Example sentences of "for [prep] [adv] [adj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed terribly wrong that her family were still struggling even now to keep their heads above water , that many like them were close to starvation , when the clothes she , Alice , was wearing would have kept them in food for at least half a year . |
| 2 | For at least half a century , as outlined in Chapter 1 , the dominant movement of population and employment at this ‘ two Britains ’ scale has been from North to South . |
| 3 | In the 1590s the Polish king , Sigismund III , invited Marenzio to Warsaw and for at least half a century the directors of the royal chapel were Italians . |
| 4 | If the flank wall is construction of materials which will resist the spread of fire for at least half an hour , then the wall can be sited on the boundary . |
| 5 | Do not let the bird preen for at least half an hour or it will just pull the feather out . |
| 6 | The specimen should be left for at least half an hour for the acetone to evaporate . |
| 7 | Benjamin stuck his tongue out at Peckle 's back , cleared a space on the floor and squatted there for at least half an hour sifting through the contents of the sack . |
| 8 | And that it had been dead for at least half an hour ! |
| 9 | She called the switchboard and asked them to page the physio on call , and was told she was in ITU with a patient and likely to be tied up for at least half an hour . |
| 10 | Regulations stipulate they must be able to withstand heat of up to eight hundred and fifty degrees for at least half an hour . |