Example sentences of "[adv] for [adv] [adv] as [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The feudal Prussian Junkers , whose estates had limped on for as long as anyone could remember , were hit particularly hard by the Corridor . |
| 2 | They may get away with a trick or two , but only for as long as nobody is watching too closely . |
| 3 | By 1988 West Indies were going through what England had been going through for as long as anyone could remember : a period of transition . |
| 4 | A Whalby and his son had been there for as long as anyone could remember and Dadda used sometimes to boast on his good days that Alfred Osborn Tace had himself been a customer and that Whalbys had re-covered the seats of the Hepplewhite chairs at Chesney Hall . |
| 5 | The township got electric light a few years ago , yet for as long as anyone could remember power-station cooling stacks had blasted out steam day and night ; the power went to white Johannesburg a few miles down the road . |
| 6 | Apart from resleeving the cylinders around three decades ago , it has continued to function satisfactorily for as long as anyone cares to remember ! |