Example sentences of "[pron] for [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he had finished , she said nothing for more than a minute , but continued to stare at him , as if still seeking the assurance she had hoped his account would supply . |
| 2 | To some extent he was lucky : at the beginning of his reign he encountered a pope , Gregory X , whom he had already met in England in the 1260s and on crusade in 1272–4 ; at the end of his reign Edward had to deal with a pope , Clement V , who had been his subject and his servant in Bordeaux ; in the interval between these two popes there were ten others , but nine of these together occupied the papal throne for barely fifteen years , five of them for less than a year each , two for four years apiece , one for nearly three , and one for two only . |
| 3 | ‘ Let's hope this is the last chapter for them — it has been hanging over them for more than a year — and they can now start to rebuild their lives . ’ |
| 4 | Ironically the adjoining mills , which for more than a century provided employment for almost the entire village and sup-plemented the picture now provided by the museum , were abruptly shut down in 1988 : bought up by a large firm , the premises were paid an afternoon visit by a director who announced imminent closure and drove off . |
| 5 | The government said that it was clear that Mr Athulathmudali was yet another victim of the Tigers , who for more than a decade have been fighting for a separate Tamil state on the island . |
| 6 | But nothing prepares you for four and a half hours climbing up crumbling ice . |
| 7 | The second , or spare rod , is never left to fish for itself for more than a couple of minutes . |
| 8 | At most I get just enough to wet the bottom of the collection cup , and sometimes none for more than a week . |
| 9 | Only three housewives had paid domestic help at the time of the interview : two for six hours a week and one for five and a half hours a fortnight . |
| 10 | The Judge held that George was responsible for instigating the crime and jailed him for four and a half years . |
| 11 | ‘ We have watched him for three and a half years and see nothing . |
| 12 | Jailing him for three and a half years Judge Richard Lowry described his behaviour as a dreadful crime . |
| 13 | She had always been too conscientious , never spared herself , been afraid to leave him for longer than a day , she deserved a rest , a holiday . |
| 14 | She remembered how she had n't been allowed to hold him for more than a moment before he had to go back behind the bars of his crib . |
| 15 | This time the defeat of his hopes did n't crush him for more than a few days . |
| 16 | ‘ Why were n't you able to keep him for more than a few months ? ’ |
| 17 | Nobody 's heard from him for more than a year . |
| 18 | Coleridge awoke , he said , retaining ‘ a distinct recollection of the whole ’ , and was eagerly committing the poem to writing when he was called out by a person on business from Porlock who detained him for more than an hour . |
| 19 | I 've been seeing her for 3 and a half years . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been taking it for two and a half years . |
| 21 | The maltote too thus became a regular impost , though the commons were not prepared to grant it for more than a year or two at a time for fear of losing control over it and to prevent the king from reviving the monopolistic schemes for exploiting the producers which they had struggled against between 1336 and 1351 . |
| 22 | With such a clear need to understand power , why has it , until recently , been avoided by managerial researchers , especially when sociologists have been analysing it for more than a century ? |
| 23 | Besides , he 'd never be able to sustain it for more than a minute or two . |
| 24 | If they 've had it for more than a month , encourage them to get out for some fresh air but not too much vigorous exercise . |
| 25 | For space close to the king was limited , and few occupied it for more than a decade or so , partly through accidents of mortality , partly through a career-structure in which the holding of high office in the royal household was often the prelude to a provincial post , but most of all through the play of faction around the king . |
| 26 | After I come back to take over the club again , you wo n't be in it for more than a week or two at a time . ’ |
| 27 | We have been planning it for more than a year . |
| 28 | Rewarded with a seat on the Privy Council , he held it for less than a month , dying of apoplexy 20 July 1675 . |
| 29 | I 've been restraining myself for six and a half years ! |
| 30 | No amount of persuasion would induce her to stay with us for more than a few days before she 'd vanish again to pursue her old habits , and on New Year 's Day 1967 , the police called for the last time . |