Example sentences of "for [prep] [adv] a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This should not happen for at least a million years … but there is an outside chance that it could happen tomorrow . ) |
| 2 | I do not remember whether we enlivened the day with a penny ride on a donkey round the White Stone pond but I regarded these donkeys with the respect and admiration rarely afforded by the keenest jockey for his mount and one of my day-dreams ( only once realised and then somehow a little disappointing ) was to save up three weeks ' pocket money and have a 3d ride in place of a Id one , which took you for at least a hundred yards along the Spaniards Road . |
| 3 | It was uncrossable for at least a hundred yards , but then my side appeared to slope more easily to its floor . |
| 4 | ‘ Lee , nobody who has n't known you for at least a hundred years is going to appreciate oblique and esoteric … ’ |
| 5 | There were only two chairs in the whole place for at least a dozen women many now uncomfortably unsupported by girdle or bra . |
| 6 | Foreign Secretary David Owen was not keen to support the British Shipbuilder 's tender to supply six Type 21 frigates to Argentina , for at least a billion pounds . |