Example sentences of "[v-ing] it for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm glad to hear that , ’ Claudia said , not believing it for one moment . |
| 2 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 3 | People who use land and invest their labour in it are benefiting society more than those real owners who neglect it to the extent of ignoring it for twelve years or more . |
| 4 | I 've been doin' it for thirty years , since old Doyle died . |
| 5 | He 's been doin' it for forty years . |
| 6 | Remember , each of the above exercises is immediately preceded by taking a deep breath , creating tension , and holding it for five seconds , then exhaling while letting go the tension and saying the word ‘ relax ’ to yourself . |
| 7 | On average , says the study , buying a share at its initial offering and holding it for three years yielded a total return ( dividends plus capital growth ) of just 8% . |
| 8 | The Frenchman on pole made a poor getaway and Senna took the early lead , holding it for 23 laps before Prost , after several previous attacks had been rebuffed , forced his way by . |
| 9 | Prost on pole made a poor start and Senna took the early lead , holding it for 23 laps before Prost , after several previous attacks had been rebuffed , forced his way by . |
| 10 | The descant accompanying it for fifty years had been one of complaint . |
| 11 | We 're giving it for six months . |
| 12 | They have surrounded a garrison at Bati , to the east , and on 19 September they attacked Mile on the Assab road , closing it for 36 hours . |
| 13 | four week course , but he 's running it for two hours for two weeks . |
| 14 | ‘ Course he will , ’ Joe snapped , ‘ bin doin it for twenty year . |
| 15 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |
| 16 | Tom 's been doing it for 18 years . |
| 17 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
| 18 | He 's been doing it for three years now . |
| 19 | And I 'll tell you right now that unless you listen to the people that have been doing it for twenty years , in other words you do n't make appointments to go and see people to talk about |
| 20 | He 's been doing it for twenty years |
| 21 | Been doing it for twenty days now , and erm , |
| 22 | She 's been doing it for twenty days . |
| 23 | Oh he said well I have n't been handling it for six weeks I said . |
| 24 | But it is seldom given as good an excuse for playing rough as it was this week by the blunder of the guerrilla force that has been fighting it for 23 years in Namibia and by the embarrassing unreadiness of the United Nations peacekeeping force to do its job of supervising the Namibian peace settlement . |
| 25 | It 's worth trying it for eighteen miles , is n't it ? ’ |
| 26 | If your chosen exercise has a value of five or more , then practising it for twenty minutes , three times a week , should be sufficient to maintain a level of basic fitness . |
| 27 | We 've just been going on timing it for one minute or something . |