Example sentences of "[adv] for a [adj] time [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A worker-directed study conducted in the mid-1970s considered as temporary workers all who had a job which was available only for a limited time and all who were themselves available for their jobs for only a limited period of time . |
| 2 | According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle A ( s.a. 755 ) Beornred succeeded to the kingdom on the death of Aethelbald but held it only for a short time and unhappily . |
| 3 | Because we knew that the headmaster of the Scuola Medie Inferiori , where I was now in my last year , was not in a position to punish us if we did not appear for lessons on demonstration days , many of us took part only for a short time and then went home . |
| 4 | ‘ We were together for a long time but we grew apart and we have both been working hard . ’ |
| 5 | And , as I say , we 've been together for a long time and the appointment , the changeover of the appointments |
| 6 | It was very good very very good for women that have been home for a long time and want to get their confidence back . |
| 7 | Many people with HIV stay well for a long time and you would never know they had the virus . |
| 8 | ‘ I have not felt so well for a long time and I shall be tempted to be very vulgar in my speech . ’ |
| 9 | If your engine is fitted with a viscous coupled cooling fan and the viscous unit is faulty after running the engine fast for a short time and then slowing down the fan continues to spin freely and even speeds up . |
| 10 | We will help those that we have to help legally , or perhaps those whom people want to help , but we will not have foisted upon us those who come here for a good time and a good life . |
| 11 | " Signs of a coming plateau have been there for a long time and are now getting better and better " , according to independent consultant Richard Kimberlin . |
| 12 | We all think it 's going to stay there for a long time and , and there are varieties now , bred specially to be immune from er T M V and er , we use things like Counter or Curabell , or one of my favourites of course Shirley . |
| 13 | He watched her closely for a long time but there was no further flicker of consciousness . |
| 14 | Sometimes the virus stays there quietly for a long time and the person stays well . |