Example sentences of "[noun] for [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , Griffin et al found in 10% of their patients that oxygen saturation dropped below 90% for longer than a minute even when supplementary oxygen was used and only modest doses of sedative had been given . |
| 2 | Although I have been a member of the board for less than a year , and chairman but a few weeks , I believe I have now been accepted into the bosom of the Athletico family . |
| 3 | They had been moving steadily through a very thick part of the forest in which it was impossible to maintain a constant direction for more than a few paces . |
| 4 | Other nearby springs supplied Frogwell below the Town Hall and the conduit which ran from Springfield into the brewery for more than a century on the perhaps appropriate site of the new Health Centre . |
| 5 | Oh , that 's called a howler , that 's a howler , if you leave your handset off the hook for more than a minute , 25 seconds , or is it 60 I ca n't remember , for a length of time you get the howler . |
| 6 | Mr McDonald no longer drinks but has been an alcoholic for more than a decade . |
| 7 | Bruce Springsteen has been pulling in crowds for more than a decade . |
| 8 | Schools and their children have suffered change after change for more than a quarter of a century , especially since the Tories came to power . |
| 9 | Inflation is at its lowest level for three and a half years . |
| 10 | His family has been involved in braiding and ropework for more than a century , and four years ago he came to Newtonmore to set up a small , high quality production facility for climbing ropes . |
| 11 | The smaller the unit , the shorter should be the stay inside it — there are very few patients who need to be contained within a locked unit of this kind for more than a few days . |
| 12 | I ca n't hang around with anyone , if I hang around with anyone that 's a smackhead for more than a couple of days , then it 's going to be tempting , so I 've got to keep meself away from them . |
| 13 | She suffers from deterioration of the spine , but her family claims she was left sitting on a bed without any back support for three and a half hours . |
| 14 | The effect of Christian Democrat hegemony for four and a half decades has been the perpetual incumbency of a small circle of politicians . |
| 15 | ‘ The Cosmological Pictures ’ , which have been winding through West and East European cities for more than a year , arrive at the Tate Gallery , Liverpool , at the end of next month , and Gilbert & George will be pioneering in China with exhibitions in Shanghai and Peking next autumn . |
| 16 | ‘ It would be marvellous if The Committee were to win the National , ’ Scott said , ‘ for the two owners have been immensely patient and have let me get on with bringing the horse back to his best after he had been off the course for two and a half years . ’ |
| 17 | The World Health Organisation recommends that all polio vaccines that are exposed to temperatures over 10°C for more than a day ( five days for measles vaccines ) should be used within three months . |
| 18 | This is a scandal not merely because police stations are not equipped to hold prisoners for more than a day or two — everyone from Lord Justice Woolf to the Inspectorate Constabulary has condemned the present arrangement — but because police cells are now being used as a convenience to enable the Prison Department and the Home Secretary to claim that overcrowding in prisons is diminished . |
| 19 | ‘ People are saying , if you 've been in existence for two and a half years , perhaps you 've got something about you , ’ he says . |
| 20 | Because Ermolov had been commanding Russia 's forces in the Caucasus for more than a decade ( and because he was something of a maverick ) , Paskevich had more friends in St Petersburg . |
| 21 | Crawford , who stayed in the play for more than a year before handing over to David Jason , said during its run , ‘ All your career as an actor you dream of having the things written up outside the theatre which are there about me — but now that they 're there it 's in a way the worst thing that could happen to me . |
| 22 | When the judge called the jury back this afternoon they 'd been considering their verdict for one and a half days . |
| 23 | His appointment is part of the most radical restructuring of Whitehall for more than a decade , with the creation of two new ministerial posts . |
| 24 | Although Mexico accounted in recent times for more than a third of the world 's production of silver , the extraction and working of the metal began there only late in the first millennium A.D. |
| 25 | Draft evasion had already been going largely unpunished by Lithuanian authorities for more than a year , and had been steadily increasing : on Feb. 16 more than 5,000 conscripts attending independence day rallies had publicly returned their call-up cards . |
| 26 | But he gave the lion 's share of the credit for the victory to Snodin , playing his first full 90 minutes for two and a half years after a series of hamstring and knee injuries put his career in doubt . |
| 27 | I was with Suu for two and a half weeks in April and I was able to tell her that this was going to happen today . |
| 28 | On the questions of prevention and punishment of crime , the Government have taken committed and sustained action for more than a decade . |
| 29 | I 've had a girlfriend for two and a half years , but before that I 'd never spoken to a girl in my life . |
| 30 | Their success attracted a worldwide following as the Lisbon Lions and their successors dominated Scottish football for more than a decade . |