia as current chairman of the NAM , and the Yugoslav Foreign Minister Budimir Loncar said at a press conference afterwards that " the foreign ministers could not agree on a joint statement , but opted instead for a plan of action to prevent the war 's escalation … starting with the rapid deployment of a mission of three to four ministers to Baghdad within a few days " . |
| 26 | A 37-HOUR working week agreed yesterday for a group of engineering workers may become a benchmark in the national engineering dispute , now in its second month . |
| 27 | You should continue to walk aerobically for a minimum of 30 minutes each day , four times a week ; and you should continue to use the low fat Walking Diet recipes and adapt them to your own diet . |
| 28 | Thirty minutes since Dominic had gone inside that room … time enough for a readjustment of ideas , time enough to let resentment flood back to the place it had just left . |
| 29 | He was a founder member of the Society of Chemical Industry ( 1881 ) , and became its foreign secretary in 1910 , remaining so for a number of years , and president in 1911–12 and 1914 . |
| 30 | Once that has been completed the scaffolding will be removed and the Banco di Roma will provide indefinitely for a team of gardeners and maintenance officers to keep the upper walls free of weeds that grow in the crevices , loosening small bits of masonry and concrete that are then dislodged by birds or lizards . |