Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] for [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been my home for more than twenty years . |
| 2 | She kept my home for more than twenty years , and she taught my daughters everything she knew . |
| 3 | About half of the patients had been waiting for their notes for less than six weeks , but 19 had been waiting for over six months , 14 for over a year , and six for over two years . |
| 4 | This will mean an immediate reduction in premium for those members who have not made claims under their policies for more than 12 months with effect from their renewal date on and after 1st July next . |
| 5 | Mr Tavernor has been fighting their case for more than forty years . |
| 6 | She did not , thought Henry bitterly , as he dragged himself out of bed and weaved his way to the bathroom over Elinor 's discarded knickers , go to classes in being thin , or classes designed to allow the participants to hold one idea in their heads for more than five minutes . |
| 7 | Many looked on it as a long-term investment. , with over a quarter planning to hold on to their savings for more than 10 years . |
| 8 | It is offering a special 4.99% two-year mortgage on leasehold properties that have been on its books for more than six months . |
| 9 | As part of its further downsizing under its Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganisation plan ( CI No 2,129 ) , Wang Laboratories Inc is to sell its printed circuit board plant in Methuen , Massachusetts to its management for less than $5m cash . |
| 10 | And this would reveal that the Covenant 's structure was by nature essentially Western , a product of European parliamentary equality grafted on to a newly independent nation whose very existence had been contested by more than half its population for more than two decades . |
| 11 | It gave her meat for now and to smoke for the winter , and a jacket , stinking but warm . |
| 12 | At the opening of the Berkeley Center , German Chancellor Helmut Kohl noted , ‘ Germany owes the recovery of its unity to the untiring commitments of America and its presidents for more than four decades ’ . |
| 13 | Because Hector 's dolphins can not hold their breath for long and dives rarely exceed 2 minutes ( compared with up to 8 minutes for a bottlenose dolphin ) , entanglement in a set-net is usually fatal . |
| 14 | at Portobello branch you see , urging the national executive to take immediate action in support of their claim for so and so . |
| 15 | In reality they are too powerful to be challenged head on , although the thrift horrors did at least prompt the first congressional hearing into their finances for more than 30 years . |
| 16 | Caroline would give me hell for evermore if she thought I 'd ill-treated her best friend . |
| 17 | According to Martin Newland 's article in The Daily Telegraph today , Mr. Brown turned his back on his car for less than one minute . |
| 18 | It comes as no surprise to learn that it took director Peter Greenaway a very long time to find a film company that would consider his script for more than 30 seconds . |
| 19 | A British audience will not have seen his work for more than twenty years , although he was included by his earlier art in the Tate Gallery 's ‘ St Ives ’ exhibition of 1985 , and the new works , delicately constructed and monochromatic in colour , will be a happy surprise . |
| 20 | With the publication of the fifth and final volume of his catalogue of Monet 's life and art , Daniel Wildenstein and his family foundation , now to be known as the Wildenstein Institute , has brought to completion the mighty project which has occupied his attention for more than fifty years . |
| 21 | Usually it is the husband who is committed to his career and to increasing his earning capacity , and who is dependent upon his wife for most if not all of the child care and domestic responsibilities , organization , routine , style and comfort . |
| 22 | Seventy-five year old Marcel Callow has been practising his art for more than fifty years . |
| 23 | After all , he did go back to that church , presumably to ask his God for further and better instructions . ’ |
| 24 | She supposed she was perfectly entitled to do that , since she had been his secretary for more than ten years , but for some odd reason it had still made her nerve-ends prickle antagonistically when Eleanor had said his name . |
| 25 | It means using his hands for more than one job . |
| 26 | He took his seat in the House in February 1833 , but did not enjoy his position for long as , in the following month , he caught a chill and died in London 28 March 1833 . |
| 27 | Although severely wounded in the chest and under continuous fire , with the greatest fortitude , he stood by his gun for more than 15 minutes . |
| 28 | The only problem is knowing where to begin and a good place to start is at one of the best known fishing hotels in the north , Scourie Hotel , owned and managed by Ian Hay and his family for more than thirty years . |
| 29 | Blood tests confirmed he had the disease in December 1987 but he kept the tragic secret from his family for more than three years . |
| 30 | He neglected his family for more than two years when he became obsessed with his studies on the secret of life , despite the advice of a professor called Krempe . |