Example sentences of "[noun pl] run for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the long-term nature of the business ( many funds run for five years or more ) , there are comparatively few firms that have been going long enough to supply relevant data . |
| 2 | Because when some plays run for two weeks |
| 3 | First performed in 1946 this series of concerts ran for 37 years , earning an entry in the Guinness Book of Records . |
| 4 | They are the culminations of a whole life which , as Malcolm Johnson puts it , ‘ sculpted their present problems and concerns ’ ; a life itself built around many different ‘ life-threads ’ — education , work , marriage , children , hobbies , and so on — so that it is best understood , both in psychological and social terms , ‘ as a complex of strands running for different lengths of time throughout a life biography and moulding its individuality ’ . |
| 5 | As part of its plan to make the city centre cleaner and quieter , Oxfordshire County Council is paying for four electric buses to run for one year . |
| 6 | In general , long shots run for longer than close-ups because they contain more information for the eye to take in , and an average length might be ten to fifteen seconds . |
| 7 | Chatam will join stablemates Run For Free and Rushing Wild in the Gold Cup line-up next month . |
| 8 | In the report CNP calls for a number of proposals including — abandoning the 1998 deadline for renewable energy subsidies ; enabling grants to run for 15 years from the start of any one project ; issuing planning policy guidance on how to deal with planning applications , and giving encouragement to offshore wind generation which they claim could provide 50% of energy needs . |