Example sentences of "for [adj] [conj] [det] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He had been asleep for less than half an hour . |
2 | Unless you are an especially skilled presenter never talk for more than half an hour without allowing your audience some kind of break . |
3 | We had not been going for more than half an hour when the driver of the sick man 's bullock cart came to me and said that all was now well , we need go no further . |
4 | Once he got started , the Brigadier did n't draw breath for more than half an hour . |
5 | For more than half an hour Adam took Billie through his plan for the next stage of their self-initiated assignment . |
6 | He had been on the telephone for more than half an hour , he said , and had got precious little sense out of them . |
7 | Alexandria Gaunt , aged seven months , was trapped in the cot for more than half an hour as her worried family tried to release her . |
8 | She stunned the medical team by attempting to make conversation for more than half an hour before she lost consciousness . |