Example sentences of "[verb] for [adj] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this time of year there was n't enough milk anywhere in the village to borrow for more than a few days . |
| 2 | Downes himself could not stay for more than a few minutes . |
| 3 | The so-called Anabaptists ' take-over of Munster in 1536 became for more than a century afterwards a byword among the respectable for the supposed anarchy , savagery and madness which were bound to result if ever the " multitude " gained political power . |
| 4 | It will be hard , as only one in ten succeed in abstaining for more than a year . |
| 5 | The Collector , his mind too feverish to recollect for more than a moment what all this activity was about , became absorbed in the contemplation of this pariah dog . |
| 6 | Other costs seem equally hard to cut ( staff costs account for less than a third of the total ) . |
| 7 | If junior creditors account for more than a third of the creditors , they can force concessions from their senior partners . |
| 8 | Although recorded annually there is no regular winter population , and birds rarely remain for more than a few days except in severe winters , when considerable influxes occur . |
| 9 | The Russian plan , probably inspired by the offer of £200,000 from British conservation groups to buy Brightness and his beluga comrade , Gorgeous , who is still free , prompted a furious reaction from British campaigners who fought for more than a month to have the beluga airlifted from Turkish waters to the Arctic . |
| 10 | It may be that like the other NCT groups people do not feel the need to attend for more than a few months ( ca n't stay a New Mum for ever ! ! ! ) and at the moment no one needs the MiE group I do not know and I would like to find out . |
| 11 | Some of the consequences were outlined in a study released on the eve of the conference by Arthur Andersen Petroleum Services which claimed that 20 per cent of future UK projects had been delayed for more than a year by the cash flow situation and other uncertainties . |
| 12 | Such comparison can not justify that performance — nothing can justify leaving 20,000 properties empty for more than a year . |
| 13 | And it would n't , you would never know for certain until a speculative proposal was actually put to the test . |
| 14 | It 's a whirlwind ride which rarely lingers for more than a minute on individual songs until we reach the '90s and the Zoo TV extravaganza . |
| 15 | Germany 's biggest tyre company and the second largest in Europe , Continental has for more than a century been world leaders in tyre design and technology |
| 16 | But after a week of total failure to concentrate for more than a minute he had to acknowledge to himself that nothing was going right . |
| 17 | The retailers Carpenter 's have been trading for more than a century . |
| 18 | The attack took place on April 30th and was not reported for more than a month . |
| 19 | Nigel had been very healthy all his life and , apart from a slipped disc and the odd bout of ‘ flu , had never been incapacitated for more than a day or so . |
| 20 | The harassing of those caught out by need where they had no settlement was the dark side of the eighteenth-century Poor Law with its associated evasive strategies such as hiring for less than a year , pulling down cottages on the wastes , apprenticing pauper children beyond the bounds and hustling unwilling couples into marriage to avoid the maintenance of a bastard . |
| 21 | Implicitly , they have accepted many of the criticisms made for more than a decade by Labour councils and civil libertarians : that a force which has dug itself in behind ramparts of elitist isolationism must begin to respond to demands of the public it serves and their political representatives . |
| 22 | I 'm looking for more than a secretary , you understand . |
| 23 | David Linley , 31 , and 22-year-old Serena , who is the grand-daughter of wealthy Lord Harrington , have been dating for more than a year . |
| 24 | ‘ I tell you this , Mr Millet , two or three years ago I would n't have had the time to sit down and chatter about a chap I have n't seen for more than a year . |
| 25 | The total number of people waiting for NHS treatment in the UK rose to more than one million in March 1990. 25% of inpatients wait for longer than a year for treatment . |
| 26 | Runciman had sympathisers within the Federation in favour of a more liberal approach which , he believed , would bring a ready response from Wilson , but they were in a minority to those dominated by the formidable George A. and Cuthbert Laws , father and son , whose implacable anti-union line prevailed for more than a quarter of a century . |
| 27 | If full airbrakes are needed for more than a few seconds , and it looks as though they should be kept on , sideslipping should be used to get rid of the excess height so that for the last part of the approach less than full airbrake approach is required . |
| 28 | The civilization flourished for more than a millennium until , about 1400 BC , the comparatively nearby volcanic island of Thera erupted in a fashion that makes the 1883 Krakatoa event look like a mere squib . |
| 29 | If you want to head off into the higher mountains , cross-country skiing is n't the best sport for children : the effort , though not strenuous , is constant , and children under ten could tire if asked to ski for longer than a half-day . |
| 30 | I suppose I 've seen Matthew with the safe open , and I may have noticed the books , but this firm has been going for more than a century and one does n't take much notice of such things , one has grown up with them . ’ |