Example sentences of "[adv] for [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shook his arm vigorously for more than a minute , but it was impossible to tell in the uneven twilight whether it dropped out or not . |
| 2 | Underground cellars may be cool enough for all but a handful of northerly ( ArticBoreal ) species . |
| 3 | For a girl who before her recent adventure had never been away from home alone for more than a weekend , the prospect which this room and Madame Chardin 's rules evoked was a daunting one . |
| 4 | Nicaragua was an American obsession and a dream , a proving-ground for ideology , and had been so for more than a century . |
| 5 | Posterity stretches ahead without limit whereas disc and tape manufacturers , when they are prepared to commit at all , are reluctant to do so for more than a few years . |
| 6 | LSI Logic Corp is joining the rush into computer-aided broadcasting products and has teamed up with Philips Consumer Electronics Co on several chip development projects aimed at compressed digital video broadcast applications : LSI Logic and Philips have worked together for more than a year designing a number of digital demultiplexing and video and audio processing chips for upcoming Philips digital receiver applications and they plan to develop future products for the digital television industry , which involves nearly all video transmission and pre-recorded media ; LSI also announced a new family of dedicated video and audio signal processors — a Motion Pictures Experts Group audio decoder , an MPEG video decoder , and a family of Reed Solomon error correction encoder-decoders , which together form a complete compressed digital television implementation ; the products , designed to be installed in the cable or satellite television receiver , are used to decode CD-quality digital audio and studio-quality digital video signals that have been compressed and modulated . |
| 7 | This team have only been together for less than a year and it is getting better all the time . |
| 8 | Much of the attraction of NVOCC carriage is that it offers discounted rates , especially for less than a full container load of cargo . |
| 9 | The Khmer Rouge does not want to rock the boat , having waited patiently for more than a decade for the Vietnamese to leave . |
| 10 | How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ? |
| 11 | Thence it runs directly southwards for four and a half miles to Woodstock . |
| 12 | Starts 10.30am for two and a half hours . |
| 13 | But , as RICHARD BATH discovers , England 's appointment of coach DICK BEST for less than a year means that , instead of a bright new era , we can expect a diet of pragmatism and playing the percentages . |
| 14 | I mainly run and organise the playgroup sessions which take place each weekday morning , usually for two and a half hours . |
| 15 | He could n't stay still for more than a few seconds and either paced the ground or fidgeted with his hair , clothes , hands , face and anything else within his reach . |
| 16 | ( Died of Parkinson 's disease and pneumonia aged 73 within 24 hours of being readmitted to hospital after being in an old people 's home for less than a month . ) |
| 17 | After tossing restlessly for more than an hour , Fran got up and crept from the room and down the stairs , hoping that a cup of tea would soothe her nerves . |
| 18 | In what , the chairman of the working party responsible for it and president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland , described as ‘ the most fundamental change in audit reporting probably for more than a generation ’ , the SAS seeks to close the so-called expectations gap and bring practice into line with recommendations of the report of the Cadbury committee on corporate governance , of which was also a member . |
| 19 | Er , I 've been now for six and a half years , I think , at the last count , er , I know I 've served just over half my sentence . |
| 20 | In the time of King Edward it answered for six sulings and now for two and a half , there is arable of seven teams , in demesne , there are three teams and fifteen villians with nine bordari have six teams . |
| 21 | The boy had been in his tutelage now for two and a half years , closer far to him than to his own Lancaster kin . |
| 22 | We 've been around now for two and a half years erm we work as support workers , I suppose , like erm community workers or social workers in some contexts . |
| 23 | Such a mood of concern has existed now for more than a decade and seems to mirror uncertainties of role occurring elsewhere in society . |
| 24 | It took him two weeks to die and for the second of those we spoke together every night by telephone , often for more than an hour . |
| 25 | Thus , although W. R. T. Skinner of the Yorkshire Electric Power Company was tarred with the company 's extreme anti-union reputation ( and not wanted by Citrine or the new Yorkshire Board ) the chairman-designate of the South Eastern Area Board was able to persuade Gaitskell to make him his deputy chairman , a position in which Skinner served loyally and efficiently for more than a decade , before himself succeeding to the chairmanship of that Board . |
| 26 | It was important that government and the European Commission looked beyond the narrow confines of the current legalistic approach and took full account of the practical consequences of this onslaught on the system which has served the Community and world trade so well for more than a century , he said . |
| 27 | Er I myself and many others were here for two and a half years and I submit to you that this is a considerable portion of one 's adult lifetime and consequently , the experiences of the last three days have been very meaningful and very moving to those of us who did spend such a portion of our lives here in this place . |
| 28 | Help has been available here for less than a month , but already word has spread and swelled the starving population from 10,000 to 30,000 . |
| 29 | Although it has been grown here for more than a century , the low-growing variety A. dioicus Kneiffii is , surprisingly , less well known . |
| 30 | Various visitors are exempt : students here for more than a six-month course , EEC residents and those from countries who give UK residents free treatment ( reciprocal arrangement nations ) . |