Example sentences of "[vb past] for [adj] [conj] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His was not the look of a man who vacationed for three and a half months in a place where bird-watching was high on the entertainment list . |
| 2 | Alan Bond jailed for two and a half years |
| 3 | On 4 March 1250 he was made chief justice of the forest on both sides of the Trent , an office which he exercised for two and a half years until 25 October 1252 . |
| 4 | It survived for two and a half years under the Georgian Social Democrats ( mainly Menshevik ) , and instituted important reforms . |
| 5 | If he disappeared for more than a few hours she became frantic and ran to the Zborowskis ' apartment in the Rue Joseph Bara to ask for news , and almost lived there until he was eventually found . |
| 6 | A riot reigned for two and a half hours after the last game ended . |
| 7 | . they were the last words he spoke for 2 and a half years |
| 8 | Speaking at a meeting attended by some 400 people in the local village hall that continued for two and a half hours local primary teacher Donal O'Connor said children should not be used in future protests . |
| 9 | One woman walked for an hour through the snow to catch the bus to Skipton , waited for three and a half hours to meet Hannah , and still went home smiling . |
| 10 | It was in New Zealand , where he stayed for three and a half years , that he first entered the world of Bohemia and found himself getting on best with artists . |
| 11 | As powerless as the train , we sat for three and a half hours in the dark — key phrase , that — before a locomotive of more elderly years arrived from Newcastle to give us a croggy . |