Example sentences of "[adv] for [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is partly because only a proportion of hinds conceive in a given year and individual stags rarely hold harems throughout the whole breeding season , and partly because few stags breed successfully for more than four years . |
| 2 | I 'm all right for now because I 've got no more washing . |
| 3 | I am delighted : it is an issue on which I have campaigned vigorously for more than two years . |
| 4 | The sales force is a problem they 've been working on for awhile and could be in a position to snap off in a few months . |
| 5 | Some unilateral plant closures can be expected , Campbell predicted — if the crisis goes on for long or gets worse . |
| 6 | I wished this could go on for ever but I realised that all too soon I would have to return . |
| 7 | It ca n't go on for ever because characters such as the Fat Slags ( right ) can only go on so long before the joke starts to wear thin . |
| 8 | Hospital appointments seemed to go on for ever and when I left for the Sahara , I forgot to cancel one of them . |
| 9 | She wanted it to go on for ever and ever ! |
| 10 | I suddenly had the sense that this was going to go on for ever and the conversation became an argument . |
| 11 | Our friend will carry on for ever and never return . ’ |
| 12 | so be aware that you do n't want to ramble on too long or this appointment could go on for ever and a day . |
| 13 | Going on for ever and ever . |
| 14 | Lunch-times can go on for ever if you have no friends and no one invites you to join in with what they are doing . |
| 15 | So while his empire teetered , Mr Bond sailed on for more than three days incom-municado . |
| 16 | Be aware of the time limit : no election campaign goes on for more than three or four weeks in the United Kingdom — be glad about that ! |
| 17 | But what 's the point of holding a meeting that goes on for more than twelve hours ? |
| 18 | Even professional tape-recorders after the war could not keep the quality high enough for more than two or three generations . |
| 19 | Enough for now that she held his hand . |
| 20 | What you do with it once you 've brought it to the surface is another matter : it is enough for now that you acknowledge it is there and begin to discover ways of getting at it . |
| 21 | He was wearing the leather shoes that had been only for best until they grew too small for his feet and now had to be worn for school . |
| 22 | Finally , it was suggested that widespread philosophical , political and economic beliefs serve to make the relative small amount of measured redistribution that appears to take place the order not only for today but for tomorrow as well . |
| 23 | As he knows , I must decide whether to give this matter precedent over the business set down for today or for tomorrow . |
| 24 | As he knows , I have to decide whether his application comes within the Standing Order and , if so , whether a debate should be granted which would take precedence over the business set down for today or tomorrow . |
| 25 | They had stood so for more than two hundred and forty years now , victims of the great Ko Ming purges of the 1960s , their ruin becoming , with time , a natural thing — part of the bleak and melancholy landscape that surrounded them . |
| 26 | According to Gates , in comments reported in PC Week , large corporate customers looking to upgrade from Windows 3 to NT will be able to do so for less than $100 per desktop — the upgrade price for Windows users will be $300 , which translates to $180 ‘ on the street ’ and less than ‘ $100 per system ’ after deep volume discounts , Gates told a meeting of the Corporate Association of Microcomputer Professionals in Chicago . |
| 27 | Bill Gates has firmed up prices for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system , but the first ships date has moved off into the future again , and ‘ no later than ’ August 1 is the new target : according to Gates , in comments reported in PC Week , large corporate customers looking to upgrade from Windows 3 to NT will be able to do so for less than $100 per desktop — the upgrade price for Windows users will be $300 , which translates to $180 ‘ on the street ’ and less than ‘ $100 per system ’ after deep volume discounts , Gates told a meeting of the Corporate Association of Microcomputer Professionals in Chicago ; OS/2 users will be offered ‘ extremely low prices ; ’ NT 's suggested retail price for new — desktop — users will be $500 ; more bad news is that memory requirements are continuing to soar — Gates last week recommended that NT users install 16Mb on their desktop machines , even though the documentation may specify 12Mb — and no more than about 10% of 80486 machines have 16Mb ; servers could require more than 16Mb , he added ; initial NT buyers will need to have specific applications in mind for it — ‘ If you do n't know why you want NT , you probably do n't want NT , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Milwall just caught sleeping for a moment can get a good ball in for here and Hendry it 's an own goal . |
| 29 | ( A migrant is one intending to stay out or in for more than 12 months . ) |
| 30 | Only once did we have leave together for more than forty-eight hours back in Edinburgh . |