Example sentences of "[conj] for [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He ca n't afford hot water , except for twice a week when he puts on his immersion heater for a bath . |
2 | But he never forgot that for almost a year he sank like a stone and would have disappeared without trace but for outside intervention . |
3 | I 've not heard that for quite a while and its unfamiliarity makes it sound strange . |
4 | That was no jackdaw 's call — although for just a moment I had taken it to be . |
5 | Television had brought golf to the working class and for just a moment television gave us an idea of what it meant to them . |
6 | Then he turned to Rachel and for just a moment allowed his gaze to meet hers . |
7 | The parrot-in-the-chimney affair quite definitely cooled both parents down a lot and for over a week they were comparatively civil to their small daughter . |
8 | There had been heated argument in the Supreme Soviet about the method of electing a President , and for over a week members of the opposition Democratic Party of Tadjikistan had been on hunger strike in support of popular elections . |
9 | They had played in the mound of and for over an hour . |
10 | The dividing wall holding this tank only attracts sunlight from one side and for only a couple of hours a day , and only at the height of summer . |
11 | He wrote articles for the magazine of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society , of which he was a founder , and for long a member of council . |
12 | Tersteeg , his ex-employer and for long a friend of the family , wrote him a disapproving letter . |
13 | Ken appreciated it and for almost a quarter of a century afterwards they would be close friends . |
14 | She did n't reply , and for about a minute they sat in silence , facing each other . |
15 | About twelve midnight the German positions in the village were over-run , and for about an hour the enemy mortaring in the farm area ceased . |
16 | ‘ It 's perfect , ’ the woman had said ; and for once a shop assistant had said no more than the truth . |
17 | It was the first physical contact between them for four years , but for just an instant it had seemed as if it had only been yesterday when she had last touched him . |
18 | Members can also choose how long they wish to stay at the ‘ weekend ’ , whether for just a morning or afternoon or for the whole day-and-a-half . |