Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 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 .
7 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 .
8 I have worked for him for more than three years and have come to admire him both as a doctor and a man .
9 Diana vented all the grievances which had been welling up inside her for more than ten years .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 He had been working on it for more than ten years .
14 If you imagine it for more than two or three minutes , you start crying . ’
15 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 .
16 You look at Lauren Hutton , who 's been doing it for more than 20 years .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 ‘ No , ’ Barry concluded , ‘ there 's no way to do it for less than six hundred dollars . ’
21 ‘ If you want to go swimming you can do it for less than £800 a day .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 In that case the buyer of a new Nissan car had had it for less than three weeks and had made two or three short journeys in it for the purpose of trying it out , before the engine seized up because of a latent manufacturing fault .
26 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 .
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