Example sentences of "[adj] for [adv] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The skua is astonishingly agile for so big a bird , but can not keep up among the throng and gives up . |
| 2 | scheme or something like that for about half the price . |
| 3 | At first the ramp was set up without any flat bottom or platforms and three feet of vert , the ramp remained like this for about half a year . |
| 4 | Although many part-time workers are used , and others migrate into the region to work during the holiday season , many become unemployed for over half the year . |
| 5 | You should never have been so eager to pay so much for so poor a privilege . ’ |
| 6 | I was only smug for about half a minute . |
| 7 | The xenon atoms remain polarised for about half an hour . |
| 8 | Whether this has any significant effect upon the vine 's growth has yet to be determined but it is true that the light in Champagne is exceptional for so northern a latitude . |
| 9 | This is responsible for nearly half the ozone depletion . |
| 10 | Part of the improvement stems from an upturn in the last few months of 1992 which was not evident last November , and part from an increase in North Sea oil , which is responsible for almost half the revision . |
| 11 | Was her waist just a shade too stiff for so massive a skirt ? |
| 12 | It does not perform as a titrating dosimat or have the RS 232C interface for the attachment of a balance , printer or PC , like the 665 Dosimat , but the 725 is available for about half the price of the 665 . |
| 13 | Its grounds were small for so large a house , no more than two shrubberies dividing it from its neighbours , and at the rear a stretch of lawn with trees ran down to a fence . |
| 14 | Seen from the A65 , the top of Moughton appears unusually flat and dead level for over half a mile . |
| 15 | The façade is pierced by five doorways filled with bronze doors , some of which are remarkably new for so ancient a building . |
| 16 | Brunel was a successful naval architect , and an outstanding builder of bridges and tunnels , to say nothing of his three great steamships , the Great Western , which sailed out of the Bristol Channel to open up the first regular passenger service between Europe and America ; the Great Britain ( see Bristol ) ; and the Great Eastern , which began its maiden voyage a few days before Brunel 's death in 1859 , and remained the largest ship afloat for nearly half a century . |
| 17 | Vernon remained silent for perhaps half a minute . |