Example sentences of "[adj] for [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | problems outstanding for more than five working days . |
| 2 | problems which have been outstanding for more than five days |
| 3 | The computer printed report should be annotated to indicate those problems which are outstanding for more than five days or which led to a Change Request . |
| 4 | Car production at Tatra has not been profitable for more than 40 years . |
| 5 | The half-facelift operation cost £2,500 and left her bruised and sore for more than three weeks . |
| 6 | Previously this ratio had remained stable for more than 20 years . |
| 7 | Because it is not possible for more than four people to share a freehold , the owners of each of the six units formed themselves into a management company in order to buy the building ; each became a director of the company and was given a 999-year lease of his or her dwelling . |
| 8 | As in the case of true ESSs , it is possible for more than one strategy to be collectively stable at the same time . |
| 9 | It is possible for more than one social role to be relevant at one time . |
| 10 | If the tax-transfer system creates a budget constraint that is nonlinear and non-convex , then it is possible for more than one tangency with an indifference curve to arise , and indeed for the same indifference curve to have two tangency points , and small changes in the budget constraint can cause the chosen number of hours to jump from one segment of the constraint to another ( e.g.points 6 and 7 in Fig. 12–2(c) ) . |
| 11 | Of course , it is possible for more than one disturbance to occur at the same time so that the cyclical variations generated , although inherently damped , may be quite large . |
| 12 | But it 's been unused for more than two years and is now derelict . |
| 13 | Swiftly Miranda outlined her problem , grateful for once that her personal involvement with Adam was a secret . |
| 14 | Writing this damn history has kept me alive for more than ten years . |
| 15 | Thus profiling is always likely to be seen as of peripheral importance to the academically able , central only to those who have already been deemed unsuitable for further or higher education . |
| 16 | Posi obliged , revealing that Fraxilly was a small human planet , a member of SenFed for less than three hundred years , remote and poor and backward . |
| 17 | A career that began at Stoke City in 1930 , he played as a professional for more than 30 years . |
| 18 | I think what you want to do now , write down a list of what you want him to do and let Steve do that for tomorrow if you can and then let's see if we can make him stick to that list cos otherwise he 'll be here in |
| 19 | What , is that for tonight or |
| 20 | I mean I 've been doing that for ever since we 've been on . |
| 21 | If she takes that for more than seven days it can poison her system . |
| 22 | My concern over this for almost as long as I can remember . |
| 23 | Bachet said that he had checked this for more than 300 numbers but did not know how to prove it . |
| 24 | I 've had four in the morning 's like this for more than fifteen years . |
| 25 | I could not tolerate this for long and at the end of February last year I retired from Hall Automation ; a sad day . |
| 26 | We could work on a paper like this for ever and never conclude anything . |
| 27 | The number unemployed for more than six months has doubled in the past year . |
| 28 | Our aim is to ensure that anyone who is unemployed for more than six months has a choice of job experience or training . |
| 29 | In 1979 , a survey carried out by the Manpower Services Commission showed that 65 per cent of those people unemployed for more than one year were over thirty-five years of age . |
| 30 | Long-term regional unemployment ( measured here by those unemployed for more than three years ) is often taken as a good indicator of how deep a region 's problems may be . |