Example sentences of "[noun pl] for [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bruce Springsteen has been pulling in crowds for more than a decade . |
| 2 | ‘ The Cosmological Pictures ’ , which have been winding through West and East European cities for more than a year , arrive at the Tate Gallery , Liverpool , at the end of next month , and Gilbert & George will be pioneering in China with exhibitions in Shanghai and Peking next autumn . |
| 3 | This is a scandal not merely because police stations are not equipped to hold prisoners for more than a day or two — everyone from Lord Justice Woolf to the Inspectorate Constabulary has condemned the present arrangement — but because police cells are now being used as a convenience to enable the Prison Department and the Home Secretary to claim that overcrowding in prisons is diminished . |
| 4 | Although Mexico accounted in recent times for more than a third of the world 's production of silver , the extraction and working of the metal began there only late in the first millennium A.D. |
| 5 | Draft evasion had already been going largely unpunished by Lithuanian authorities for more than a year , and had been steadily increasing : on Feb. 16 more than 5,000 conscripts attending independence day rallies had publicly returned their call-up cards . |
| 6 | But he gave the lion 's share of the credit for the victory to Snodin , playing his first full 90 minutes for two and a half years after a series of hamstring and knee injuries put his career in doubt . |
| 7 | The move took place in early December and we settled in so quickly that it is difficult to believe we have been in our new offices for less than a year . |
| 8 | I had not been counting own goals for more than a few minutes when I heard extraordinary sounds coming from my wardrobe . |
| 9 | There was no room in either of the two books for more than a suggestion of the way a woman might be changed by a complicated political and personal dilemma . |
| 10 | Magistrates in Bootle heard that library staff had attempted to retrieve some books for more than a year . |
| 11 | List Relationships can list full or partial tight relationships for all or a part of the database . |
| 12 | Staff of institutions responded about 18 per cent of those who had been in residential homes for less than a year , 47 per cent of those in one for longer . |
| 13 | As Becky drew her bath , she thought about Daphne 's words , delivered with humour and affection but still highlighting the problems she faced when trying to cross the established social barriers for more than a few moments . |
| 14 | I even wore those same trainers that had been glued to my feet for four and a half months . |
| 15 | The Phnom Penh government has been fighting the Khmers Rouges for more than a decade , but now it needs its old enemy . |
| 16 | Guests were informed that Accounts would be rendered weekly and ‘ Visitors for less than a week are charged 1 shilling per day extra ’ and that the Swimming Pool opened ‘ Daily at hours which can be ascertained from the office . ’ |
| 17 | To date the representation of detailed clinical descriptions for more than a narrow area of medicine has never been achieved by use of an enumerative approach . |
| 18 | The High Court in Edinburgh heard how Alan Smith had preyed on youngsters for more than a decade . |
| 19 | The European common shrew , found throughout Britain but not in Ireland , lives for less than a year . |
| 20 | The Blackbird Leys estate , together with others in Oxford , has been plagued by joyriders for more than a year . |
| 21 | He emphasises the need for recurrent education and presses for guaranteed incomes for all and a national superannuation fund . |
| 22 | There must be a meeting once every three or four weeks for one and a half hours . |
| 23 | The famous Plitvice Lakes — a national reserve and a UNESCO World Heritage Site — have been in the hands of terrorists for more than a year . |
| 24 | If you 're Toronto based , The Briars , a 200 acre world class resort on the south shores of Lake Simcoe , has welcomed guests for more than a century . |
| 25 | Thirteen thousand of them were commanded by a helmsman who had n't steered anything without wheels for more than a year . |
| 26 | Burnham-on-Sea 's period charm has attracted families for more than a century and offers modern and traditional facilities . |
| 27 | If the buyer retains the goods for more than a reasonable length of time without informing the seller that he rejects them . |
| 28 | When the fishing boat sails for three and a half hours unclear |
| 29 | An island of Czech reaction can not survive among its metamorphosed neighbours for more than a geopolitical instant . |
| 30 | An island of Czech reaction can not survive among its metamorphosed neighbours for more than a geopolitical instant . |