Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] for [art] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But , one year or so for the Services to wind down is pretty drastic . ’ |
| 2 | It took another week or so for the cat to start to ignore Dawn , and even longer for her to stop taking too much notice of him and actually watch TV . |
| 3 | The experiment involves injecting 2-DG into methylanthranilate-trained and control chicks , waiting half an hour or so for the 2-DG6P to accumulate , killing the chicks , removing and freezing their brains , and subsequently counting the radioactivity present . |
| 4 | It is unlikely to be possible easily or cheaply for the Purchaser to come to its own conclusions as to whether or not these Acts apply even if it has access to the contractual document . |
| 5 | ‘ You 'd asked about your car , and I told you that it could take a week or more for the garage to locate the part they needed . ’ |
| 6 | In an exceptionally dry year ( when straw is already dried out at mowing time ) the corn may be carted without stooking , but normally it should be left in the field for a week or more for the straw to dry and the grain to harden . |
| 7 | All of the Hollywood gloss and glitter was up front in the square where the lines formed and the buskers milked , but the alley was just a mean crack with high walls of featureless brick , somewhere to hide the trash cans and somewhere for the tramps to sleep . |
| 8 | After this brief period of comparative plenty , the snow returns , covering the high pastures in a blanket too thick and hard for the animals to scrape away with their feet . |
| 9 | Not every cell is affected , but enough for the lungs to work efficiently . |
| 10 | The tangle of hostile and sympathetic feelings towards the new recruits , while hard for the historian to penetrate , must have complicated everyday life in the printing office . |