Example sentences of "[adv] for a good [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry Dodson and his wife are well versed in the language of flowers , and have made wedding bouquets professionally for a good long time : they made the beautiful posies for the Victorian wedding in the forthcoming television series The Victorian Flower Garden . |
| 2 | If you can swallow the unlikely nature of the killer 's powers , then you are in for a good rough ride down a murky road . |
| 3 | Not in those days , not for a good Catholic girl like Mary Moxton , who would only lapse so far , and abortion was a lot further . |
| 4 | ‘ Come now , boy , ’ his father said , finally pulling his eldest son away , but not for a good half minute . |
| 5 | They were but it , well it was an event , a big event in , in the , among the younger people anyway in Brooks in Willenhall then and er it was really lovely , really lovely I forget if we had to pay to go in , but er we had er we saved up for a good few weeks before , so that we would have some money to spend at the Wakes it was one of the an event of the year then , but erm I used to like Willenhall Wakes and er I used to go dancing a lot well I was allowed to go dancing cos I 've always loved singing and dancing you see and er I was allowed but I had to be home before my father got home , but I was n't always . |
| 6 | When Bernard came out of hospital he did not walk very well for a good long time . |
| 7 | ‘ Nobody 's been past here for a good fifteen minutes , ’ said Malpass suddenly . |
| 8 | But in South Africa today , and surely for a good many years to come , there are also additional considerations that demand from a large company actions and policies that go beyond its immediate business interests and seek to ameliorate the excessive social and economic imbalances that have developed in our society . |
| 9 | She was in there for a good five minutes crashing around and swearing occasionally . |
| 10 | From then onwards , indeed for a good many years , nothing more appears to have been done on the Coniston Manor . |