Example sentences of "for [det] than [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent view is that a postsynaptic kinase is activated transiently ( for less than a few minutes following the tetanus ) and a presynaptic kinase is activated for longer periods ( but for less than 1 hour ) . |
| 2 | Moreover , the nature of sickness benefit from the state and from many employers means that people who are off work ill for less than a few months may not be worse off financially , anyway . |
| 3 | I shall not strain the good will of hon. Members who have supported the Bill by speaking for more than a few moments . |
| 4 | As Becky drew her bath , she thought about Daphne 's words , delivered with humour and affection but still highlighting the problems she faced when trying to cross the established social barriers for more than a few moments . |
| 5 | The ‘ patchwork pieces ’ could never be economically viable because they took time to cut , arrange and bag , yet were never sold for more than a few pence . |
| 6 | Although Frankie had been dozing , he was too hungry to sleep for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 7 | As I said in an earlier chapter , the principle of speaking is not to go on for more than a few minutes without getting your audience to do something — applaud or laugh or raise their hands . |
| 8 | TOWARDS the end of her life my mother was in hospital , a victim of Alzheimer 's Disease , a severe diabetic , unable to walk and increasingly unable to remain conscious for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 9 | Hauser noticed again that Frank was very physical , could hardly keep still for more than a few minutes . |
| 10 | I had not been counting own goals for more than a few minutes when I heard extraordinary sounds coming from my wardrobe . |
| 11 | The back-to-back pair of dessert spoons riffled through his fingers , producing an intricate , staccato percussion which he was , however , unable to keep up for more than a few minutes together ; then he would get his fingers tangled up and the spoons would clang to a halt and he would shake his head furiously and begin all over again . |
| 12 | A breathless , pervasive sense of heat possessed her body at every return of the memory and she was unable to remain settled and at ease in her seat for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 13 | Downes himself could not stay for more than a few minutes . |
| 14 | Not for more than a few minutes ; just time enough to look around with his eyes , around and back at things that had happened to him . |
| 15 | There were times during the long hours of dark when he did drop into an uneasy doze , but never for more than a few minutes together . |
| 16 | If he disappeared for more than a few hours she became frantic and ran to the Zborowskis ' apartment in the Rue Joseph Bara to ask for news , and almost lived there until he was eventually found . |
| 17 | So why , then , does her depression return whenever she ventures away-from home for more than a few hours ? |
| 18 | Smith himself insisted that his other commitments did not interfere with his mathematics , as that demanded a concentration too great to be maintained for more than a few hours a day . |
| 19 | Temperature tolerance to higher temperatures by even the hardiest rockpool creatures is within such narrow limits that if the water warms up to over 2° above that in which the animal is naturally found for more than a few hours , the animal will surely die . |
| 20 | We were due at Chauk , an old field town , next day and Captain Tizzard advised me to take Rachel to the hospital there , but warned me that he could not delay his sailing for more than a few hours . |
| 21 | For a day and a night the feasting on the horse filled everyone in the enclave with a dreadful exultation , but gradually it died down as the garrison came to realize that one horse was hardly enough to stay their hunger for more than a few hours . |
| 22 | A battery 's charge-holding capacity can also be seriously reduced if it is kept in a discharged state for more than a few hours . |
| 23 | The spermicide did n't stay hostile to sperm for more than a few hours . |
| 24 | When Thorfinn was never to be seen in one place for more than a few hours , and when he no longer looked like a man with a fleet ready loaded for sea , but like a man already on board and lifting his ship to meet the first swell of the storm . |
| 25 | ‘ The barrow now belongs to you , so never let it or the pitch out of your sight for more than a few hours at a time . ’ |
| 26 | The company 's employees have embarked on a strike that could seriously disrupt international air travel if it lasts for more than a few weeks . |
| 27 | If there is a need for screening , it is in identifying the types of congenital malformations , such as anencephalus , which will not permit the child to live for more than a few weeks . |
| 28 | Often in trouble with the police , he was unable to keep any job for more than a few weeks . |
| 29 | ‘ Not best known for their reliability , mind , travelling about the country , never being in one place for more than a few weeks , got to be careful there . ’ |
| 30 | If you have any surplus seeds such as peas , beans , lupins — all nitrogen fixers — then sow them if the ground is going to be vacant for more than a few weeks . |