Example sentences of "[noun] for [adv] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | really a continuous , strongish wind to blow in one direction for quite a few hours . |
| 2 | ‘ See here , ’ said the doctor doubtfully , ‘ it is n't usual for a man to walk into an empty house at four in the morning and come out with another man 's cheque for nearly a hundred pounds . ’ |
| 3 | If hypnotics are prescribed , enough tablets for only a few nights should be given at any one time and the medication stopped once the period of distress is over . |
| 4 | Big undertakings like Sheffield and Worth only required twenty or thirty men each , and of course for just a few weeks at a time . |
| 5 | When the tide springs up the shore the furthest , it also recedes the furthest — uncovering pools which may be accessible by foot for only a few hours each year . |
| 6 | Kleiman suggested that this was because his shadowing task had occupied space in the readers ' " working memory " — a kind of short-term memory useful in retaining numbers and words for just a few seconds . |
| 7 | He had been in the States for only a few months . |
| 8 | A charming Canadian town nestling in the eternally lush and fertile Orotava Valley , whose beauty and mild climate have attracted visitors for over a hundred years . |
| 9 | I mean to our children , although they 've been away from Butchwana for quite a few years now it 's still home |
| 10 | Well the first thing is that the City Council is charged with the defence of common land that and Port Meadow is a piece of common land that 's been in the possession of the people of Oxford and Oxfordshire and of England for over a thousand years . |
| 11 | One thing which will prove very disconcerting for a young puppy is to be left on its own in kennels after being in a home for just a few weeks . |
| 12 | The car had been parked outside their home for only a few minutes before neighbours saw it being driven off by teenage youths . |
| 13 | He knew that she had not enjoyed his homecoming or the renewal of a sexual life ; throughout their married life he had been at home for only a few weeks at a time , and she had been free to make her life as she chose . |
| 14 | If we assume that the number of professional programmers , these are people who are competent to use and develop software , is roughly proportional to the number of commercial computers in operation , this means that if the trend continues , in ten years time , there will be a need for roughly a hundred times as many computer programmers than we 've got as present . |
| 15 | To be fair most of us were P C's for quite a few years without radios and we worked out extremely well did n't we , without those radios |
| 16 | If a dealer has worked in the business for only a few weeks , the client has no way of telling whether he is senior or not , and some licensed dealers have taken advantage of this . |
| 17 | At the north end of the aqueduct is the Leawood Pumping Station , where a beam engine installed in 1849 pumped water from the river to the canal for nearly a hundred years . |
| 18 | It used to be in Bournemouth , they had it at Bournemouth for quite a few years . |
| 19 | The success of modestly-priced courses such as East Horton and the increasing popularity of driving ranges , where anyone can turn up with a three wood and a five iron and whack a basket of balls for just a few pounds , shows that golf can still thrive in the recession — if the price is right . |
| 20 | This stage resembles planning your essay outline , and could give you your necessary paragraph headings ( particularly since an exam essay gives room for only a few paragraphs ) . |
| 21 | The hardwoods from which English ships were usually built are more resistant to soakage and there are several instances of wooden ships afloat and in service for over a hundred years . |
| 22 | She has welcomed the oppressed and disowned of the world to this paranoiac dreamscape for nearly a hundred years . |
| 23 | We had owned the Sumatras for just a few months , but already we had seen that they are volatile and eccentric birds , much given to sudden screech-ups and bouts of cackling , which in other chickens would denote the arrival of an egg , but from them seem to signify only that they have given themselves a fright . |
| 24 | I 've been a carer for quite a few years now , until recently , when my grandmother died . |
| 25 | I had worked as an assistant in Mothercare for quite a few years , so I took out a discount card with them when I was pregnant and I bought everything there at 20 per cent discount . |
| 26 | Also in New Guinea are sympatric birds of paradise apparently dealing with fruit in a similar way , staying in the trees for only a few minutes , perhaps through fear of predators . |
| 27 | The Great Barrier Reef , running parallel to the eastern coast of Australia for over a thousand miles can be seen from the moon . |
| 28 | I 'll give you another , it 's reckoned that ninety million tons of water , I 'll repeat that , ninety million tons of water , sufficient to supply the needs of this immediate area for over a hundred years , cascaded down off the moor that morning . |
| 29 | The British have been alone on their island for over a thousand years , without successful invasion . |
| 30 | Used to cry her eyes out sometimes when she 'd had a few , and say she 'd be in purgatory for about a million years . |