Example sentences of "[pers pn] for [det] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To some extent he was lucky : at the beginning of his reign he encountered a pope , Gregory X , whom he had already met in England in the 1260s and on crusade in 1272–4 ; at the end of his reign Edward had to deal with a pope , Clement V , who had been his subject and his servant in Bordeaux ; in the interval between these two popes there were ten others , but nine of these together occupied the papal throne for barely fifteen years , five of them for less than a year each , two for four years apiece , one for nearly three , and one for two only . |
| 2 | ‘ Let's hope this is the last chapter for them — it has been hanging over them for more than a year — and they can now start to rebuild their lives . ’ |
| 3 | Nobody 's heard from him for more than a year . |
| 4 | She remembered how she had n't been allowed to hold him for more than a moment before he had to go back behind the bars of his crib . |
| 5 | With such a clear need to understand power , why has it , until recently , been avoided by managerial researchers , especially when sociologists have been analysing it for more than a century ? |
| 6 | Besides , he 'd never be able to sustain it for more than a minute or two . |
| 7 | For space close to the king was limited , and few occupied it for more than a decade or so , partly through accidents of mortality , partly through a career-structure in which the holding of high office in the royal household was often the prelude to a provincial post , but most of all through the play of faction around the king . |
| 8 | The maltote too thus became a regular impost , though the commons were not prepared to grant it for more than a year or two at a time for fear of losing control over it and to prevent the king from reviving the monopolistic schemes for exploiting the producers which they had struggled against between 1336 and 1351 . |
| 9 | We have been planning it for more than a year . |
| 10 | If they 've had it for more than a month , encourage them to get out for some fresh air but not too much vigorous exercise . |
| 11 | After I come back to take over the club again , you wo n't be in it for more than a week or two at a time . ’ |
| 12 | Rewarded with a seat on the Privy Council , he held it for less than a month , dying of apoplexy 20 July 1675 . |
| 13 | Mum and Dad did n't find out about Flupper and us for more than a week . |