Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Choose a sun protection factor of 15 or more for the first few days . |
| 2 | The US money supply was allowed to grow at 10 per cent per year or more for the next four years , having been virtually unchanged in 1969 . |
| 3 | Thank you very much , please do stay with us either for the whole afternoon , or certainly for the next |
| 4 | Thus a suspect defence completed the qualifying programme of six matches without conceding a goal ; they must be doing something right , although not for the first time their debt to Shilton was manifest . |
| 5 | Their second defeat in four days by a London club means that a quick return to the present Second Division is more likely than ever for the First Division 's bottom team . |
| 6 | I do believe that then for the first time it dawned on people that Northern Ireland was a series of Catholic and Protestant ghettoes . |
| 7 | I was in great pain , and suddenly for the first time in my life , I forgot my fear of John Reed . |
| 8 | And so for the next year Anne lived in Charlottetown , and went to college every day . |
| 9 | Suddenly , and perhaps for the first time , Shirley Brown felt a twinge of affection for the lonely little woman who seemed far more aware of what was going on than any of them . |
| 10 | I do n't want to raise your hopes too much , Rebecca , but I think what , er the idea behind this , I er , thing is , families with two tellies , paying twenty pounds extra for the second set , and perhaps for the third set , another twenty pounds , it 's to try and lessen the burden on viewers who genuinely ca n't afford the existing licence fee as it is now , and Rebecca , I would have thought that you would 've fallen into that category . |
| 11 | As he said ( and not for the first time ) , you ca n't beat a bit of local knowledge . |
| 12 | That let off seemed to breathe relief back into the home side , and not for the first time this season the imposing physical presence of youngster Ferguson proved crucial with a deft header which set up Cleland for a fine angled finish from 15 yards for the leveller . |
| 13 | As the throng of workers laughed and joked , tucking into the vast amount of food laid out before them , Annie 's mind went back to other Mell Suppers and not for the first time , she reflected on how her family had dwindled . |
| 14 | The whole episode was built around the book and before very long , and not for the first time , the fascist implications were there again , not only as far as Alf was concerned but , by implication , involving me too . |
| 15 | Her voice dropped , turning low and vicious , and not for the first time , Michael Lee realized how cold and calculating , how vicious and cunning she was . |
| 16 | The sun beat into the sedan , and not for the first time I questioned the desirability of our climate as applied to automobile drivers . |
| 17 | She smiled warmly , and not for the first time the girl thought how incredibly lovely her mistress was . |
| 18 | Not surprisingly and not for the first time , trade union leaders wondered whether it had become impossible to mount a legal strike . |
| 19 | He strolled down the road , thinking , and not for the first time , what a remarkably quiet and empty road Church Row was . |
| 20 | I wo n't accept the job because of Tom Russell , she thought feverishly , and not for the first time . |
| 21 | This time , and not for the first time , it was to be Jenna . |
| 22 | No need to ask who 's been on the piss all weekend , and not for the first time . |
| 23 | However , and not for the first time in this chronicle , I am wrong . |
| 24 | Again his gaze was intent , and not for the first time Robbie cursed the need for evasion , the maintenance of her fiction concerning Hugh . |
| 25 | Fen suggested , and not for the first time Robbie wished she could clear up this misapprehension . |
| 26 | She put her fingers to the top of his brow and traced a three inch scar downwards to the back of his ear , thinking as she did so , and not for the first time , that he had nearly paid dearly for his happiness . |
| 27 | Ironically , and not for the last time in history , the Communist-inspired proletariat had more clout outside the Soviet borders than within . |
| 28 | The lights flickered on and off for the last dance . |
| 29 | Speaking last night from the motel in Kelowna , 400 miles north of Vancouver , where she has lived on and off for the last three years , Mrs Allan said : ‘ I am not coming home until I have got my child . |
| 30 | Nor does it rely principally on my experience in classrooms , though I have been , briefly , a secondary schoolteacher and have been visiting schools and working with young people in a variety of ways on and off for the last sixteen years . |