Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for very " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence the first floor is a sort of piano nobile , a recent and foreign innovation which did not catch on for very long in smaller English country houses . |
| 2 | His father 's idea of universities was narrow in the extreme and possibly based on his own education which had been one of strict discipline and the basic three Rs ; he had left school at thirteen and had to work hard for very little reward . |
| 3 | The body could not survive healthily for very long on a diet composed of any one type of food . |
| 4 | The weather dictated that stock must remain indoors for very long periods . |
| 5 | Experimentally it is found that while Hooke 's law and its viscoelastic analogue of Boltzmann 's superposition principle hold adequately for very small strains ( typically less than 0.1 per cent ) they certain do not hold for large strains of 10 per cent or more . |
| 6 | You wo n't be staying here for very much longer , and I do n't want your last memory of me to be the way I was yesterday . ’ |
| 7 | When a telephone is installed , it is possible to have a very long flex put on for very little extra cost , and it can then be carried to any room , but you should consider the advantages and disadvantages of this carefully before coming to a decision to have it done , as it has been known to be the cause of accidents to some old people . |
| 8 | She was barely aware of the other models joining her on the platform , followed by Rainmondo himself , something he did only for very important clients . |
| 9 | Although HARPY and TRACE II ‘ hard-wired ’ the left-to-right decision , they did so for very different reasons . |
| 10 | Hopefully you wo n't have to stay here for very long anyway . ’ |
| 11 | Kant , in particular , comes in for very rough treatment . |