Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may seem as if it has been with us forever , but the ubiquitous American Express chargecard has , in fact , only been around for 35 years . |
| 2 | But he had only been away for three days . |
| 3 | This team have only been together for less than a year and it is getting better all the time . |
| 4 | Auntie Mavis has only been out for five to ten minutes twice cos of her knee . |
| 5 | ‘ There may be benefits for us too — if we do n't get on with the new rector he may only be here for five years , ’ said Miss Duff . |
| 6 | ‘ We 'll only be away for four nights , ’ she explained to Constance . |
| 7 | Good fully booked till one thirty in the afternoon , so there 's , there 's no point , we 'll only be there for two hours . . |
| 8 | The two older girls had already begun boarding school , so were away for most of the time , and Charles was only three and easily amused by the nanny . |
| 9 | But enough 's enough for one night . |
| 10 | If the builders of this artificial paradise had not been around for several millennia — as Alex Bannen seemed to think — how come the flora and fauna had n't run riot and completely ruined the environment ? |
| 11 | It might not have been a very long missive , but it brought Aubrey into the room as if they had not been apart for two whole years . |
| 12 | Even such an exalted pedigree as this , though , has not been enough for some of Britain 's big stores . |
| 13 | ‘ Old Mr Fiddle has not been there for some time , Rose , ’ said Dagmar from the door . |
| 14 | The worst may soon be over for Australian wool farmers . |
| 15 | THE game could soon be up for some of the Beeb 's quiz shows . |
| 16 | It would thus be only for those films with generally low levels of subjective risk or few moving objects that subjects actually looked at the fixed information even in the recognition phase and were thus able to be biased by it . |
| 17 | Yeah but just phone up and just be on for more , more than a minute , you know , would n't be so bad but you start hanging about . |
| 18 | Children under supervision could be directed to such projects as appeared appropriate to their needs although the projects would not be exclusively for young offenders . |
| 19 | If those resources had been given three or four years ago , we would not have the long delays that lead to so much misery , and the small number of non-genuine asylum seekers would not be here for longer than we would all want . |
| 20 | In general the court should exercise its discretion to set aside a statutory demand if , but only if , it would not be just for those consequences to apply in the circumstances . |
| 21 | However , this event may not be enough for full induction of AP genes . |
| 22 | A reliable little bird tells this column that Frank may not be long for this world either . |
| 23 | Cook and Joan would not be down for another hour yet , so she made herself a cup of coffee on the gas stove . |
| 24 | He was away and would not be back for two weeks . |
| 25 | I mean I do n't know when he 's , he might not be in for another two or three hours , I do n't , I really do n't know . |
| 26 | Thanks to the new guidelines , it 's likely they 'll still be here for many centuries to come . |
| 27 | I 'll still be around for next World Cup : Nigel |
| 28 | The first rule is that outlay in total , private and public , must always be enough for full employment . |
| 29 | References in the work of Constantine Porphyrogenitus , written in the tenth century , indicate that they were settled in Dalmatia in his time and had probably been there for two hundred years . |
| 30 | It had probably been there for some time ! |