Example sentences of "[adj] for [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the fifth night he finally fell asleep when the electrodes were on and recordings were being made , and stayed asleep for two and a half hours until his wife woke him . |
| 2 | We see no reason why the word should seem strange for more than a short time . |
| 3 | ‘ I doubt if Aldhelm would have lain helpless for more than a quarter of an hour from that blow on the head . |
| 4 | Hardly enough to keep a man alive for more than a month or two . |
| 5 | ROGER LINTON , 27 , is manager of Dunbar 's tourist information centre and was unemployed for three and a half months before finding a job . |
| 6 | Over-50s are excluded from the two groups to whom resources are directed : 18-to-24 year olds who have been unemployed for at least six months ; and 25-to-50 year olds unemployed for more than a year . |
| 7 | There is a great deal of prejudice about age , with the result that the older you are the more likely you are to remain unemployed for more than a year . |
| 8 | In April 1972 , the proportion unemployed for more than a year accounted for one-sixth of the total unemployed ; by April 1981 , the proportion had risen to one-fifth . |
| 9 | Since 1950 the number of those unemployed for more than a year has increased from 34,000 to more than a million at the start of this year . |
| 10 | THE NUMBER of people unemployed for more than a year passed the one million mark yesterday . |
| 11 | Moreover , in July 1991 unemployment benefit was to be abolished and replaced by a short-term " job search " allowance and a " new-start " allowance for those unemployed for longer than a year . |
| 12 | But if a case proves fatal , the result will not be a free for all but an even tougher enforcement mechanism to replace it |
| 13 | There are 5,733 empty council houses , almost 2,000 of which have been empty for more than a year . |
| 14 | We shall continue to put pressure on local authorities with stock that has been empty for more than a year . |
| 15 | He rightly points out that — apart from Brent , which has no overall control , and Tower Hamlets , which is controlled by the Liberal Democrats — the 10 authorities with the highest percentage of empties in their stock are Labour controlled , and about 20,000 properties have been left empty for more than a year . |
| 16 | The writing of a biography is simply impossible for more than a few major churchmen and even fewer secular rulers in the early Middle Ages . |
| 17 | The Soviet Union has now been a socialist state for more than sixty years : many countries in Western Europe have been socialist for more than a quarter century ; and Asia has not only the Chinese experiment in socialism but other countries in Asia , Africa and the Americas have experimented with socialism . |
| 18 | TOWARDS the end of her life my mother was in hospital , a victim of Alzheimer 's Disease , a severe diabetic , unable to walk and increasingly unable to remain conscious for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 19 | It 's been women-only for more than a century . |
| 20 | Moreover , the nature of sickness benefit from the state and from many employers means that people who are off work ill for less than a few months may not be worse off financially , anyway . |
| 21 | No molecule of our body survives unchanged for more than a few weeks or months ; over that period , even in adults , it is synthesized , plays its part in the cellular economy , and is then discarded , broken down and replaced by another more or less identical . |
| 22 | Only the wealthier trusts could afford his standards , but if they did so they purchased a road good for more than a century . |
| 23 | There were not so many of them : five , to be precise , and one of those was Charles , and another her first husband Edgar Lintot , to whom she had remained married for less than a year . |
| 24 | Department of Health and Social Services staff throughout Northern Ireland walked out in protest over the attack , and many offices remained closed for more than a week . |
| 25 | Hauser noticed again that Frank was very physical , could hardly keep still for more than a few minutes . |
| 26 | At one point the queue stretched four deep for more than a quarter of mile . |
| 27 | Our previously reported resolution rate at two to three years was similar to that of Leiberman and Bartal , who found clearance in 31% of 158 children with middle ear effusions untreated for two and a half years . |
| 28 | Nearly one million people have been JOBLESS for more than a year and personal BANKRUPTCIES soared by a third to more than 16,000 in the six months to June . |
| 29 | The active involvement between Japan and the Western world which began in the 1850s has been so important for both that a consideration of Japan 's place in the world order is an appropriate starting point for any discussion of her recent history . |
| 30 | Since then , observed levels of legal abortion can not be responsible for more than a fifth of the decline in legitimate fertility , although its impact of illegitimate births is greater . |