Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] for as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sixty next year but I 'd like to carry on for as long as possible . ’ |
| 2 | A stranger entered the bidding and soon gave the impression that he was determined to carry on for as long as was required to obtain the Baron . |
| 3 | ‘ This is the life I 've been trained for and I want to carry on for as long as possible . |
| 4 | Nevertheless the dollar was the principal reserve asset , and was likely to remain so for as long as the rest of the world accepted dollars and the monetary authorities of individual countries did not exert their option of exchanging dollars for gold . |
| 5 | When we were in port he let me off work and allowed me to go ashore for as long as I wanted : " After all , you 're here to see these places . |
| 6 | Apart from resleeving the cylinders around three decades ago , it has continued to function satisfactorily for as long as anyone cares to remember ! |
| 7 | While few serious historians have defended Communist excesses , some have argued that it was only the strategy in whose name they were committed that enabled the Republic to fight on for as long as it did . |
| 8 | Their supply base had been moved forward to Benghazi , which by that time had been captured by the British , and it was intended to stay out for as long as two months , mounting almost nightly raids . |