Example sentences of "[vb base] for [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such comparison can not justify that performance — nothing can justify leaving 20,000 properties empty for more than a year . |
| 2 | The total number of people waiting for NHS treatment in the UK rose to more than one million in March 1990. 25% of inpatients wait for longer than a year for treatment . |
| 3 | No less than three supporters , all before opening time , have told me that they know for certain that a League chairman has been watching me in recent weeks . |
| 4 | The identities of chemical units that normally exist for less than a microsecond are important clues to how reactions take place . |
| 5 | In semelparous forms , which breed only once , there is often a sudden loss of function after reproduction ; adult mayflies live for less than a week , and male Pacific salmon show catastrophic senescence after their single breeding attempt . |