Example sentences of "[pron] for [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But you want me for more than one night . ’ |
| 2 | We will require employers to give everyone who works for them for more than eight hours a week a clear written statement of their terms and conditions of employment . |
| 3 | Parent : ‘ He does n't play with them for more than 5 minutes before wanting to throw them at the wall . ’ |
| 4 | Many of the people who were targeted to move from hospital under the scheme have been in hospital for many years , many of them for more than 40 or 50 years . |
| 5 | We had n't seen them for more than eight years , as they had lived in Florida before moving to Corfu . |
| 6 | His return represented a landmark in the rehabilitation of the Uniate Church , which for more than 40 years had been the world 's largest banned religious organization . |
| 7 | Against this notion , the reformers contended that , in Bentham 's words , ‘ each should count for one and nobody for more than one ’ . |
| 8 | It is impossible for us to appreciate the impact of this dramatic change amongst people who for more than 40 years had been rigorously controlled by a centrally planned economy , implemented by a national and local bureaucracy . |
| 9 | American , Australia , Canada , New Zealand , France , Denmark , Holland , Norway and Greece all have them — Sweden has had one for more than 200 years . |
| 10 | It 's basically , I mean , you know , who 's really gon na want one for less than ten years . |
| 11 | I know , but I want to see how much there worth , so there about , see if we can get one for less than twenty pounds ca n't you . |
| 12 | As for Henry , nothing short of Middle Eastern arms shipment would satisfy him and unlikely that Acid Rain Testing Kit will divert him for more than five seconds . |
| 13 | Dalgliesh had n't seen him for more than ten years when he had been a newly appointed inspector in the Metropolitan CID and was surprised to see how little he had changed ; time , marriage , removal from London , promotion , had left no apparent mark on him . |
| 14 | I have worked for him for more than three years and have come to admire him both as a doctor and a man . |
| 15 | Diana vented all the grievances which had been welling up inside her for more than ten years . |
| 16 | He took care never to stay with her for more than twenty minutes , obeying both the spirit and the letter of Anthony 's orders , but he tried to give her a clear account of the eight days Kesselring had spent in the witness box , watching her face all the time for signs of boredom or exhaustion . |
| 17 | Having known her for less than two months , he was not yet confident of any strong hold on her affections , despite the fact that she seemed quite willing to accept his embraces and kisses . |
| 18 | Nails concentrated hard and found the stride about once in every two circles , but could not keep with it for more than two or three strides before he lost his balance and came down while Midnight was coming up . |
| 19 | He had been working on it for more than ten years . |
| 20 | If you imagine it for more than two or three minutes , you start crying . ’ |
| 21 | This was encouraged by the traditional view of a skilled man as one who learned his trade by the age of 21 and thereafter practised it for more than forty years until he retired at 65 . |
| 22 | You look at Lauren Hutton , who 's been doing it for more than 20 years . |
| 23 | Since the approach was fairly new to all interviewed ( none had been operating it for more than nine months ) the responses may have more to do with expectations than experience , but nevertheless they serve to sketch out the potential of the care programme approach to affect every aspect of mental health care , for good or ill . |
| 24 | Of those firms which did possess such a strategy , a quarter had not reviewed it for more than two years , making it only mildly effective . |
| 25 | There appears to be no significant risk to women who take it for less than five years but the risk does increase slightly between five and ten years , and taking it for more than 15 years gives a higher risk still . |
| 26 | ‘ No , ’ Barry concluded , ‘ there 's no way to do it for less than six hundred dollars . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ If you want to go swimming you can do it for less than £800 a day . |
| 28 | If the pen 's barrel is not cracked and the lever is capable of movement then it should be possible to repair it for less than twenty pounds . |
| 29 | Ken 's last wish was that his coffin should be carried by six Athletico players but I could not find a single one of the bastards who would do it for less than fifty quid . |
| 30 | He had bought it for less than seventeen thousand and had spent five thousand on it to date , expecting to sell it for at least forty . |