Example sentences of "[adv] for a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos the we er did get people contacting the office to say I 've got a lump sum , I 'd like to put it somewhere for a couple of years , and er we always wondered why they 're thinking of a couple of years . |
| 2 | If not , she could try to find somewhere for a cup of tea . |
| 3 | In this he argued powerfully for a revival of social citizenship and the ‘ developmental state ’ . |
| 4 | The only real kiss is the platonic one between Dustin and McQueen on the cliff top , before McQueen dives into the sea and escapes , swimming surprisingly powerfully for a man of his age and condition . |
| 5 | When d'Argenlieu dispatched himself hastily to Paris a few days after the French elections and before the Haiphong incident , it was to lobby intensively for a policy of firmness ; and his tactic , says Devillers , was simple : to create fear . |
| 6 | There are , finding fifty hectares or thereabouts for a development of this kind and characteristic out of the districts ' allocations on the one hand in their geography , you know that has to be broadly speaking within the existing settlement pattern on the other , not possible . |
| 7 | You should continue to walk aerobically for a minimum of 30 minutes each day , four times a week ; and you should continue to use the low fat Walking Diet recipes and adapt them to your own diet . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm all right for a couple of minutes . ’ |
| 9 | The wheels would be all right for a couple of days ; then they 'd become ten times worse and they 'd have to come to the smithy . |
| 10 | There was two of them w wi with a Range Rover the other morning er with all sorts of notices and the following morning they had a motorcyclist er hidden behind the hedge as it were er that seemed to obviously put things right for a couple of days . |
| 11 | However , the males compete vigorously for a share of paternity : if one male mates with the female the others all mate with her in rapid succession . |
| 12 | Electoral democracy produces a ready-made machine for minority groups to fight effectively for a share of central resources , once they learn to act as a group and are sufficiently concentrated for electoral purposes . |
| 13 | It may strike you as unusual but , once mastered , it can be used very quickly and effectively for a variety of purposes : |
| 14 | The emphasis in the first two years in the English classroom is on consolidating basic linguistic competence and ensuring that the pupils can read , comprehend and write effectively for a variety of purposes , including imaginative , argumentative and reflective writing . |
| 15 | I have selected these six passages because they appear to me to call effectively for a rethinking of practically every aspect of the pre-1967 school curriculum in Tanzania — its underlying values , the structure , the balance between in-school and out-of-school activities , the content and pacing of the materials in relation to the age of the learners and the whole process and attitude towards evaluation . |
| 16 | Terrified , they seek fruitlessly for a means of escape from their hunters . |
| 17 | Here , it is not doing duty for a use of rhinoceros but rather for a mention of it . |
| 18 | Banks are competing fiercely for a share of the slower-growing market . |
| 19 | ‘ Latterly that takes me there quite often enough for a member of the Church of England , let alone an atheist . |
| 20 | and large enough for a bit of extra elbow room . |
| 21 | Tyrell ran the March team in 1970 but the car was not good enough for a driver of Stewart 's calibre so Tyrell decided to build and run one under his own name for Stewart . |
| 22 | Go and pack a few things , enough for a couple of days . |
| 23 | A 15 gallon tank is large enough for a pair of Discus . |
| 24 | Expansion south towards the nearby colony of Maryland went on fast enough for a pair of surveyors , Mason and Dixon , to have to draw a boundary between the two in 1702 , though this line was not completely accepted for some decades . |
| 25 | And now he was insinuating that she would be extending her stay long enough for a tour of the whole country ! |
| 26 | That children who experience a level of difficulty in learning significant enough for a Record of Needs to have been opened up for them can learn a foreign language within a special school setting . |
| 27 | He had a couple of ten pound coins , barely enough for a cup of tea . |
| 28 | Thirty minutes since Dominic had gone inside that room … time enough for a readjustment of ideas , time enough to let resentment flood back to the place it had just left . |
| 29 | At Nesseby we found a tiny peninsula with cliffs just high enough for a colony of kittiwakes , which were all feeding large young . |
| 30 | Eve Dennis , of the Arthur Rank Centre 's Church and Conservation project , promoter of the campaign , believes that churchyards provide a focus and are small enough for a group of local enthusiasts to manage . |