Example sentences of "[verb] for more [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 | One is certainly not enough , when you consider the number of cars and drivers who use this stretch of motorway each day.It 's unwise for people tol have to drive for more than an hour and a half without taking a break . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The retailers Carpenter 's have been trading for more than a century . |
| 17 | The attack took place on April 30th and was not reported for more than a month . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I 'm looking for more than a secretary , you understand . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | The second route was to give the library user direct access to those machine-readable bibliographic records from which card and computer output microform ( COM ) catalogues had been produced for more than a decade through shared centralized cataloguing . |
| 28 | He dragged the 18-year-old girl to a nearby common and forced her into humiliating sex acts for more than an hour while the three-month-old baby she had been caring for lay alone in the house . |
| 29 | The A55 Conwy tunnel was closed for more than an hour . |
| 30 | Icy hold-up : Birk Brow on the Guisborough-Whitby moor road was closed for more than an hour yesterday morning because of ice . |