Example sentences of "[verb] for a [adj] time [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A CD is a negotiable bearer instrument issued by a bank which certifies that a stated sum has been deposited for a specific time period at a particular interest rate . |
| 2 | These considerations lead lenders to charge different rates for the same amount loaned for a given time period to , say , the government , a commercial company and a private individual . |
| 3 | The advantage to the bank is that it has the use of a deposit for a fixed period , but , because of the flexibility given to the lender , at a slightly lower price than it would have had to pay for a normal time deposit . |
| 4 | Yesterday the deputy principal , Alan Dixon , said the college has earmarked between £15,000 and £20,000 each year to pay for a full time teacher at the Adult Basic Education Unit . |
| 5 | This county pays for a full time union official this is extravagant , one full timer for five hundred members , that is way over the top let me tell you . |
| 6 | I had for a long time being trying to find a way of showing the heat-pain argument to be invalid , because I could not accept the conclusion , that heat exists only as a sensation in the mind . |
| 7 | Designed to combine all the tools required for a real time emergency or training simulation , EIS provides full colour facility maps , data sheets , key personnel details and ensures effective communication between operation centres faces with a chemical release . |
| 8 | For example , it may instruct its members to go-slow or work-to-rule or it may call for selective strikes ( in which certain groups of workers stop working for a specified time period ) ; or all the union members may be called out on a one-day strike . |