Example sentences of "for [art] [adj] [noun sg] or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , local authorities almost always consider anything sent to them until the point where the report is prepared for the relevant committee or even later . |
| 2 | There was an unresolved discussion in the case as to whether the lessee continued liable for the entire rent or merely for an apportioned part of it , which is all that the plaintiff claimed . |
| 3 | Another problem is that the tests show practice effects ; that is , for the first day or so of testing , subjects ' performances improve greatly ( and so mask any daily rhythms ) as they are getting used to the tests and are developing their personal ways of tackling them . |
| 4 | For the first day or so after the flight you might find it helps to retire to bed one or two hours earlier than your normal time — but no earlier than that ! |
| 5 | A ‘ lie-in ’ of one to two hours but no more is permissible for the first day or so . |
| 6 | But only for the first day or so ; after a week I ca n't wait to return to Koraloona . ’ |
| 7 | It 's probably best not to feed your fish for the first day or so as they settle in ( though some fish will feed within a few minutes of being stocked ) . |
| 8 | And from a bonding point of view , breastfeeding — even for the first day or so — is very valuable . ’ |
| 9 | For the first year or so it turns you into a kind of psychopathic animal and then suddenly , like a butterfly emerging from the pupa , you sprout wings , your heart opens , you become … charming . |
| 10 | For the first year or so some of the people , particularly in the big independent television ( ITV ) companies , were incredibly scornful of both Liz Forgan and myself . |
| 11 | For the first year or so of the war , oil and gas operations in the Gulf , leaving aside the damaged Iraqi terminals , continued very much as in the 1970s . |
| 12 | If the child does n't want to go for the first test or even the second test , it is their right . ’ |
| 13 | RIVER CROSSENS : Good fishery but often slow for the first week or so until fish located . |
| 14 | He concluded that after the main chute had failed to open , Mr Tipping ( 34 ) either could not locate the handle for the reserve chute or possibly pulled the dummy by mistake as he hurtled towards the ground . |
| 15 | Cold predominates : the mean temperature in some months in the North American tundra may be -30°C , and in Siberia an astonishing -50°C ; and in summer , the ground may remain frozen solid ( ‘ permafrost ’ ) except for the top metre or so . |
| 16 | One of the lads is proud of the fact that he has managed to avoid doing any writing for the past year or so ! |
| 17 | Germany is at last waking up to the what has been clear to outsiders for the past year or so , that there is going to be no quick fix to the recession it is facing and that it will be long and grinding : this week the BDI industrial federation admitted that the downturn could develop into Germany 's worst recession since the end of World War II , saying that the western German economy will continue to decline , and the fall will be deeper than previously thought , so that in important sectors such as the capital goods industry the downturn will represent a new post-war record ; the body blames weak foreign demand for German goods , the now over-valued mark and rising costs for German industry and now admits it is the result of structural problems that will have long-term economic effects . |
| 18 | Sun Microsystems Inc has been under withering fire for the past year or so from companies seduced into trying to build machines compatible with Sun 's own — and then finding that the company artfully withholds all the best bits for itself . |
| 19 | For the past year or so , all hon. Members except my hon. Friends on the Front Bench have sung from the same hymn book about decommissioning . |
| 20 | Learning has been a major topic within academic psychology for the past century or so . |
| 21 | For the past week or so Dora has been getting steadily more frustrated at the way things are going between Rose and Dieter . |
| 22 | The ME Polartek Sweater has hardly been off my back for the past month or so . |
| 23 | For the Third World or rather the underdeveloped world these questions have existed for the greater part of this century . |
| 24 | And it was , were you shop steward for the whole factory or just part of the factory ? |
| 25 | For the last hour or so Lewis ground it out with Smith , the Notts man restrained to the tune of eight runs in 19 overs , Smith reaching a 101-ball fifty . |
| 26 | He mounted the horse he had led for the last hour or so and walked it cautiously down into Buttermere which he entered with the utter conviction that he had been there before . |
| 27 | For the last year or so he 's gained a reputation as ‘ Jack the sniper ’ . |
| 28 | They have n't been as much part of my life as I would like , because for the last year or so it has been more or less taken up by the future of the channel . |
| 29 | Oh , I wish I could have continued as I 've been for the last year or so , with no hopes or fears , and no pleasures and no sadness . ’ |
| 30 | Well , she 's been having an affair with this bloke for the last year or so and then out of the blue he turned round and … |