Example sentences of "[adj] for [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house was in need of total renovation and would not be habitable for nearly a year , but the Ashleys moved into a hotel in Le Touquet from where they hoped to oversee the extensive repairs to the exterior and interior . |
| 2 | oh you it 's due for about a bit more then |
| 3 | According to Hearn the WPBSA intends to take only 16 players for a week to its overseas events instead of 32 for nearly a fortnight . |
| 4 | I , I maybe fall asleep for maybe an hour or two and then I 'm woken and I 'm coughing all the time . |
| 5 | HaL Computer Systems Inc , Campbell , California , remains one of the most difficult companies to ferret information out of so we 're grateful for even a glimmer of intelligence . |
| 6 | These had been kept intact for almost a century by Louisa Greenough Powers Ibbotson and her descendants . |
| 7 | And have you been taking that for quite a while ? |
| 8 | And I carried on doing that for quite a number of years and I managed to be voted onto the Edinburgh committee . |
| 9 | And er we were on that for about an hour or so and then they got rid of the the badly injured were taken off then and put on the Therris it 's support vessel that was Just happened to be there at the time . |
| 10 | Paula had been dry for almost a year before the taxi fracas . |
| 11 | Ploughing through this for almost an hour brought us well into the hillside and at length to where the rail bed rose out of the water and into the old engine room . |
| 12 | ‘ This is the first time we 've had ones like this for quite a while . ’ |
| 13 | We remained like this for about a quarter of a minute . |
| 14 | Taking everything into consideration , the 1993 Coca Cola North West 200 — which is the 64th of the series — must be the most open and potentially exciting for quite a number of years . |
| 15 | The lucky ones have found jobs , of course , but many others have now been unemployed for over a year — or even two years in a significant number of cases . |
| 16 | They had been free for nearly a month . |
| 17 | The bungalow , in a pretty Worcestershire village , has been empty for nearly a year . |
| 18 | At the official press conference today , Brian Horton said he 'd been looking at the young twenty-one year old for quite a while . |
| 19 | It is clear that prophecy was part of the experience of the people of God in the Bible ( see Numbers 11:20,1 Samuel 19:20 , Joel 2:28 , Acts 2:18 ; 15:22 ; 19:6 ; 21:9 , 1 Corinthians 11:4–5 ; 12:28 ; 14:1 and 24 , Ephesians 4:11,1 Thessalonians 5:20 for just a sample of instances ) . |
| 20 | That would have kept her warm for quite a spell . ’ |
| 21 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman recognises that the increase in unemployment last month was the lowest for almost a year , that it was the third successive fall in the rate of increase and that it shows that the rate of increase in unemployment in Britain is now coming down fast . |
| 22 | It is good news that the increase in unemployment in this country last month was the lowest for almost a year . |
| 23 | This year 's El Niño is the most serious for nearly a decade . |
| 24 | We have been using these for only a number of weeks now , but the response has been very encouraging . |
| 25 | But , dear Christ , they could hardly talk : Paddy with his bashed-in nose , the look of a hog and a missing leg ; and the woman — his wife ? — she was lucky for even a guy like him . |
| 26 | ‘ He was ill for about a week . |
| 27 | Maxim had wondered about that : the blast effect had seemed pretty widespread for just a bomb . |
| 28 | There appeared to be a determinate , stable , inverse relationship between the rate of change of money wages and the unemployment rate which had continued to hold good for almost a century . |
| 29 | They had been married for about a year . |
| 30 | Wait until the baby has been well for about a week , and then reintroduce each food in turn , beginning with those least likely to cause trouble , and testing cow 's milk last . |