Example sentences of "for [adj] [noun pl] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Check around the outside of your house for weak spots where a thief could get in — a low fence , an unlocked gate . |
| 2 | Tobacco advertising through sponsorship and billboards had been waiting like the last prisoners on death row for eight months following a cabinet announcement in April 1992 that the end of their last ditch stand was nigh . |
| 3 | She should also swim for 30 minutes once a week and do my video Thighs , Tums & Bums 1-2 times a week . |
| 4 | They do n't wait for 30 minutes once a week . ’ |
| 5 | In such circumstances either credits are arranged with merchants for surplus materials less a restocking charge , or they are sold or scrapped . |
| 6 | He is allowed visitors for 10 minutes once a week . |
| 7 | Xishe 's wife is allowed to see him for 45 minutes twice a year . |
| 8 | When I did this course ( in 1988 at Lewisham College ) I went to tutorials for three hours twice a week , at which theory was taught , and we engaged in teaching exercises assessed by our peers and tutors . |
| 9 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |
| 10 | ( b ) Alternative accommodation for alleged abusers Where a child is suffering or likely to suffer ill-treatment within the home and the alleged abuser proposes to move from the premises , a local authority may assist him to obtain alternative accommodation ( Sched 2 , para 5 ) . |
| 11 | A farm on the other side of the lane provided fresh eggs , the stench of cow shit , and a rabid mongrel roped to a tree who barked for twenty minutes whenever a car went by . |
| 12 | Okay now we 've had this for twenty years so a lot of these have been resold of course . |
| 13 | Mr Steward may feel that the project is ‘ low key ’ , but when a nine acre sand and gravel pit is proposed to be worked for four years only a matter of 45 metres from the nearest residence and 280 metres from the centre of Cross Green ( Atlas Aggregate 's figures ) , the residents of Cockfield are entitled to feel differently . |
| 14 | And why is why is going upside down for two minutes twice a day gon na make it grow again ? |
| 15 | For most parents probably a mixture of both . |
| 16 | That may change ; for , in recent years , developments in banking and commercial circles have led to the invention of a remarkable array of new and highly sophisticated types of ‘ securitised ’ loan investments as a result of which finance , which would formerly have been raised by a straightforward bank loan ( for most purposes not a debenture ) may be obtained through the issue of instruments , some of which for most purposes unquestionably are debentures and others of which may or may not be . |