Example sentences of "[verb] for nearly [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have been indoctrinated for nearly forty years with the belief that their right to this pension does not arise simply out of a public decision to pay it but is a right vested in the individual by virtue of certain payments made by him , and analogous to what would be his entitlement under a contract with an insurance company . |
| 2 | Following the very important increase last year , which focused especially on the needs of those in nursing homes in the light of the survey information that we had received , the increase next April will give an additional £15 a week across virtually all the main categories and with an even larger increase , of £20 a week for two residential care categories — the very dependent elderly and the mentally handicapped — which together account for nearly two fifths of all residential care cases on income support . |
| 3 | Together they account for nearly two-thirds of the entire temporary labour force but rather under half of total employment . |
| 4 | Unleaded petrol sales in the United Kingdom currently account for nearly 44 per cent . |
| 5 | In terms of sheer size they are sometimes bigger than the countries in which they operate ; they are estimated to control over a quarter of world output ; and their ‘ inter-firm ’ shipments of goods from one country to another account for nearly one-third of recorded trade ’ . |
| 6 | In terms of numbers of banks the USA is the most heavily represented country , but in terms of market share the Japanese now account for nearly one-third of the market . |
| 7 | He did n't answer for nearly fifteen seconds ; did n't smile . |
| 8 | The Indians , who they fought for nearly two years , must also complete their pullout . |
| 9 | Twenty one year old Simon Matthews was trapped for nearly four hours on rocks by the sea . |
| 10 | Three days later — the last Saturday before Christmas — Regent Street and stretches of the Charing Cross Road had to be evacuated for nearly two hours following bomb scares , and Hatchards and Dillons in Piccadilly were also forced to shut for up to four hours on Saturday . |
| 11 | If demand reaches the 2.25 oversubscription level , and both the foreign and institutional clawbacks are triggered , UK personal investors would qualify for nearly 44 per cent of the entire float — around 1,000 million shares . |
| 12 | It allowed a splinter party , Swapo-Democrats , to appropriate and register the symbol which Swapo used for nearly 30 years , a hand holding a flaming torch . |
| 13 | In 1923 he obtained two consultant posts as children 's physician , one at the Queen 's Hospital for Children , where for ten years he was in charge of the London county council rheumatic and heart clinic , and the other at Paddington Green Children 's Hospital , where he continued to work for nearly forty years . |
| 14 | It was the first wine any of us had had to drink for nearly five months and we got very drunk , extremely fast . |
| 15 | It was found that 22 per cent of the whole group of children were thought to need a substitute family ; and permanent substitute families were being sought for nearly three-quarters of these . |
| 16 | Which made me think of Springsteen and the fact that he had n't been fed for nearly twenty-four hours . |
| 17 | There I snored and whinnied and gnashed for nearly three hours , awaking refreshed and raring to go at a little after one . |
| 18 | Why , for example , did the author of Lucky Jim wait for nearly ten years before following his own hero to the metropolis ? |
| 19 | They drove for nearly forty minutes through the empty suburb streets . |
| 20 | There were 320000 of them in 1979–11 per cent of all our claimants , caring for nearly 600000 children between them . |
| 21 | There was another edition of them in 1554 , then they do not seem to have been reprinted for nearly three hundred years . |
| 22 | In real time , Peter worked out , Emor began towards the end of 1963 and flourished for nearly two years . |
| 23 | Between them and the stream itself stood half-grown clumps of purple loosestrife and fleabane , which would not flower for nearly two months yet . |
| 24 | The windows had been closed for nearly three months and the place had a dusty smell that got into your throat and made your eyes smart . |
| 25 | The line was closed for nearly three hours . |
| 26 | We have been waiting for nearly fifty years . ’ |
| 27 | I will be very brief but just to welcome the fact that in we have been waiting for nearly fifty years |
| 28 | Ingard kept us waiting for nearly ten minutes — pompous ass , I thought . |
| 29 | In the big race … the womens championships … the favourite Andrea Whitcombe who was out to win for a record equalling third year in a row was beaten in to second place by Lisa York of Leicester … they raced for nearly four miles and at the finish there was just three seconds between them |
| 30 | All this was merely a convention as far as I was concerned , an exercise I had anticipated for nearly ten years . |