Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He loves you , he 's a good bloke , you 've been together for over a year . |
| 2 | There 's just one thing : what happens to band who 've been together for virtually a decade ? |
| 3 | And then again , if I 've been shut away in the Prison of Hostages , I expect I 've been away for quite a time . |
| 4 | We are already at quite a distance from the original simple idea of government by the people . |
| 5 | Three separate inquiries are underway into why a woman spectator died attending the demoliton of a block of flats in Glasgow , early reports suggest she WAS at a safe distance from the site of the blast . |
| 6 | He himself would be away for nearly a month : already his appointment diary for his time in the States was crammed . |
| 7 | ‘ But you must realise that Stella could be away for quite a period — especially if her appendix is to be removed . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I anticipate that my husband will be home in about an hour . ’ |
| 9 | Caitlin will be here in about an hour . |
| 10 | I know and like on Thursday yeah I mean we 're gon na be there for about an hour and a half probably yeah , and I wan na go home and I wan na drop my bag off and I wan na change my clothes and that 's gon na be like seven o'clock or eight o'clock like cos I wan na come round to band practice tomorrow and I wo n't get there until bloody eight o'clock and miss half my bloody weekend . |
| 11 | ‘ We 'll be there in about an hour or so , ’ Guido told her , as Ronni sat by his side stiffly , staring out the window . |
| 12 | I 've been here for nearly a year now . ’ |
| 13 | I have now been here for over a week , and am beginning to get into the swing of things . |
| 14 | I 've been here for about a week now . ’ |
| 15 | Your fax has been here for about a week now , I 'll bring it down for you . |
| 16 | He had been there at least a week , a stain of blood spreading out from his face across the bottom mattress , his shattered body preserved by the freezing February weather . |
| 17 | And sad things like children falling into fires and because in the mud huts you have the fire in the centre of the hut and it 's quite easy for the children to fall in and there was one little boy there who had been there for over a year and they kept trying to erm heal up all his skin wounds . |
| 18 | Assuming the car had gone missing at the same ti me as Angela Morgan , it might have been there for over a week ; it had only been found that evening by a uniformed constable who was keeping his eyes open . |
| 19 | Yeah , it 's been there for quite a while . |
| 20 | ‘ You said you were here for just a week ? ’ |
| 21 | These civil laws allow judges to grant an " interim injunction " to stop publication until the trial of the action — which is usually at least a year afterwards . |
| 22 | Although I am convinced that the prime management problem is ‘ making it happen ’ , one has to accept that in life there is always at least an evens chance that one is going the wrong way . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , over in Summit , New Jersey , Unix System Labs says it is pleased with the DRA technology , though its ANDF effort is still at least a year away from release . |
| 24 | They do it a half hour later or an hour later and if that holds , erm I think they usually , you know , it 's always at least an hour |
| 25 | An inquiry is underway into how a tube train with passengers on board took off without a driver and travelled for a mile and through a station before being halted by an automatic signal . |
| 26 | A full investigation is underway into how a rapist was able to attack a , a girl of eleven in a children 's ward at a hospital in Surrey . |
| 27 | By eliminating ploughing , soil disturbance is kept to a minimum and wind erosion is reduced by the fact that the soil is never without either a crop cover or a binding layer of roots . |
| 28 | Now the tokens are actually worth quite a lot in in terms of consumer durables . |
| 29 | She was outside for just a second . |
| 30 | The operation had apparently been quite straightforward ; Kirsty was home in under a week and back at work after a month , with no obvious after-effects . |