Example sentences of "[to-vb] for more [subord] a " in BNC.

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1 At this time of year there was n't enough milk anywhere in the village to borrow for more than a few days .
2 The Collector , his mind too feverish to recollect for more than a moment what all this activity was about , became absorbed in the contemplation of this pariah dog .
3 One is certainly not enough , when you consider the number of cars and drivers who use this stretch of motorway each day.It 's unwise for people tol have to drive for more than an hour and a half without taking a break .
4 It may be that like the other NCT groups people do not feel the need to attend for more than a few months ( ca n't stay a New Mum for ever ! ! ! ) and at the moment no one needs the MiE group I do not know and I would like to find out .
5 But after a week of total failure to concentrate for more than a minute he had to acknowledge to himself that nothing was going right .
6 Although Frankie had been dozing , he was too hungry to sleep for more than a few minutes at a time .
7 Scriptwriter Tony Warren never expected his creation , played by William Roache , to last for more than a few years .
8 One broken collar-bone , and a cut on the back of his shoulder — and even that refused to bleed for more than a couple of minutes .
9 Such excellence sometimes has the effect of creating an ‘ us ’ and ‘ them ’ attitude in parishes , where their parish musicians feel unable or unwilling to settle for more than a mediocre level of performance .
10 If there is a need for screening , it is in identifying the types of congenital malformations , such as anencephalus , which will not permit the child to live for more than a few weeks .
11 As long ago as 1976 , the marine resources committee of the FAO believed that ‘ populations of all three dolphin and porpoise species were probably being exploited in the Turkish fishery at levels they would not be able to survive for more than a few years . ’
12 Lisa had been smoking for twenty years and felt unable to stop for more than a day .
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