Example sentences of "[noun sg] for [adv] a " in BNC.
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1 | Thus , a story which for one reason had been meaningful to her as a young child provided guidance for her at adolescence for quite a different reason . |
2 | There is therefore opportunity for only a trickle of legislation from this source and , for reasons stated below , even less than that flows . |
3 | Let's continue the story for just a moment in a ridiculous way . |
4 | Moszkowicz added : ‘ I served on the Darlington board for about a year because I misread Football League rules . |
5 | really a continuous , strongish wind to blow in one direction for quite a few hours . |
6 | ‘ See here , ’ said the doctor doubtfully , ‘ it is n't usual for a man to walk into an empty house at four in the morning and come out with another man 's cheque for nearly a hundred pounds . ’ |
7 | If the right hon. Gentleman would study recent CBI surveys he would see that domestic and export orders are rising , that export orders are at their highest level for over a year and that there is confirmation that business conditions are beginning to improve in line with confidence . |
8 | Unemployment has fallen to its lowest level for almost a year . |
9 | The problems result from long-term exposure , so families who change homes every few years may not suffer because they are exposed to levels above the action level for only a short time . |
10 | The adventure ties up a computer for quite a long time . |
11 | I 've been into this look for quite a while now , I know the rules . |
12 | Big undertakings like Sheffield and Worth only required twenty or thirty men each , and of course for just a few weeks at a time . |
13 | And of course for quite a while we were from . |
14 | Encore has been shipping Multimax superminis for over a year and has now sold ( and shipped ) two to the OSF 's development lab in Boston . |
15 | A single kiln , for instance , probably implies a potter 's presence for only a short period in the life of a settlement some may even have been itinerant or at best semi-residential , moving on once local demand had been satisfied . |
16 | A specialist in seventeenth-century Dutch art , he taught at Columbia University for nearly a decade . |
17 | Steam on the kitchen window cuts off the railway lines , making the tiny kitchen for once a friendly place . |
18 | I 've just given the whole of life a miss for nearly a year , all because of bloody Adrian . |
19 | I 've been working with the deaf-aid for over a week , for God 's sake , and I realised how much I rely on it . |
20 | Hong Kong has been hanging in suspense for almost a fortnight over if Mr Patten would drop a self-imposed deadline for publication at the end of February so that talks with China could resume . |
21 | Even work experience for just a fortnight — such as an Earthwatch project — is worthwhile . |
22 | When the tide springs up the shore the furthest , it also recedes the furthest — uncovering pools which may be accessible by foot for only a few hours each year . |
23 | He had been a share salesman for just a week and a half , and the deal put £200 in his pocket . |
24 | MANSUR MUHAMMAD AHMED RAJIH : a 34-year-old writer and poet , he was held without charge or trial for over a year before being sentenced to death in 1984 after an unfair trial on false criminal charges . |
25 | Those projects observed had been in progress for over a year and most had established a good opening strategy as might be expected from their ability to identify schools with good potential for change . |
26 | As a result , it was out of action for over a year . |
27 | Almost before he got used to wearing the famous blue and white , Agnew suffered an injury which put him on crutches and out of action for virtually a season . |
28 | Such omission is completely in sympathy with the trend in physical geography for nearly a century after Man and Nature . |
29 | Whereas most large mammals can survive no more than 14 per cent water loss , the camel can survive an amazing 30 per cent loss for over a week quite easily . |
30 | the opera by Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli ( 1752–1837 ) , Giulietta e Romeo , first performed at La Scala , Milan , in 1796 , and which remained popular all over the continent for almost a century . |