Example sentences of "be [adj] for [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paula had been dry for almost a year before the taxi fracas . |
| 2 | They had been free for nearly a month . |
| 3 | The lucky ones have found jobs , of course , but many others have now been unemployed for over a year — or even two years in a significant number of cases . |
| 4 | The bungalow , in a pretty Worcestershire village , has been empty for nearly a year . |
| 5 | HaL Computer Systems Inc , Campbell , California , remains one of the most difficult companies to ferret information out of so we 're grateful for even a glimmer of intelligence . |
| 6 | Wait until the baby has been well for about a week , and then reintroduce each food in turn , beginning with those least likely to cause trouble , and testing cow 's milk last . |
| 7 | They had been married for about a year . |
| 8 | The house was in need of total renovation and would not be habitable for nearly a year , but the Ashleys moved into a hotel in Le Touquet from where they hoped to oversee the extensive repairs to the exterior and interior . |
| 9 | Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania-based Transarc Corp will begin shipping its Distributed Computing Environment and Encina transaction processing monitor for SunSoft Inc Solaris 2.1 and 2.2 from next month — the development kits for both the environments have been available for over a year . |
| 10 | Transarc Corp will begin shipping its Distributed Computing Environment and Encina on-line transaction processing monitor for SunSoft Inc Solaris 2.1 and 2.2 from next month — development kits for both environments have been available for over a year . |
| 11 | Demand for the new product , which has been available for around a year under MS-DOS , is apparently spiralling with orders received so far from British Telecommunications Plc , Sun Alliance , Citibank and retailer The Body Shop . |
| 12 | Meanwhile Dennis Peck , the erstwhile president of Interactive Systems Corp and the man who presided over the sale of half of it to SunSoft Inc , has joined Sequent Computer Systems Inc as senior vice president of marketing , a position that 's been open for over a year . |
| 13 | But now I 've been drug-free for over a year erm but I 'd been trying for a few year before that and had nay managed to succeed . |
| 14 | Given the fullness of most fields by the end of the first main phase of the PCAS cycle , the continuing applications procedure and late applications are relevant for only a minority of subjects , sometimes including new fields which suffer from uncertainty as their approval is pending . |
| 15 | oh you it 's due for about a bit more then |
| 16 | Statistically the chemical industry is responsible for just a fraction of dioxin ‘ production ’ from combustion with domestic fires accounting for a much larger chunk . |
| 17 | This situation only arises when the motor is stationary ; if the motor is moving the phases are excited in sequence and any one winding is excited for only a fraction of the cycle . |
| 18 | Like Krakatoa , Mt Pelee had been active for quite a time before disaster struck . |
| 19 | About twenty years after the sack of Aurae Phiala , Honorius finally issued an edict that recognised what had been true for nearly a century . |
| 20 | But , dear Christ , they could hardly talk : Paddy with his bashed-in nose , the look of a hog and a missing leg ; and the woman — his wife ? — she was lucky for even a guy like him . |
| 21 | ‘ He was ill for about a week . |
| 22 | In all of the forested areas sampled by Eyre , commercial lumber production was responsible for only a proportion of the deforestation . |
| 23 | I was bad for over a week with my neck ! |
| 24 | I was bad for about a week . |