Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] for [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus profiling is always likely to be seen as of peripheral importance to the academically able , central only to those who have already been deemed unsuitable for further or higher education . |
| 2 | ‘ Music got neglected for more than two years , ’ he says . |
| 3 | A chap who had slept rough for more than 20 years was invited to offer ideas on how it should be run . |
| 4 | If it stays blanked for more than three minutes , the monitor switches to stand-by mode . |
| 5 | Dreadnought had stayed afloat for more than sixty years , and Richard , Skipper though he was , did n't understand timber . |
| 6 | Previously this ratio had remained stable for more than 20 years . |
| 7 | Meanwhile John Arlott 's birthplace , Cemetery Lodge in Basingstoke , has been restored after standing empty for more than three years . |
| 8 | This was done , and a connection which had existed unbroken for more than four centuries was at an end . |
| 9 | The impersonation so lightly undertaken proves necessary for more than one day , for the King becomes the ‘ Prisoner ’ of his ruthless brother . |
| 10 | The building was in use for its original purpose until the early 1960s , but by the time it was acquired for conversion into dwellings in 1977 , it had lain empty for more than ten years and was decaying rapidly because the upper floors and roof covering of the mill had been destroyed in a fire . |
| 11 | Biggs rolled over on to his back and remained motionless for more than two minutes after referee Larry O'Connell had completed the count . |