Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's awful , sir , not eating much for three days . |
| 2 | ‘ Got to observe strict ARP , you see , Miss , though here we are gettin' on for five months of war and not a peep out of a Jerry plane . |
| 3 | Golden shares will prevent the French water companies that have been investing in the British water industry from bidding outright for five years . |
| 4 | GIRDING up for six hours with the Mahabharata is a long training . |
| 5 | She stayed in work until she was 29 walking out for five years with her fiance , an engineer 's blacksmith who was himself a great reader , while they saved up to marry . |
| 6 | ‘ I found a flea market in Holborn and was walking around for three hours . |
| 7 | Andrew Thomas , who has now replaced Phllips as Neath 's first-choice hooker , supplemented his work in the tight by galloping over for two tries . |
| 8 | The export department of Stoddard Carpets has been operating successfully for 26 years . |
| 9 | For when Erik and her husband , Trevor , from Oxford , eventually decided to tie the knot after living together for eight years , the prospect of a conventional white wedding did n't even enter their heads . |
| 10 | Anyway , they know each other pretty well , having been living together for two years now . |
| 11 | Mr Brazier and his senior staff , including deputy head chef Kevin Glasby ( above ) and senior sous chef Nick Bryan , worked virtually around the clock , pausing only for three hours sleep before starting again at 5am . |
| 12 | Erm , capital bonds , they used to be good rates , they , they 've deteriorated really , National Savings certificates well I 've covered index-linked , the only one I 'd really say er is n't super unless you 're a higher-rate taxpayer is the fortieth issue , which is paying under six percent , it 's not really worth picking up for five years . |
| 13 | The buyer will customarily ask for accounts ranging back for three years in respect of the activities of the management company . |
| 14 | They 've been hunting here for 150 years . |
| 15 | I see you 've got no carpets down anywhere the door 's not painted and he said you 've been living here for two years ! |
| 16 | They have been living here for seven years but now they are being inundated by refuse . |
| 17 | The Revenue treat the separation as likely to be permanent if the parties have been living apart for one year ( Pinson on Revenue Law , 17th edn , para 38 – 04 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ And these unveilings have been going on for eight years ? |
| 19 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 20 | He went there and back and do nothing to the people bol er er involved , being consulted and we 've had that going on for two years no consultation here has taken place with the people who it affects and there 's nothing in your motion to say it will . |
| 21 | In another class , a boy is being cross-examined on complaints by both girls and boys in the class that he has been groping them ; it emerges through class discussion that this has been going on for two years . |
| 22 | Their success revealed the misunderstanding had been going on for six years . |
| 23 | The present round of talks , which broke down and sparked the trade war between the US and Europe yesterday , has been going on for six years . |
| 24 | Negotiations had been going on for 17 months before the strike . |
| 25 | Efforts to procure his extradition , which have been going on for five years , and which seemed for a time to have been successful , have now been thwarted , at least for the moment . |
| 26 | Is he aware that the negotiations have been going on for five years , that we must have a replacement for the multi-fibre arrangement that will enable our textiles to penetrate the markets of countries which do not allow any textiles in and those with tariffs of 200 per cent. , and that even the United States has a tariff of 36 per cent . |
| 27 | mm , mm in any event members of the jury I , I forgot to mention to you earlier , er , thank you Mr you probably feel a wisdom of this having done several days of this case , two and a half hours is just about as long as anybody can be expected to sit and listen to evidence and er , what I was going to do , and I hope it does n't inconvenience anybody , I was going , instead of going on for three hours till one o'clock , I was gon na break off about half past twelve to about half past one , to break up the day as you know , I hope that 's alright , so what we 'll do we 'll go on now and , and I 'm sure , I think it 's doubtful if you would have got to that point by half past twelve , and then you and Lord sort it out and your learned duties as much as you can in the adjournment and then tell me afterwards what the brochure position is , I 'm sure you 've no objection to disclosing any brochures that you 've got that erm , or can get er which relate to that point |
| 28 | ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added . |
| 29 | The work at Grendon Prison has been going on for 30 years . |
| 30 | By lying down for twenty minutes each day you can prevent this from happening . |