Example sentences of "[v-ing] for a [adj] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around £150 for family holidays , allowing for a few days reasonably riding as part of the package . |
| 2 | Are we looking for the year two thousand , or are we looking for a hundred years later than that , or what ? — the sort of age we have been describing in this programme ? |
| 3 | I was on time but kept waiting for a few minutes so that the assembled Health Authority Chairmen and administrators could pass a motion condemning the Government 's offer as divisive . |
| 4 | The Hagen Biolife filter in our office tank has been running for a few weeks now , and one or two little problems have shown up . |
| 5 | Day by day , under the hot September sun , it wound its way steadily southwestwards , stopping for a few hours here , for half a week there , while Balboa attempted — in most cases , successfully — to make and consolidate friendships with the leaders of the tribes on whose lands he trod . |
| 6 | We left the infirmary , standing for a few minutes outside , drinking in the sweet morning air . |
| 7 | Now that 's settled can I carry on moping for a few hours more ? ’ |