Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christopher swiftly arranged for a six foot wall to be built along his boundary , and angrily muttered that it was going to have to be the Scottish islands . |
| 2 | It was only licensed for a hundred people . |
| 3 | Although the syntactic filter could no doubt be improved , it probably could not compensate for a 20,000 word lexicon and/or poorer acoustic-phonetic discrimination . |
| 4 | And it was not rebuilt for a hundred years . |
| 5 | So I really , my , my , my advice is not to aim for a hundred percent efficiency but always to programme five percent optimistically . |
| 6 | If the issue today in some people 's eyes is the need for this community in Greater York to be one hundred percent self sufficient then perhaps we really ought to go pack up and er go home , er because there 's no way that er a settlement that one could envisage in Greater York or perhaps anywhere else can be a hundred percent self sufficiency , self sufficient , you 're not going to get a shopping mall , you 'd be unlikely to get a a major touring theatre , so you can not aim for a hundred percent self sufficiency , you aim for what is appropriate for the size of the community and particularly its relationship to existing settlements er in the general area . |
| 7 | The authors present Lucy as an example of punctuation : rapidly becoming human and bipedal from the ape ancestor , then not changing for a million years . |
| 8 | This new town , a product of modern civilization , had grown up near the ancient Egdon Woods , where the paths over the hills had not changed for a thousand years . |
| 9 | After an exhausting schedule of two days of pool matches — the most tortuous ‘ trial by fire ’ ever devised for a sevens tournament — Namibia had established themselves as firm favourites to claim top spot among the four qualifying berths up for grabs in Catania for Murrayfield , 1993 . |
| 10 | The penalty seemed harsh as Jones went down in a collision with John Lukic as they both raced for a 50-50 ball . |
| 11 | Expeditions typically last for a three months . |
| 12 | Not simply on Tring Reservoirs or the home counties gravel pits do men now sit for a ten pounder anymore . |
| 13 | However , while searching the many rooms for signs of the species Homo Sapiens , Daisy caught herself on a mystic spinning wheel and fell into a sleep so deep it would surely last for a hundred years ( zzzzzzzz ! — Ed ) . |
| 14 | So , if you have a head wind component of 30 kts then timing for a 1 minute leg would be increased by 30 seconds . |
| 15 | However , an increasing proportion of audit appointments have been made to private sector accounting firms , the intention being to ultimately provide for a 50/50 split of appointments between the Commission 's own staff and the private sector . |
| 16 | The politburo convened on March 9-10 , and on March 12 all official media organs gave prominent coverage to the resultant communiqué which declared unequivocally that economic reform should be " firmly maintained for a hundred years " . |