Example sentences of "only [verb] [adv] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos he , he , well he said she only lived there for two months . |
| 2 | Luckily Mike Farquharson who had only come offshore for two days and ended up staying a week , volunteered to cover until my colleague Jim Gibb arrived . ’ |
| 3 | These figures only hold accurately for large files — 100 or more tracks in extent — although they will act as a guide even for very small files . |
| 4 | Because we believe in stable democratic government supported by a majority of the British people , we shall not only campaign wholeheartedly for fair votes in the coming weeks , we also make a pledge for the period after the election . |
| 5 | They have only played together for 45 minutes at international level , when Shearer scored on his debut against France nine months ago . |
| 6 | Luke stayed away for two weeks , during which time Maria had convinced herself that she was unlikely ever to see him again without actively seeking him out , so she could only stare incredulously for several seconds when she opened her apartment door in response to the bell 's summons early on a Friday evening and found him standing there . |
| 7 | In a larger study assessing endurance over nine days under different levels of sleep loss , the APRE reported that with no sleep at all soldiers could only operate effectively for four days , while with I.5 hours ' sleep a day 50 per cent of a platoon lasted nine days in the field , and nearly all of a platoon allowed 3 hours sleep completed the nine-day exercise . |
| 8 | Well I , well I say , we 've looked at it slightly different because we 've only , we 've only worked together for five weeks . |
| 9 | Beresford came under almost non-stop pressure for the final hour of the match but was only beaten once for all Huddersfield 's domination . |