Example sentences of "[verb] for itself [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second , or spare rod , is never left to fish for itself for more than a couple of minutes . |
| 2 | such a programme would pay for itself within five years , and save fuel worth something like £2800 million a year . |
| 3 | SAAB had estimated the costs and benefits of the line-out system and had calculated that the system would pay for itself within four years , with more than half of the savings coming from the increased production flexibility of the system and another 25 per cent coming from reduced labour turnover and absenteeism . |
| 4 | The best ( rated 5 ) will pay for itself in less than a year , while the least cost-effective ( rate 0 ) is worth doing only if you are planning to carry out other major renovation work at the same time . |
| 5 | A rule of thumb is that investment in energy efficiency is expected to pay for itself in two years . |
| 6 | Last year , a passive solar collector on a house would have been expected to pay for itself in 12 to 15 years . |
| 7 | A 6m zone stops 90% of walked in dirt , reducing maintenance costs of the floor covering beyond the Coral by 50% and the Coral Clean-off-Zone pays for itself in 6 months . |
| 8 | At the St Pierre Park it is estimated that the oven system will have paid for itself inside 18 months . |
| 9 | In terms of cost effectiveness , a single Ventura/VT600 installation applied to Classical Music should have paid for itself in eight months — costed against the savings in typesetting . |
| 10 | But it has more than paid for itself in improved factory efficiency , said Bob Pruitt , operations manager of Thatcher Tubes , Florence — part of Courtaulds Packaging . |
| 11 | Today , with funding for British Universities squeezed ever tighter by the recession and thirteen years of an unsympathetic Conservative government , the Warburg is being forced to fend for itself in large measure . |