Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] for [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was coming up to my eleven hours — we 're not supposed to drive for more than eleven hours — and I went in and there was Charlie Hatton . |
| 2 | A single leaf of the Gutenberg ( or Mazarin ) Latin Bible of c.1456 is likely to cost from £2,000-£3,000 ; even an imperfect copy of Coverdale ( which is the only condition in which it occurs ) will probably fetch from £5,000-£10,000 according to the nature of its deficiencies ; and a reasonable copy of the first issue of the first edition of the Authorised Version would be hard to find for less than £2,000-£3,000 . |
| 3 | ‘ If there 's not enough , it 's likely to expand for ever and become infinitely large . ’ |
| 4 | Credit will only be given for technical articles and credit for this type of reading is unlikely to account for more than 25% of total unstructured CPE . |
| 5 | For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it . |
| 6 | The older farmers particularly found it difficult to concentrate for more than 3 hours . |
| 7 | Minor analgesics and preparations dispensed to make rheumatism less unbearable accounted for more than 33 million prescriptions on the National Health Service ( 11 per cent of the total ) in 1980 . |
| 8 | What emerges from an attempt to answer the last question is that the known low-cost reserves will have been significantly run down by 2025 , but total reserves are large , sufficient to last for more than 400 years at present rates of consumption , according to one estimate . |