Example sentences of "[noun prp] for [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When their mother died in 1778 she was sent away to Halifax , to stay with her mother 's cousin , Miss Elizabeth Threlkeld , for nine years ; she then lived at Penrith with her grand-parents , seeing William for only a short time , and from 1789 to 1794 was away from the Lake District again , in the care of her uncle and aunt at Forncett in Norfolk . |
| 2 | Iris has known Philippe for quite a long time . |
| 3 | ‘ I had known David for quite a long time ; we come from Cambridge and I knew him vaguely in the early days — I remember when he joined the Floyd in fact — and I 'd seen him socially over the years . |
| 4 | He had been in the States for only a few months . |
| 5 | Well the first thing is that the City Council is charged with the defence of common land that and Port Meadow is a piece of common land that 's been in the possession of the people of Oxford and Oxfordshire and of England for over a thousand years . |
| 6 | I picked some black carbon fibre frames which had been signed by an Italian designer , made in Japan and retailed in England for over a hundred quid . |
| 7 | It used to be in Bournemouth , they had it at Bournemouth for quite a few years . |
| 8 | We had owned the Sumatras for just a few months , but already we had seen that they are volatile and eccentric birds , much given to sudden screech-ups and bouts of cackling , which in other chickens would denote the arrival of an egg , but from them seem to signify only that they have given themselves a fright . |
| 9 | I had worked as an assistant in Mothercare for quite a few years , so I took out a discount card with them when I was pregnant and I bought everything there at 20 per cent discount . |
| 10 | Then I worked for Jimmy Young for quite a long time … he saved my bacon . |
| 11 | The Great Barrier Reef , running parallel to the eastern coast of Australia for over a thousand miles can be seen from the moon . |
| 12 | The Maréchal de Cadenet , a French ambassador on a special mission who stayed in London for only a few days in 1621 , was given by James I jewellery said to be worth £2,500 , while the duke of Buckingham , the king 's favourite , presented him with ponies and four albino falcons , the latter much prized by huntsmen . |
| 13 | We went with Alec for quite a few years , and sometimes Mother would come too . |
| 14 | The ‘ Rochester ’ method of fingerspelling with speech and lip-reading has been in use in the USA for over a hundred years ( Savage , Evans and Savage , 1981 ) . |
| 15 | Dave said : ‘ I have been raising money for charities at Bidds for quite a few years . |