Example sentences of "[vb -s] for [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a whirlwind ride which rarely lingers for more than a minute on individual songs until we reach the '90s and the Zoo TV extravaganza . |
| 2 | Germany 's biggest tyre company and the second largest in Europe , Continental has for more than a century been world leaders in tyre design and technology |
| 3 | The surprise is not that an accountant stands for Labour while an iron and steel worker is an Alliance candidate , but rather that the class basis of the two sets of candidates is so distinct . |
| 4 | He dragged the 18-year-old girl to a nearby common and forced her into humiliating sex acts for more than an hour while the three-month-old baby she had been caring for lay alone in the house . |
| 5 | It stretches for three and a quarter miles from Leven to the river Hull . |
| 6 | Now it accounts for less than a quarter . |
| 7 | The programme ( taught by evening study ) begins in January and lasts for two and a half years . |
| 8 | It is a play for only one performer , and it lasts for less than an hour . |
| 9 | The company 's employees have embarked on a strike that could seriously disrupt international air travel if it lasts for more than a few weeks . |
| 10 | In this article , by LTP we mean synaptic potentiation , which is both NMDA receptor-dependent and lasts for more than an hour . |
| 11 | When the AccuCard detects an interruption in power , it warbles , gives you the ‘ brownout ! ’ message , and if the condition continues for longer than a second it 'll save the disk . |