Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] for the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My dear , your real mother has been looking after you for the past twenty years , ’ said Miss Rose sharply . |
| 2 | I 've been trying to get hold of you for the past two hours ! ’ the man exclaimed harshly as he stared down at Laura , who was gazing back at him as though she 'd seen a ghost . |
| 3 | I have read it now from cover to cover — every word of it for the past seven years — since I first got hooked on running . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been waiting for you for the past three hours , pacing the corridors , wearing out the carpet . |
| 5 | Jazz 's target was to stay with him for the full four minutes . |
| 6 | It has been with us for the past 10 years . |
| 7 | Les left the party for what he calls ‘ the superior ideology of Moral Re-Armament , ’ and has worked with us for the past sixteen years . |
| 8 | ‘ And we have n't had a penny from them for the past two years or more . |
| 9 | We 've heard nothing from him for the past four months since that heart attack in Italy . |
| 10 | Waxing , a more traditional English technique employed by those unable or unwilling to undertake french polishing , ousted the latter by the 1920s , having run alongside it for the previous forty years . |
| 11 | If you 've got some new material on him that you want to share with us , I 'm more than happy to arrange another lecture for you later in the term , but frankly , as you 've apparently given the same lecture on him for the past ten years , I can hardly be accused of interfering with academic freedom , can I ? ’ |
| 12 | He had recently moved out to a house in the suburbs , and he sublet the house to us for the remaining three months on his lease . |
| 13 | I thought about it for the prescribed two days , chanting , ‘ How do I get her to sign the form ? — How do I get her to sign the form ? ’ , then switched on the wireless in the middle of a biblical play about Moses and God 's voice boomed out of the speakers : |