Example sentences of "[noun prp] for [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that he was content to stay as a house guest of Sir John Popham for quite a while , though it has been suggested he was thrown into a debtor 's prison shortly after the event . |
| 2 | ‘ He was Rainer Schickert for only a year and a few months — and mostly in hiding . |
| 3 | ‘ She said she had been locked in a flat in Moston for about a week and had been injected with drugs during that time . |
| 4 | She hesitated for a moment before adding in a lowered voice , ‘ She 's known Philippe for quite a while , but I do n't think she ever realised … ’ |
| 5 | At the end of July and beginning of August a group of six Drouot experts , headed by the president of the company Joël-Marie Millon , were in Moscow for almost a week offering free estimates to the Muscovites on their works of art , antiques and jewellery . |
| 6 | Bruce added : ‘ Things had n't been going well with Phonogram for quite a while . |
| 7 | Apart from the doctor and his wife and Giles Carnaby they were all people from the village who had not had an opportunity for a good look at the inside of Greystones for quite a while and were busy taking note . |
| 8 | The suspension of Mrs Kemp for over a year with no reasons being given by the local authority , caused grave misgivings in Orkney . |
| 9 | I last visited Mexico for almost a month during May and June 1989 . |
| 10 | Wang Ruowang , a prominent writer and dissident , was unexpectedly released on Oct. 29 after being held in detention in Shanghai for over a year . |
| 11 | Henry VIII , in the 1530s , had begun to encourage Renaissance work by importing Italian craftsmen , but his break with the Pope over his religious and marital problems postponed the arrival of the Renaissance in England for nearly a century . |
| 12 | I 've known Heather for quite a while — a sort of on-and-off relationship , I suppose . |
| 13 | I continued my visits to Miss Havisham for almost a year . |
| 14 | You sail turnwise from the Brown Islands for about a week and there it is . |
| 15 | She had been living in Crow Court off Vetch Street for nearly a week , and the narrow lives of the people among whom she found herself appalled her . |
| 16 | But in October 1951 , when Ramsey had professed at Cambridge for exactly a year , Churchill came back to power . |
| 17 | I 've known Newley for quite a while now . |
| 18 | He added : ‘ I have been visiting North Tees for over a year now and there is no doubt in my mind that the majority of staff want the trust and are looking forward to it . ’ |
| 19 | Interpol has been called in to try and help trace a man who 's been missing in Bosnia for almost a year . |
| 20 | Gross and widespread human rights violations have afflicted Peru for almost a decade . |
| 21 | AWA has been operating Club Keno in NSW Registered Clubs in Australia for over a year . |
| 22 | Is it because I am consumed with envy when I pass the Woodborough bookshop , and there is Eleanor 's newest novel in a special display , and with resentment because I have n't heard from Mary for over a year because she is so busy now , commuting to Brussels being a Euro-lawyer ? |
| 23 | At Abbotsfield itself he had lived in the same house as Kate for nearly a month . |
| 24 | This courtesy , tenderly performed , seemed right out of place to me , but it went down okay with Mrs Davis , who peered up at Fielding for quite a time before she said , |
| 25 | Erm my history in the police is that I 've got eighteen years ' police servicing , started at Newark which is n't too far away from here , did about four years there and I was a village policeman at Alderton for about a year of that time . |
| 26 | THE FIRST regular steam-hauled passenger services over the old Great Central Route between Quainton Road and Aylesbury for over a quarter of a century were run on August 30 . |
| 27 | I was at Leeds and Newcastle for just a year and you did n't have time to get your boots dirty . ’ |
| 28 | Henry III 's youngest sister married , in 1238 , Simon de Montfort , Earl of Leicester , who wanted royal policy to be controlled by a ‘ Parliament ’ with representatives from the larger towns , and he effectively kept Henry III and his son , captive at Lewes for over a year . |
| 29 | Suzy had even let Joey live with Seth for almost a year . |
| 30 | She was she taught in Pennycook for quite a while , then she went down to Birmingham . |