Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] for [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Central Office tried to keep the local parties alive , for the party truce was only renewed for a few months at a time and parliament was prolonged beyond its five-year term only for a few months at a time too . |
| 2 | Unfortunately the cup was only awarded for a few years before that too disappeared . |
| 3 | Lepine was not cremated for a few days yet , until after the despatch of a couple of his victims also being tended to at the Côte-Des-Neiges cemetery , opposite the mountain , alongside the University of Montreal , where Marc Lepine joined his victims in the silence at the centre . |
| 4 | An office was opened in Nairobi in an attempt to sell advertising time to commercial companies operating from there , and a London representative was later appointed for the same purpose . |
| 5 | A ban on strike action which was also proposed for the same period , with heavy fines for offenders , had been dropped by the parliamentary labour committee when it became clear that it would receive no support , but fines for unofficial strikes were increased . |
| 6 | Beeney was well positioned for the few shots he had to take . |
| 7 | Local information suggests that it was occasionally worked for a few years after this , but by the 1950s had stopped completely . |