Example sentences of "for [det] [conj] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ Mrs Henry Cox ’ , too busy for some but a favourite with many for over a century |
| 2 | Early retirement may be a release from employment for some and a refuge from the severe insecurity of the labour market for others . |
| 3 | As I say I was sitting there adding it up , a pound for this and a pound for that and your meal , a fiver for Maggie , I 'm twenty pound short off you |
| 4 | There were a lot of arguments for this and a lot against . |
| 5 | Not all the the MPs are voting for this because a lot of people ca n't have work , let alone have a pay increase . |
| 6 | Underground cellars may be cool enough for all but a handful of northerly ( ArticBoreal ) species . |
| 7 | List Relationships can list full or partial tight relationships for all or a part of the database . |
| 8 | An emaciated rice cropper from the Red River delta who had been forced south like many others because typhoons had recently inundated the rice lands , he had worked in the rubber plantation for less than a month before succumbing to the fever . |
| 9 | Whether yours is a family garden which has to sustain the rigorous attentions of children , a more sedate garden for entertaining al fresco , or a small city garden with little room for more than a couple of raised flowers beds , a patio can give your home and lifestyle a whole new dimension . |
| 10 | Even the biggest stars rarely sell 6m copies ( as Janet must do if Virgin is to make a profit ) for more than a couple of records . |
| 11 | The second , or spare rod , is never left to fish for itself for more than a couple of minutes . |
| 12 | Kelly liked the man but dreaded those rare occasions when their conversations lasted for more than a couple of sentences . |
| 13 | I ca n't hang around with anyone , if I hang around with anyone that 's a smackhead for more than a couple of days , then it 's going to be tempting , so I 've got to keep meself away from them . |
| 14 | One broken collar-bone , and a cut on the back of his shoulder — and even that refused to bleed for more than a couple of minutes . |
| 15 | For more than a mile in each direction not a tree , not a bush , scarcely a blade of grass , grew . |
| 16 | It 's a whirlwind ride which rarely lingers for more than a minute on individual songs until we reach the '90s and the Zoo TV extravaganza . |
| 17 | Her breezy smile left little room for more than a grin of agreement . |
| 18 | The Khmer Rouge does not want to rock the boat , having waited patiently for more than a decade for the Vietnamese to leave . |
| 19 | The second route was to give the library user direct access to those machine-readable bibliographic records from which card and computer output microform ( COM ) catalogues had been produced for more than a decade through shared centralized cataloguing . |
| 20 | Implicitly , they have accepted many of the criticisms made for more than a decade by Labour councils and civil libertarians : that a force which has dug itself in behind ramparts of elitist isolationism must begin to respond to demands of the public it serves and their political representatives . |
| 21 | In 1989 they accounted for more than a quarter of BR 's total charter-train revenue — and the trend is ever upwards . |
| 22 | At one point the queue stretched four deep for more than a quarter of mile . |
| 23 | The SNP needs a swing of nearly 9 per cent but the polls show the Nationalists gaining ground in Scotland and Labour and the Liberals — who accounted for more than a quarter of the vote in Galloway last time — are likely to be squeezed . |
| 24 | One woman with this problem , whose rather self-absorbed elderly mother used to keep her on the telephone for hours with doom-laden conversations , solved it by telling her that she had developed migraine which was always triggered off by holding a phone to her ear for more than a quarter of an hour at a time ! |
| 25 | Schools and their children have suffered change after change for more than a quarter of a century , especially since the Tories came to power . |
| 26 | For more than a quarter of a million motorists , choosing a car can be an especially frustrating experience . |
| 27 | Runciman had sympathisers within the Federation in favour of a more liberal approach which , he believed , would bring a ready response from Wilson , but they were in a minority to those dominated by the formidable George A. and Cuthbert Laws , father and son , whose implacable anti-union line prevailed for more than a quarter of a century . |
| 28 | ‘ I doubt if Aldhelm would have lain helpless for more than a quarter of an hour from that blow on the head . |
| 29 | For more than a quarter of a century historians have been using computers to help analyse voting behaviour in English parliamentary elections . |
| 30 | Cabezon was certainly in England with his master , Philip of Spain , for more than a year during 1554–5 when it is improbable that he was not known to Blitheman who was in the service of Mary I. Perhaps also a copy of his belatedly published Obras de musica ( 1578 ) found its way to England , offering models of song variation . |