Example sentences of "[adv] be [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may seem as if it has been with us forever , but the ubiquitous American Express chargecard has , in fact , only been around for 35 years . |
| 2 | But he had only been away for three days . |
| 3 | This team have only been together for less than a year and it is getting better all the time . |
| 4 | Auntie Mavis has only been out for five to ten minutes twice cos of her knee . |
| 5 | ‘ There may be benefits for us too — if we do n't get on with the new rector he may only be here for five years , ’ said Miss Duff . |
| 6 | ‘ We 'll only be away for four nights , ’ she explained to Constance . |
| 7 | Good fully booked till one thirty in the afternoon , so there 's , there 's no point , we 'll only be there for two hours . . |
| 8 | The two older girls had already begun boarding school , so were away for most of the time , and Charles was only three and easily amused by the nanny . |
| 9 | But enough 's enough for one night . |
| 10 | The worst may soon be over for Australian wool farmers . |
| 11 | THE game could soon be up for some of the Beeb 's quiz shows . |
| 12 | It would thus be only for those films with generally low levels of subjective risk or few moving objects that subjects actually looked at the fixed information even in the recognition phase and were thus able to be biased by it . |
| 13 | Yeah but just phone up and just be on for more , more than a minute , you know , would n't be so bad but you start hanging about . |
| 14 | Thanks to the new guidelines , it 's likely they 'll still be here for many centuries to come . |
| 15 | I 'll still be around for next World Cup : Nigel |
| 16 | The first rule is that outlay in total , private and public , must always be enough for full employment . |
| 17 | References in the work of Constantine Porphyrogenitus , written in the tenth century , indicate that they were settled in Dalmatia in his time and had probably been there for two hundred years . |
| 18 | It had probably been there for some time ! |
| 19 | Pwllheli 's Richard Tudor , one of the skippers in the British Steel Challenge , will also be there for most of the week , giving his expert opinion on local sailing conditions and recalling his recent globe-spanning experiences . |
| 20 | Despite the fact that homoeopathy has now been around for close on two hundred years , very little research has been carried out either to attempt to understand how it works , or to prove that it does work . |
| 21 | The doctor , who had now been there for some time , and was looking at his watch , had been explaining . |
| 22 | Despite their 20-year age gap , the couple have now been together for eight years and run a pub in Amersham , Bucks . |
| 23 | I may even be abroad for some of that time . ’ |
| 24 | yeah he looked a bit bad but if you 're off for one you might as well be off for two ai n't ya ? |
| 25 | The English boy used to work in the hospital for a day at a time , and then be off for several days . |
| 26 | Maybe being abroad for three weeks in a band with seven people was n't the place to do it because it was a bit contained . ’ |
| 27 | Frenchman Eric Cantona will definitely be back for United after suspension , probably at the expense of Andrei Kanchelskis . |
| 28 | This couple came all the way from Staffordshire because of the Forest 's growing biking reputation and will definitely be back for more . |