Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Volunteers usually act as ‘ sitters ’ caring for a client while the rest of the family is away , perhaps for a few hours for a weekly shopping trip . |
| 2 | On 14 October Coleridge wrote abstractedly to John Thelwall that , ‘ I should much wish , like the Indian Vishna , to float about along an infinite ocean cradled in the flower of the Lotos , & wake once in a million years for a few minutes — just to know that I was going to sleep a million years more . ’ |
| 3 | On this leg of the patrol it was mostly long steams southward with a few breaks for routine rummage , and we saw little in the way of oil related activity . |
| 4 | Phillips Auctioneers in Oxford is working with other branches throughout Britain to raise up to a million pounds for local charities in the ITV Telethon '92 . |
| 5 | The Burleigh group set off from London on Friday morning and they 're hoping their efforts have raised up to a million pounds for the 2 hospitals . |
| 6 | The fund will provide grants for up to a thousand pounds for these organisations to spend on such training . |
| 7 | It will also replace a rotten back door , under a scheme with the local district council which offers grants of up to a thousand pounds for such work for elderly people in the town . |
| 8 | The parents can now be fined up to a thousand pounds for the children , because they have n't carried out the instructions of the court . |
| 9 | Some scientists believe that it can take up to a thousand years for virgin forest to be truly established . |
| 10 | The busiest time is in summer , with up to a thousand covers for three meals a day , seven days a week , which means recruiting up to 20 extra staff . |
| 11 | On past trips to Japan and Saudi Arabia Philip Somerville created up to a dozen hats for her . |
| 12 | I 'll be back in a few minutes for our little talk . ’ |
| 13 | Karl , 62 , was sentenced in Bangkok five years ago to a HUNDRED years for murdering his Thai bride-to-be , but was released under an amnesty marking Queen Sirikit 's 60th birthday . |