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 | The number unemployed for more than six months has doubled in the past year . |
| 19 | Our aim is to ensure that anyone who is unemployed for more than six months has a choice of job experience or training . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It appears that the unemployed are segmented into two groups each of which is accorded different treatment : those who have been unemployed for more than six months and those who have not . |
| 23 | Roger : Yes , in the ES , East Kent will be running a pilot of people who have been unemployed for more than two years . |
| 24 | In the TEC network , Tyneside TEC will run a pilot for people unemployed for more than two years , and Devon and Cornwall TEC will run one for those out of work for more than four years . |
| 25 | The number of Scots unemployed for more than six months is 132,900 — an increase of 10,700 or 8.8 per cent , which represents half of the nation 's jobless total . |
| 26 | Those currently in receipt of Unemployment Benefit , in other words those who have been unemployed for less than one year , can reopen rights to a further year of unemployment benefit if they work in insured employment for at least eight weeks . |
| 27 | It was funny for awhile but the novelty soon wore off . |
| 28 | The building was in use for its original purpose until the early 1960s , but by the time it was acquired for conversion into dwellings in 1977 , it had lain empty for more than ten years and was decaying rapidly because the upper floors and roof covering of the mill had been destroyed in a fire . |
| 29 | Meanwhile John Arlott 's birthplace , Cemetery Lodge in Basingstoke , has been restored after standing empty for more than three years . |
| 30 | This was done , and a connection which had existed unbroken for more than four centuries was at an end . |