Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I die , or if I disappear for more than three months , ’ the will began , ‘ I wish to leave everything I own to my dear friend Edward Hyde . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ That was the last thing I did for more than three years , ’ said Norman , who was a coppersmith at GEC in Manchester . |
| 3 | I 've scored two hundreds against Worcestershire this season , and the one in May , when I batted for more than four hours and helped save the match , gave more satisfaction than that one in 57 minutes . ’ |
| 4 | More than 40 per cent of the world population lives in China , India , Eastern Europe and South America , which account for less than 10 per cent of our sales today . |
| 5 | Will my right Hon. Friend confirm that the authority 's detailed proposals will be published before the summer , and will those proposals include advertising campaigns on tobacco and alcohol abuse , which account for more than 100,000 deaths a year in the United Kingdom ? |
| 6 | This is a city which lives for today while surrounded by its past . |
| 7 | A Nottinghamshire Day Centre which caters for more than a hundred mentally handicapped people is facing closure . |
| 8 | In 1694 he was returned to Parliament , beginning a Commons career which lasted for more than sixty years as MP for Carlisle 1694–1702 , Cumberland 1708–22 and 1727–55 , and Appleby 1723–7 . |
| 9 | Although chronic diarrhoea ( defined by them as greater than 21 days duration ) occurred most frequently in this age group , this amounted to only 6% of cases — that is , 94% had diarrhoea which lasted for less than 21 days . |
| 10 | While Damascus observers commented that most of the changes were within the context of a regular rotation of minor posts , one of the more significant changes was the appointment of Nadir Nabulsi , the chairman of Al-Furat Petroleum Company which accounted for more than 60 per cent of Syria 's crude oil production , as Oil and Mineral Resources Minister in place of Antonios Habib . |
| 11 | The city had a relatively ‘ open ’ society and was the goal of countless migrants , but , as at Leicester , it is difficult to find many examples of families which stayed for more than three generations . |
| 12 | The Waves beside them danced For oft when on my couch I lie |
| 13 | In the upshot , nothing happened for more than two years , a fate common , it would seem , to reports on aspects of further education , until July 1976 when , in response to a parliamentary question , the then Minister of State for Education and Science , Mr Gerald Fowler , announced that the DES would reject the Gann proposal for an autonomous validating body , in favour of handing over control of non-advanced vocational art and design courses to TEC and BEC . |
| 14 | True , giving him pride of place entails an insulting belittlement of her passionate romantic friendships with women ; not least the one she maintained for more than thirty years with Sue Gilbert , her dearest Other , and eventually — bitter blow — her sister-in-law . |
| 15 | I wo n't become your charity case because you discovered for once that I was n't lying . |
| 16 | ‘ The PDF ( Panamanian Defence Forces ) as an institution is rotten to the core , ’ argued Mr Alan Sabrosky , professor of international studies at Rhodes College in Memphis , who taught for more than five years at the Army War College . |
| 17 | In 5 of 8 patients who survived for more than one year without evidence of local recurrence , endoscopic ultrasound showed a characteristic hyperechoic pattern interpreted as radiation fibrosis . |
| 18 | Casual workers in these trades , who worked for more than one employer in a week , were to pay a whole week 's contribution for each employment . |
| 19 | Although there were 14 distinct distribution channels for computer products , none accounted for more than 27% of the market . |
| 20 | If you work for between eight and 16 hours you will have to have worked for the same employer for at least five years to be eligible , and if you work for less than eight hours a week , you 'll lose these rights altogether . |
| 21 | Income Support is not available to anyone who works for more than 24 hours a week . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I do n't know what we want for tonight but we might go down my sister 's this afternoon so we want something easy for when we come back . |
| 24 | And what are we looking for there and there ? |
| 25 | Once accomplished it left one spoiled for ever and forever incomplete , all integrity gone . |
| 26 | Young people from working-class backgrounds , for instance , are more likely to spend time with a boy/girl-friend whereas young people from G middle-class backgrounds continue to move around in mixed sex groups for a longer period , perhaps anticipating an extended period of dependence on parents as they head for further or higher education . |
| 27 | Yet they count for little when balanced against his blindness to the cultural ferment which was agitating educated Germany by the later decades of his reign and his ignorant contempt for most of the greatest German writers and scholars of the age . |
| 28 | But also there you can ministers because minis er churches they count for more than two years stop being central funds and therefore , if we had too many |
| 29 | The ancient servitor , who drove with a slack rein and a sublime disregard of the pot-holes , seemed to take it as a personal affront that Miss Kyte had kept him waiting for more than two hours . |
| 30 | Moreover , if the answer is knowledge of the patient over time , what of the 2.3% of general practitioners and 31.3% of specialists who carried out LAWER on patients whom they knew for less than one month ? |