Example sentences of "[det] for [adv] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | If she takes that for more than seven days it can poison her system . |
2 | My concern over this for almost as long as I can remember . |
3 | I 've had four in the morning 's like this for more than fifteen years . |
4 | Bachet said that he had checked this for more than 300 numbers but did not know how to prove it . |
5 | Since 1981 hundreds of people have been detained under this law , some for more than eight years . |
6 | But about 200 have spent some time in detention , some for more than four months . |
7 | Yet after the end of the Franco-Prussian War ( 1871 ) , none of the great powers fought one another for more than forty years , although these years were full , if not of wars , at least of rumours of wars . |
8 | The majority of leg ulcers ( 291 : 62 per cent ) had been present for under two years , 48 per cent ( 141 ) of these for less than six months . |
9 | I have been making notes on these for more than seventy years in the interest of my work as a cataloguer and expert at the Print Department . |
10 | 6.6% ( 125 ) men and 14.0% ( 297 ) women had been incontinent of urine at some time — 2.8% ( 52 ) men and 7.5% ( 159 ) women in the previous two months and 61% ( 124 ) of these for more than four years . |