Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Proceedings invariably dragged on for eighteen months . |
| 2 | Immigration laws inherited from the former East German state , which were due to expire on January 1st , are being allowed to carry on for Soviet Jews arriving in Berlin . |
| 3 | Of the total 79 referrals received between October 1987 and March 1988 , the NSPCC team dealt with 50 cases alone , jointly investigated one with social services department staff and referred the remainder on for various reasons for example , secondary task work . |
| 4 | Like all long-term coughers he had developed a noise-reducing technique , and all that could be heard was a chuck-chuck-chuck sound that would go on for long minutes at a time , gradually winding down like a clockwork drummer until every scrap of air was squeezed out of his poor concrete lungs . |
| 5 | Food , of course , remains a topic of passionate concern — the focus of minor complaints and disagreements which rumble on for long periods — and outbursts of contentment which are extremely short-lived . |
| 6 | Kitchen floors need to be tough enough to withstand all sorts of spills , grease and damp , comfortable enough to stand on for long periods , and handsome to look at . |
| 7 | And friendship with Clan Diarmaid , that we 've been fighting off and on for five generations ! |
| 8 | Let him go ’ , so the interpreter sat down and M. Ver carried on for five minutes more . |
| 9 | Just leave lotion on for five minutes . |
| 10 | Efforts to procure his extradition , which have been going on for five years , and which seemed for a time to have been successful , have now been thwarted , at least for the moment . |
| 11 | Is he aware that the negotiations have been going on for five years , that we must have a replacement for the multi-fibre arrangement that will enable our textiles to penetrate the markets of countries which do not allow any textiles in and those with tariffs of 200 per cent. , and that even the United States has a tariff of 36 per cent . |
| 12 | The conflict has already dragged on for five years ; thousands have died . |
| 13 | ‘ Got to observe strict ARP , you see , Miss , though here we are gettin' on for five months of war and not a peep out of a Jerry plane . |
| 14 | Negotiations had been going on for 17 months before the strike . |
| 15 | The lights are on for twelve hours a day , and filtration is by two Fluval 4s . |
| 16 | Yeah the other the other factor is now that that data is getting on for twelve months old |
| 17 | ‘ You hung on for twelve years . ’ |
| 18 | I now leave the lights on for eight hours a day . |
| 19 | That did not settle the matter , which ran on for eight years more , long after Ramsey left the diocese of Durham . |
| 20 | ‘ And these unveilings have been going on for eight years ? |
| 21 | It was not that unpleasant memories were evoked , for these were always with him , his existence was inseparable from that old bitterness , but that a sight of the house , even the glimpse of a photograph , revived the precise feelings he had had — why , it must be getting on for eleven years ago . |
| 22 | It must be getting on for eleven years now since … ’ |
| 23 | It also goes on for bloody ages . |
| 24 | as if nothing had happened , the Valkyrie flew on for sixteen seconds . |
| 25 | The war between England and Spain went on for sixteen years after the defeat of the Armada , with a good deal of the English effort being undertaken by private ventures like Drake 's ( though they were easier to acknowledge once war had begun officially ) . |
| 26 | In the illustration the trial phase is turned on for fixed times and the rate of current rise , and corresponding rotor position , is deduced from the current level attained at the end of the trial . |
| 27 | Women 's work in sweated trades ( defined with some difficulty by a Select Committee on the subject in 1890 as work carried on for inadequate wages and for excessive hours in insanitary conditions ) , was also opposed because of the threat it posed to motherhood and the rearing of an imperial race . |
| 28 | This went on for 13 months until my parents realised that I needed medical attention . |
| 29 | Describing the American feature film , The Last Temptation of Christ , to which he awarded a certificate , as a challenging religious film he said that acontroversial scene : ‘ It indicated that Christ had sex , but it did not go on for 14 minutes . ’ |
| 30 | These went on for fifteen minutes , again under the hard gaze of Sister Mary . |