Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unfinished building stood for several years as a mute witness to their sad state . |
| 2 | Another correspondent asked for cheap tracts which she could distribute to the poor as the middle class were already knowledgeable . |
| 3 | Sir Leon Brittan tells a famous story of how the Chancellor once raised interest rates half an hour after the Bundesbank , and uses this to illustrate that ‘ British sovereignty lasted for 30 minutes ’ . |
| 4 | This correspondence continued for some years until 1878 when they moved to late in June . |
| 5 | But they were hot on the trail of a loathsome whine as the party in another mess pined for better days . |
| 6 | This symptom free period lasted for several days and even weeks . |
| 7 | Yorick screamed again — the high wail lasted for several seconds before it ended with a sharp report . |
| 8 | This shift occurred for several reasons . |
| 9 | A British walker survived for seven days without food , save for a few prunes she managed to scavenge out of a dustbin , while lost in New Zealand 's rugged Taparua mountain range . |
| 10 | This arrangement continued for eight years , and enabled me not only to work on several books , but also to continue with my computer research . |
| 11 | This situation lasted for three years , until Leeds United were promoted in 1924 . |
| 12 | This treatment lasted for 12 hours . |
| 13 | Thanks to her political views , the Communist Daily Worker enjoyed for several years the services of a perceptive ballet critic . |
| 14 | The son of a drunken soldier lived for six years with his grandmother in one room . |
| 15 | THE Forum of Private Business asked for ten gifts from the Chancellor before his Budget and was given half of them . |
| 16 | A long search ensued for similar formulae in terms of radicals ( that is , formulae involving unc and the coefficients of the given equation ) for the roots of equations of higher degree , but none appeared until the 16th Century when a formula for the cubic was found by the Italian Niccolo Fontana ( more commonly known as Tartaglia , " the stammerer " , because of a speech impediment brought about by injury in childhood ) . |
| 17 | A magic-wielding character of immense power , the Great Enchanter lived for untold centuries . |
| 18 | Their happy relationship flourished for forty years and led to about two hundred plants being introduced into Europe from America . |
| 19 | In all the cases the cancer had spread to other organs , giving poor survival chances ; but on average the patients who received pyschological treatment lived for 37 months while those who did not lived 19 months on average . |
| 20 | That affair continued for some months . |
| 21 | Each word appeared for 200 milliseconds and the subject was asked to responds as quickly as possible by pressing either the ‘ Yes ’ or ‘ No ’ response button , which stopped the clock . |
| 22 | Manjrekar , who in the first Test struggled for 36 minutes for a duck , batted nine minutes short of five hours before India , 31 ahead on first innings , declared at 312–8 . |
| 23 | This living nightmare lasted for many hours until a sickly daylight showed again and the sun could be seen once more through the haze of dust . |
| 24 | Had a piece of Lotharian history survived for these years , it would have told a different story . |
| 25 | The submaximal plateau lasted for three hours , and half way through this the subject smoked one cigarette at the usual rate . |
| 26 | It was almost a model village , with its Quality Street , where a future head of the Secret Service lived for many years . |
| 27 | The radical error arose for two reasons . |
| 28 | So , a bigger church was needed to cater for the rapidly increasing numbers , and a most un-lamb like argument over whether they should extend or move to a new site raged for six years . |
| 29 | The recognition that Marvell can be seen responding idealistically to the new age , and partisanly aligning his poetry with Commonwealth and Protectorate aspirations is a consequence of admitting the enthusiasm many during the mid-seventeenth century felt for revolutionary events which would , they believed , bring a new order . |
| 30 | The resulting battle continued for six hours and both sides suffered severely , though the Mars and Bellone managed to get away unchallenged next morning carrying various prominent fugitives . |