Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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1 | There were now , albeit only for a minority , alternatives to invisibility . |
2 | The pomp of Parks , Thompson and Dexter must seem further away than ever for a club that has now failed to progress beyond the group stages in 12 of the 21 Benson & Hedges Cup . |
3 | said there had probably never been a better time than now for a private company or public body to carry out a property audit . |
4 | The politician is the organ of society for having its cake and eating it , for escaping , if only for a moment , if only through a form of art — art is , after all , a means of escape — from the grimness of reality , from this grim fact that you ca n't have the cake and eat it , that you ca n't have public expenditure increased in excess of the rate of increase of the national product , unless private claims are correspondingly surrendered . |
5 | Once in the hides , sentries had been posted to protect the company positions , and many of the men took the opportunity to get some rest , if only for a few minutes . |
6 | We men , we know not what loftiness we might reach if only for a few small hours we could by carefulness of life , morally and physically so exact ourselves that scarce any utmost purity of air were too perfect for us . |
7 | Mungo could not explain why but he felt a sense of release at being out of the village , if only for a short time . |
8 | Some diets are not successful at all but some are , even if only for a short time . |
9 | When the slings and arrows of outrageous everyday life buffet our heads , we escape to Assynt , even if only for a long weekend , and always return refreshed , perspective regained . |
10 | If a killer thinks , even if only for a split second , that it is face to face with an owl or an eagle , it is very likely to back away and this may give the harmless bluffer enough time to escape . |
11 | These days the ladies will ride if only for a few hundred yards . |
12 | The boy was almost sure to have been home at intervals , if only for a change of clothing . |
13 | His new civility did not last , but , as Daisy Yates remarked one day in the following week , it had been pleasant not to have such a right little God Almighty in Cas. , if only for a short time . |
14 | Well , of course this option must be open , but the needs of the women who choose to stay at home , if only for a short time , can not be ignored . |
15 | It is good that we can walk into that world again , even if only for a brief interlude . |
16 | Despite this demonstration of his habitual need for normal sleep , even if only for a few hours a night , this same individual appeared on television a few years later , again claiming never to sleep . |
17 | Poetry 's ability to cast things in a kind of temporary order , to defy the destabilising effects of time , if only for a moment , will be a recurrent theme of this chapter . |
18 | Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all . |
19 | She wished she 'd brought something to do that would take her mind off her anxiety if only for a moment . |
20 | Always lock your car whenever you leave it , even if only for a moment . |
21 | We could do the same , but every piece of music must have its own shape , and many composers introduce new material at this point , even if only for a brief few bars . |
22 | Opportunities to relax and let her guard down , even if only for a few hours , had been rare . |
23 | Fifty years later they captured Delphi , if only for a brief period . |
24 | Surely , to get her out of that tedious place — if only for a time — must be a better answer . |
25 | She was hit by a wave of familiarity ; the sudden realisation that this was the man with whom she had shared so much , if only for a very short time . |
26 | It was a dramatic gesture , a revelation ; it put him in a position of power , if only for a moment , but he liked that position and his primacy had been denied in that group of irreverents . |
27 | Everyone felt a desire to go out , even if only for a moment , to feel the pleasure of walking in a foreign city at night . |
28 | Stay , if only for a little while . ’ |
29 | Freedom , if only for a short time , and she would have a chance to speak to Rose , whom she had not seen since their evening out together up West . |
30 | Such a relief to be among the long , wet grass and blue , blue skies , to feel free and alive , to be alone with her thoughts , unfettered , if only for a while , from the frustrations and restraints of yesterday . |