Example sentences of "[vb pp] for [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , there was a slight hiccup when the entire Leyland Class 155 fleet were withdrawn for almost a year with door troubles ; they opened while the train was running . |
| 2 | Cheshire is actually sold when it is one to two months old , but it can be matured for over a year . |
| 3 | As Ascension Day is always on a weekday , the passers-by on their way to work are able to enjoy the singing which , as the church itself is on very high ground , can be heard for quite a distance . |
| 4 | You could then include a breeding pond ( occupied for only a fortnight or so each year ) . |
| 5 | Bramble was forty-five and had not been thus addressed for almost a quarter of a century . |
| 6 | Fortunately it was a price she could afford , and she had made the arrangements , coming back to her room to eat the best meal and sleep the best sleep she had done for quite a while . |
| 7 | Back here , his chance at Edgbaston , where last season he was selected for only a couple of first-class fixtures , came because Dermot Reeve was injured . |
| 8 | ‘ I have read and thought and practised and observed and written for over a quarter of a century , survived a world war , and still I have not been able to provide a home in which my children may be happy . ’ |
| 9 | She had no intention of telling him about Ian White , the medical registrar she had dated for over a year and who she had once thought might have come to mean much more in her life . |
| 10 | This sweet-tasting , open-textured meat with its fine , white fat needs to be hung for only a couple of days , so it remains quite pink . |
| 11 | In the largest public protest seen for over a year , an estimated 10,000 demonstrators marched through central Abidjan on May 31 chanting demands for the resignation of President Felix Houphouët-Boigny . |
| 12 | ( Barzani said on May 24 that the legislative and executive councils of the Kurdistan autonomous region created under legislation of 1974 had not operated for over a year . |
| 13 | Fair point , but the Leeds defence has struggled for almost a season and he still has n't put it right . |
| 14 | Look no further than the row of foundations — most of them have been used for about a week , which is as long as it takes to realise that they are wrong for your skin . |
| 15 | Even then it tends to be an option used for only a selection of shots depending on hazards , the pin position and preference for a particular shape of shot . |
| 16 | At this moment , at this precise moment , a feeling came over me that I had n't had for nearly a month . |
| 17 | The legislation was postponed for nearly a year . |
| 18 | Well they were bubbling this morning , I think mainly because of Saturday , when it r we were reall the whole club was lifted through Saturday afternoon because something was shown that erm has n't been shown for quite a while here . |
| 19 | Well they were bubbling this morning , I think mainly because of Saturday , when it r we were reall the whole club was lifted through Saturday afternoon because something was shown that erm has n't been shown for quite a while here . |
| 20 | A woman has offered to spend a hundred thousand pounds of her own money to reopen a village school that 's been closed for over a year . |
| 21 | Bred in vast numbers in the Far East they are sold for under a £1 . |
| 22 | Bertrand Gachot had not raced for over a year , but his relative inexperience did not show as he began to attack Suzuki 's Lola in the race 's later stages . |
| 23 | I got taken outside , thrown in a car and squashed between two men and driven for quite a while . |
| 24 | Control of the existing social machinery counted for quite a lot in this battle ; the reformers forced some concessions but failed to topple the existing hierarchy . |
| 25 | By the time of Fritz and Hitzig 's work it had been known for nearly a century that electrical stimulation of nervous tissue would produce movements . |
| 26 | THE action of alkali metals and their oxides as promoters for many catalytic reactions has been known for nearly a century . |
| 27 | She said that she knew about it and that she had known for quite a while . |
| 28 | Jahanbini had been one of the few people to have known for almost a month that they were going to leave Iran . |
| 29 | A MYSTERY man who has not spoken for almost a week broke his silence yesterday to Darlington police . |
| 30 | ( The Supreme Court had held flag-desecration to be a form of free speech protected by the First Amendment , but this bill provided for only a $25 fine in cases of assault upon flag-burners . ) |