Example sentences of "live for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scott inherited the family estate in 1596 , but from 1612 until towards the end of his life he lived for a good part of the year in Canterbury . |
| 2 | In 1902 he lived for a short period in Clerkenwell , east London . |
| 3 | A TOTALLY PSYCHEDELIC GUY , aged 16 , who lives for a good time is out to see if there are any zany females into Pink Floyd , Cult and The Who . |
| 4 | If we were biologically capable of living for a million years , and wanted to do so , we should assess risks quite differently . |
| 5 | Untrained in any art school , commencing his career in the early 1930s , a homosexual , addicted to the sleazier pleasures of Soho , living for a large portion of his life in the same seedy studio in South Kensington , eschewing all official honours , and a stranger to what used to be called the ‘ salons ’ of high society , he succeeded in expressing in frightening imagery the horrors which lie embedded below the surface of life . |
| 6 | He then occupied a country living for a few years before returning to Winchester as chaplain to the Bishop , George Morley , who was a close friend of Izaak Walton . |
| 7 | Is there anybody else please who 's going to live for a long time ? |
| 8 | Air is so vital that it is only possible to live for a few minutes without it . |
| 9 | If feeding and antibiotics continued to be administered Tony could be expected to live for a few more years . |
| 10 | Sickle cell anaemia follows a highly variable clinical course : some sufferers die in infancy from the disabling effects of recurrent crises or overwhelming infection , but others live for a normal lifespan . |
| 11 | We know , too , that we exist in the fourth dimension , time , because we live for a certain number of years ; besides , the fact that we can move in three dimensions implies our existence in the fourth , because movement requires time . |
| 12 | ‘ I have n't played guitar synth live for a long time , but what I use is a Photon MIDI converter , which I actually got about two weeks ago ; I put it on one of my Steinberger guitars . |
| 13 | But the treatment has to be repeated because the Americans transplanted the gene into cells that only live for a few months . |
| 14 | The adults live for a few weeks , but the " juvenile " stage ( technically " nymphs " rather than larvae ) lasts for 13 years ( in some varieties ) or 17 years ( in other varieties ) . |
| 15 | There are some , like erm , oak trees live five or six hundred years if they 're lucky , pines can live for a thousand years , giant tortoises for two hundred , well these are quite impressive figures , but let's face it it 's not very long , erm , compared with the time that evolution has been at it . |
| 16 | They enjoy earthworms , shrimps and pellet food and will live for a good ten years or more if they 're cared for correctly . |
| 17 | Having chosen your leather corals carefully , and provided them with a good aquarium environment , they should grow steadily and live for a long time ( ten years has been reported ) , and possibly even reproduce . |
| 18 | Old man are you gon na live for a long time ? |
| 19 | Any actuarial calculation must therefore be discounted to allow for the chance that he may only live for a shorter period . |
| 20 | He says that if it 's given regular pruning there 's no reason why it should n't live for a few hundred years more . |
| 21 | The longer the lapse of time the less your chance of success , but ferrets can live for a considerable period within a burrow system — as much as three weeks . |
| 22 | Peggy had lived for a long time with an aunt while her daddy and mummy were abroad , and she had been spoilt by always getting her own way . |
| 23 | The blow would have killed him instantly — at least , he might have lived for a few minutes in a technical sense , but he would have been unconscious and effectively dead . |
| 24 | There the Millers may have lived for a short while . |