Example sentences of "[vb -s] for [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Monkey Mia , on the remote western coastline of Australia , has for more than two decades been visited by wild dolphins . |
| 2 | IBM 's famous opinion survey is alive and well , running every second year , as it has for more than 20 years . |
| 3 | This is a city which lives for today while surrounded by its past . |
| 4 | The Teesside branch of the charity organises activity trips for more than 200 ‘ young people at risk ’ every year . |
| 5 | As my hon. Friend rightly pointed out , no patient in his area waits for more than two years and there has been a dramatic fall in the number of those who have to wait a year . |
| 6 | Mr Akehurst questions the wisdom of ensuring no-one waits for more than two years for hospital treatment a key Tory election pledge as this would result in people with low priority conditions holding up treatments for people with more urgent clinical needs . |
| 7 | Clawbacks will be triggered if the public applies for more than 1.75 times the near-24 per cent of the issue provisionally reserved for small buyers . |
| 8 | Oil accounts for more than 50% of the gross domestic product and more than 90% of export revenue . |
| 9 | But such projects and a successful geothermal programme which now accounts for more than 10% of Kenya 's electricity will do little to reduce the oil dependence which helps keep Kenya and many other African countries caught in an energy trap . |
| 10 | According to some estimates , ICI accounts for more than 20% of civilian R&D in the UK . |
| 11 | Production now accounts for more than five per cent of the national pig kill . |
| 12 | That managed competition may increase in time but it is stretching credibility a long way to suggest that a company that accounts for more than 96 per cent . |
| 13 | This means , in a year , car crime accounts for more than five million pounds in Milton Keynes . |
| 14 | It should be pointed out , however , that the results of the Forster and Olbrei experiment do not provide evidence for a constant effect of syntactic analysis since a correlation coefficient of.65 accounts for less than 40 per cent of the variance in processing times . |
| 15 | Rape , for example , accounts for less than 1.5 per cent . |
| 16 | A Nottinghamshire Day Centre which caters for more than a hundred mentally handicapped people is facing closure . |
| 17 | This complex and beautiful structure seldom lasts for more than one night . |
| 18 | BI The name of the mythical northern cockerel ; a reverie that lasts for more than twenty ( Earth ) years |
| 19 | Income Support is not available to anyone who works for more than 24 hours a week . |