Example sentences of "[noun] for [adj] [conj] [det] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The base has been training airmen for more than half a century . |
| 2 | Fergie 's antics plunge Royal Family into its biggest crisis for more than half a century |
| 3 | Cellophane , a leading manufacturer of packaging films for more than half a century , launched its quality systems registration effort two years ago , with and in charge . |
| 4 | The Bugatti Owners Club has been holding meetings at Prescott Hill near Cheltenham for more than half a century . |
| 5 | The new Hermitage director has worked there for nearly two years as assistant academic director under acting-director Vitaliy Suslov , but he has been connected with the museum almost all his life ; his father , Academician Boris Piotrovskiy ( 1908–90 ) , was on the staff at the Hermitage for more than half a century , and was its director for twenty-six years before his death en poste . |
| 6 | This was all part of a romanticising process that has afflicted Pygmalion for more than half a century . |
| 7 | Mm , I can never remember the formulas , like your dad said formula for such and such a thing is so and so and that , but I could never remember them so I was no good then , because I could n't remember it |