Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [num] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Negotiations had been going on for 17 months before the strike . |
| 2 | The war between England and Spain went on for sixteen years after the defeat of the Armada , with a good deal of the English effort being undertaken by private ventures like Drake 's ( though they were easier to acknowledge once war had begun officially ) . |
| 3 | It 's actually on for two hours in the evening . |
| 4 | The Sergeant and the Constable had continued on for two steps through the door towards their senior officer without realising that they had left Jimmy behind . |
| 5 | She had already been allowed to stay on for two years beyond the age when she would normally have had to retire . |
| 6 | However , she was taken on for six months by the Grantham and Kesteven Hospital in the children 's ward . |
| 7 | Coleridge introduced his friends to the steep woodland track leading from Porlock Weir to Culbone , and together they walked on for four miles beneath the trees , before emerging close to Broomstreet Farm and Yenworthy . |
| 8 | By the end of the 1730s Truman 's Brewery had getting on for 300 publicans on the books , though less than a tenth were tied houses actually owned by the brewery . |
| 9 | This , however , is not the thinking — and it may be presumptuous — that moved BBC2 to hit us between the frontal lobes with Jonathan Miller 's states of mind ( 20 February ) , a series that will march on for 15 weeks in the cause of bringing us up to date with what is happening in psychology . |
| 10 | to sit down for five minutes after the tea , no the other one was , is that the biggest one ? , thanks , there you are |
| 11 | So at least there 's income coming in for three months at the rate of your salary . |
| 12 | Then you turned them over for twelve hours to the right , and twelve hours to the left , and up they go ! |
| 13 | He was bound over for 12 months in the sum of £100 to be of good behaviour . |
| 14 | GIRDING up for six hours with the Mahabharata is a long training . |
| 15 | Now she thought that she could give it up for three weeks in the Italian sun . |
| 16 | However it is difficult to understand how the government arrives at a post-trial solution to a pre-trial problem ; unless it is their intention to lock youngsters up for three years in the new approved schools without trial . |
| 17 | She had been out for three hours in the same seas , searching the rocky coastline off St Abbs Head . |
| 18 | He says the county council has been trying to find out for 6 years about the planning of the east-west route because we were very worried about the effect it would have on Oxford and the countryside around Oxford . |
| 19 | In my view this country is filled with immense new moral forces which have been dammed back for ten years by the great dead bulk of the Labour Party Machine lying like a fallen tree across the road to progress . |
| 20 | In the US , buyers will have to hold back for 90 days after the issue because of Securities Exchange Commission restrictions on overseas dealings . |
| 21 | In the US , buyers will have to hold back for 90 days after the issue because of Securities Exchange Commission restrictions on overseas dealings . |
| 22 | They wander around for forty years in the wilderness ! |