Example sentences of "like [det] for the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asked if he had been tempted to quit at any time during the past eight days , he raised a smile and a quip : ‘ I 've felt like that for the last two years ! |
| 2 | Norman , 47 , was to stay like that for the next two-and-a-half years . |
| 3 | Riven wondered if it would be like this for the next six weeks , and wiped his nose , thinking of the dark girl barefoot in the snows . |
| 4 | Breathe like this for the next two minutes . |
| 5 | ‘ Are you going to treat me like this for the next ten years ? ’ |
| 6 | This is it , Middle Age , and it will go on like this for the next thirty-six years until , without any big deal , without even noticing probably , it will be Old Age and we 'll still be sitting here . |