Example sentences of "for a [adj] [noun pl] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a thousand years the Elves raised this vast sky-reaching structure . |
| 2 | For a hundred days the issues had to be argued out in front of a High Court judge , Mr Justice Parker . |
| 3 | This was the rime when everyone had a siesta and for a few hours the village was virtually dead . |
| 4 | For a few hours the Tea Master and his guests perform an artistic ritual in which the mundane is washed from their minds . |
| 5 | For a few minutes the prisoner enjoyed the game , but then she suddenly felt wet and sat up . |
| 6 | For a few minutes the sun glimmered through the mist to my right , a red ball just risen above the mountain . |
| 7 | For a few moments the corpse was trapped on a half-sunken log , then an eddy loosed the dead man and carried him westwards . |
| 8 | For a few moments the headlights stayed , then she heard the noise of acceleration and once more all was quiet . |
| 9 | For a few moments the clouds open and we lie in the heat of a hazy sun , our efforts justly rewarded . |
| 10 | For a few moments the pilots sat there , appalled by the racket , upset by the tragedy , unwilling to leave . |
| 11 | For a few years the child population remained at pre-war size and existing facilities could match demand . |
| 12 | Halling had to wait until the 1939–45 war when a military bridge was erected and a road laid down and for a few years the people of Wouldham and Halling were able to move freely between the villages , which was a great asset to the people of Wouldham who used the bridge to get to work on this side of the river , but it was certainly the death knell of the ferry . |
| 13 | For a few days the president agonized over whether to exercise his veto , but , in the end reluctantly signed what was now a Congressional rather than a presidential bill . |
| 14 | For a few seconds the sepoy tried discreetly to shoo her away , hoping to be able to continue unobserved his stealthy creeping through the jungle . |
| 15 | For a few seconds the lights at the Villa Fiesole failed entirely , and in those few seconds there was the sound of the back door being opened and footsteps in the passage . |
| 16 | The man whirled round and for a few seconds the landlord saw his face . |
| 17 | Gerald Sutherland , 41 , said : ‘ For a few seconds the doors were shut and people were really panicking , then they opened and passengers rushed out as quickly as they could . |
| 18 | For a few weeks the controversy featured in the national and even international press , up-market newspapers carrying spicy stories about the leading protagonists and confused attempts to explain the difference between structuralism and poststructuralism to the man on the Clapham omnibus . |
| 19 | For most words in any given language , the variation in form will adhere to some regular pattern ; for a few words the variation will be irregular or only partly regular . |