Example sentences of "[adj] for [adv] a [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | These had been kept intact for almost a century by Louisa Greenough Powers Ibbotson and her descendants . |
| 5 | Paula had been dry for almost a year before the taxi fracas . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They had been free for nearly a month . |
| 9 | The bungalow , in a pretty Worcestershire village , has been empty for nearly a year . |
| 10 | At the official press conference today , Brian Horton said he 'd been looking at the young twenty-one year old for quite a while . |
| 11 | That would have kept her warm for quite a spell . ’ |
| 12 | This year 's El Niño is the most serious for nearly a decade . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ He was ill for about a week . |
| 15 | Maxim had wondered about that : the blast effect had seemed pretty widespread for just a bomb . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They had been married for about a year . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Then it all went black for quite a while . |
| 20 | People surged forward and back ; the Man realized he was needed and turned to go out of Woil 's cage , probably thinking that if he left the door ajar for only a moment Woil was too placid and safe a bird to try to escape . |
| 21 | Statistically the chemical industry is responsible for just a fraction of dioxin ‘ production ’ from combustion with domestic fires accounting for a much larger chunk . |
| 22 | In all of the forested areas sampled by Eyre , commercial lumber production was responsible for only a proportion of the deforestation . |
| 23 | Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania-based Transarc Corp will begin shipping its Distributed Computing Environment and Encina transaction processing monitor for SunSoft Inc Solaris 2.1 and 2.2 from next month — the development kits for both the environments have been available for over a year . |
| 24 | Transarc Corp will begin shipping its Distributed Computing Environment and Encina on-line transaction processing monitor for SunSoft Inc Solaris 2.1 and 2.2 from next month — development kits for both environments have been available for over a year . |
| 25 | Demand for the new product , which has been available for around a year under MS-DOS , is apparently spiralling with orders received so far from British Telecommunications Plc , Sun Alliance , Citibank and retailer The Body Shop . |
| 26 | This situation only arises when the motor is stationary ; if the motor is moving the phases are excited in sequence and any one winding is excited for only a fraction of the cycle . |
| 27 | Re-rigging the ship for an Antarctic voyage inside of a week , after she had been lying idle for over a year , was quite impossible . |
| 28 | Meanwhile Dennis Peck , the erstwhile president of Interactive Systems Corp and the man who presided over the sale of half of it to SunSoft Inc , has joined Sequent Computer Systems Inc as senior vice president of marketing , a position that 's been open for over a year . |
| 29 | There are , however , no tigers in Sri Lanka , so they must have reached the southern tip of India when the land bridge to that island had disappeared and the sea gap become too wide for even a tiger to swim across . |
| 30 | The humidity created by grouping together in the bath will keep them moist for quite a while . |