Example sentences of "on [pron] [adj] for the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 ft was just about the last poem I wrote on my own for the next six months or so ; it is called ‘ Believing Is Seeing ’ , and it was also about a carving , the sculpture illustrating the miracle of Christ healing the blind man :
2 Tallis was on her own for the first time in her eight years or so in this unimaginable land .
3 Young people striking out on their own for the first time frequently do not have transport and colleges or universities are not always situated in city centres .
4 When they first interviewed Sykes , on Monday this is , he told them he was staying at a cottage in the Lake District entirely on his own for the first two and a half weeks in September .
5 I 'm glad you wo n't be on your own for the first night .
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