Example sentences of "[noun prp] for [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Phil Richardson , who died at King 's Norton , Birmingham on April 18 , aged 64 , was a stalwart of Moseley Ashfield for more than 25 years after the Second World War . |
| 2 | And socialist governments had worked well in West Germany for more than 10 years . |
| 3 | The Genc family , like the one in Mölln , had lived in Germany for more than 20 years . |
| 4 | Tidal experts agreed that the body could not have been off Pilsey Island for more than 24 hours . |
| 5 | TOPLESS model turned singer Sam Fox is suing her father Patrick for more than £1 million . |
| 6 | You 'll just have to sweet-talk your new chum , Old Red , into requesting the Office to leave you in Marcus for more than one night . ’ |
| 7 | Galal , from Egypt , has fetched and carried goods round Le Sentier for more than three years . |
| 8 | Anthony Bowles , 61 , known as Ant to his friends , was a familiar face in London 's West End for more than 25 years . |
| 9 | He warned that the project would change the character of the West End for ever and lead to a ribbon of development between Darlington and Croft . |
| 10 | Some of its members interpreted the result as showing that voters preferred a broad movement such as the Forum to the sort of disciplined party that had misruled Czechoslovakia for more than 40 years . |
| 11 | He had also been a close friend and political ally of Keating for more than 20 years , and had been influential in engineering Keating 's successful bid for the leadership in December 1991 [ see pp. 38675-76 ] . |
| 12 | DEWHIRST , the clothing and toiletries maker that relies on Marks & Spencer for more than 80 p.c. of its sales , increased profits from £3m to £4.1m last year on turnover up 7 p.c. at £130m . |
| 13 | In the Squidgy tapes , the Princess talked fondly of Mara , who has run the restaurant with her husband Lorenzo Berni for more than two decades . |
| 14 | The King was on a royal throne near the entrance , and the two Bishops of Durham and Ely stood at his feet A good omen had encouraged Hugh for just as he reached the chapel steps he heard the choir in full voice chanting the words " Hail renowned bishop of Christ " . |
| 15 | If your employee is sick during the last eight weeks before leaving and you have paid SSP for more than three days you have to fill in a Leaver 's statement SSP(L) . |
| 16 | The group doubled the number of passengers it carried last year to 1.65m and should perform even better this year following the purchase in September of Pickfords Travel from NFC for more than £16m . |
| 17 | They 've been in England for less than 12 hours but Janos Bunta and his Romanian friends are already up to their elbows in flour and pastry . |
| 18 | The Open School has been operating in Johannesburg for more than 20 years . |
| 19 | Sir Patrick Mayhew , the new Northern Ireland Secretary , said in Belfast yesterday that people in Britain would have to face terrorist attacks with the same resilience , stoicism and bravery shown by the people of Northern Ireland for more than 20 years . |
| 20 | I add my voice to the condemnation of the activity of the Provisional IRA which has pertained in Northern Ireland for more than 20 years and which in this case was clearly sectarian as it killed seven Protestant workers . |
| 21 | Surprisingly this is the first full-length biography of Franklin for more than 40 years , and Ronald Clark 's is particularly valuable because it puts the subject in historical context . |
| 22 | On 22 May 1807 he joined the Royal Naval College in Portsmouth for a period of eighteen months after which , as a midshipman , he served in Lavinia in the Mediterranean and north Atlantic for more than three years . |
| 23 | If the object , however , has been in the UK for more than fifty years , the so-called Waverley procedure is triggered also in order to establish whether it is a national treasure . |
| 24 | Nahum was upstairs with Anna for more than two hours . |
| 25 | ‘ The blokes prefer the night watch — they do n't get mucked about so much , ’ says Senior Hand Ted Temple , who has served at Soho for more than 20 years . |
| 26 | The Institution of Civil Engineers said in evidence to the Lords : ‘ The fact that there has been no major disaster in the United Kingdom for more than 50 years should not be allowed to obscure the ever-increasing danger in the future . |
| 27 | The case had been under way in Ohio for more than two years and was now ready for trial . |
| 28 | He told the court that he had known Paula for more than 25 years and married her to Eddie at his church in Moreton . |
| 29 | He told the court that he had known Paula for more than 25 years and married her to Eddie at his church in Moreton . |
| 30 | Tin had been sold by Shearson to Maclaine for more than £9,000 a tonne but prices nosedived after the International Tin Council market support pact collapsed . |