Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yeah that only got to count for four , that 's gon na go one , two , three , four |
| 2 | If you can not find a language helper who only wants to work for one hour a day , try hiring someone to do gardening or housework for you on a more fulltime basis and then use that person also as a language helper until you reach the stage where you can cope with a fulltime language helper . |
| 3 | So we do three so we only get paid for thirty nine hours a week instead of forty . |
| 4 | Aid workers from the Bosnia Aid Committee of Oxford had apparently gone missing for 4 days in the war zone . |
| 5 | We only had to wait for five minutes for the first boooooom … and a second … and a third . |
| 6 | ‘ Ian Wright could be in the National Basketball Association , he did so much trash talking for 45 minutes , ’ Meola said . |
| 7 | The main thrust was to consolidate the company 's $53m debt into a low interest syndicated loan and a bond that would not begin to mature for two and a half years . |
| 8 | The best of the autograph collectors would not have accepted for one minute that their pursuit was the poor relation of manuscript collecting proper . |
| 9 | She devoured it , not having eaten for twenty-four hours , and then stayed on her cot until Duncan and Myeloski arrived . |
| 10 | In his last Test at Sydney in 1984–5 , having wrapped up the series with three victories in the first three games and not having lost for 27 Tests since 1981–2 , his team suddenly collapsed to an innings defeat , the architects of which were Bob Holland and Murray Bennett — spinners both . |
| 11 | A desert , Menzies thought , a wilderness where you might just manage to survive for forty days and forty nights , especially if there was an angel at hand to minister to you . |
| 12 | Or are you saying that the level of provision the County Council propose for employment is excessive bearing in mind that they do not propose to cater for one hundred percent migration ? |
| 13 | Forbes thus had to wait for fifteen years or so before the coveted post came up ; during this time Jameson sometimes teetered but always recovered , and his courses and museum fell behind the times . |
| 14 | The young bird will wander the ocean and probably not return to breed for five years . |
| 15 | A small advert was placed in the D and S Times and Wilgro 's telephone hardly stopped ringing for two weeks . |
| 16 | These may be trying times for estate agents but Croome Court 's still expected to go for one and a half million pounds |
| 17 | The party constitution was also amended to allow for two deputy secretaries-general ( one with responsibility for Zanzibar , the other for the mainland ) . |
| 18 | On May 1 a Croat was shot dead in the mainly Serbian village of Brsadin ( near Vukovar ) , and on May 2 shooting began when a group of Croatian policemen entered Borovo Selo near Vukovar to look for three missing colleagues . |
| 19 | Erm I know the Conversatives have also has gone for one three and not for two . |
| 20 | We had one free day each week — any one of our choice — and we could also elect to work for twelve days consecutively and then have two days off . |
| 21 | Had he come up on the bus with us from Bishop Auckland to Willington , we 'd probably have asked for one and a half . |
| 22 | Had he spotted it he would probably have opted for 18 ... |
| 23 | 3Com has also announced pricing for three new members of the EtherLink III Parallel Tasking family of adaptors . |
| 24 | Alcohol has edged down from 80 to 78 per mille , but leisure services have risen from 32 per mille to 62 , entirely as a result of the inclusion for the first time of foreign holidays , which are now deemed to account for 30 per mille ( 3 per cent ) of the cost of living . |
| 25 | ( IRAS , incidentally , is now expected to last for 11 months , until Boxing Day , with a 2 per cent chance of surviving into 1984 . ) |
| 26 | Originally scheduled to run for 15 years , the subsidy period was reduced to eight years after objections from the European Commission , which was particularly concerned over long-term support for the nuclear industry . |
| 27 | ‘ The sort I could really have gone for twenty years ago . ’ |
| 28 | For the USSR much will depend , ultimately , on world oil prices , on world gas prices and on just how much foreign currency the USSR needs if energy exports really do account for 60 to 80 per cent of hard currency earnings . |
| 29 | Bull has now failed to score for seven games but Turner said : ‘ There is not a striker in the country who has not been through that sort of spell . ’ |
| 30 | I went off him a lot when he made out he was really eager to get to Blackburn and ‘ only really wanted to play for one club ’ , but you ca n't really blame him for wanting to be filthy rich . |