Example sentences of "[verb] run for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Midland Guaranteed Capital Bond is a unit-linked single premium life assurance policy designed to run for five years . |
| 2 | Irrespective of the use of surrogates , monitoring environmental processes only makes sense over time-scales which are extended by human standards ( hence the IGBP ( see below ) is designed to run for two or three decades ) ; |
| 3 | The scheme has run for three years and , during that time , around 180 dogs and bitches have been neutered . |
| 4 | " Where are we going and how long will it be before some of us stop running for good and all ? " |
| 5 | And if you stop running for two blocks , you 're a dead man . ’ |
| 6 | The flow pattern , and allowed to run for many years of simulated time , generating a sequence of day-to-day ‘ weather ’ , |
| 7 | Although the parquet was then expected to take steps to bring the document to the attention of the defendant , service was already complete and time began to run for various purposes regardless of the date upon which the defendant received actual notice of the proceedings . |
| 8 | Originally scheduled to run for 15 years , the subsidy period was reduced to eight years after objections from the European Commission , which was particularly concerned over long-term support for the nuclear industry . |
| 9 | The present scheme is intended to run for two years , at a cost of £30,000 , until longer-term measures to raise water levels in the area will have an effect . |
| 10 | The course is set to run for six Wednesdays from April 29 with sessions from 10–11.30am . |
| 11 | Had he not done so , the probability is the probation order would have run for six months and no one would have been any the wiser . ’ |
| 12 | So although the machine may have run for eight minutes , it was not an uninterrupted eight minutes . |
| 13 | Never having run for public office does not daunt this ‘ can-do ’ folk hero who once sent a team of ex-commandos into Iran to rescue two of his employees being held hostage . |
| 14 | No matter about the slump in the property market , nor that there does n't seem to be any money about : they 'll come running for these . |
| 15 | So great a flood … has been estimated to have run for 2 weeks . |
| 16 | But then it does run for 20 nights . |
| 17 | MY WORST and only health problem developed after I was mugged five years ago outside the Embassy Club in Manchester , which I 've run for 32 years . |
| 18 | The Committee made no reference to complaints from Members , although the IBA survey showed that the percentage of MPs who found the Chamber too hot rose from 9 before the experiment to 36 after it had run for four months . |
| 19 | It was a freezing morning and the Section had run for five miles over muddy paths and swampy fields . |
| 20 | Then , when the truce had run for little more than three years , Richard II was deposed and murdered , his place as king of England being taken by Henry IV , the son of John of Gaunt . |
| 21 | And he 's erm when we were thinking about tax planning , I was thinking that if a , a , a qualifying endowment , if it 's run for ten years , the one big advantage is that it always pays without deduction of tax . |
| 22 | Sometime this year , when they find the five-bedroom house and 100 acres or so they want , they will take themselves and the building business they have run for 10 years down there permanently . |