Example sentences of "for [num] [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is obvious from his writings that Battuta was most impressed by what was to be for eight years his adopted city . |
| 2 | With 1,465 golf courses now in operation and planning approval granted for 762 more , the heyday of farmers selling their land for three times its agricultural value may be past . |
| 3 | I missed very much the man who was for fifteen years our first trombone ; he trained the group to the very highest level . |
| 4 | Mr Stobart , who has run Jodie 's for nine years his first venture into the catering business said he knew , after six unannounced visits by Egon Ronay testers , that the restaurant was going to be included in this year 's edition . |
| 5 | For twelve days her subconscious mind had ‘ seen ’ Sylvia calmly and confidently entering the cupboard under the stairs with no signs of panic ; so when , on the thirteenth day , she came to do it in reality there was still no need for anxiety to manifest itself . |
| 6 | ‘ But if we could swap jobs for one day my first task would be to address the Free World wearing the Everton strip , then run a Blues flag up the mast at the White House . ’ |
| 7 | For one thing your own troops will probably end up blocking the line of sight . |
| 8 | For twenty years his widowed mother had kept a small shop in a St Helens slum , only accepting an occasional small amount of money and putting off other help with ‘ the same naive reply : ‘ It 's very good of you , dear lad , and I appreciate it , but as long as I can manage it , I shall prefer to have my feet under my own fender . ’ |
| 9 | For two hours our own guns have been bombarding us , and if it goes on I shall take my company and bombard the gunner with these grenades ! ’ |