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 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 .
4 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 .
5 Although Frankie had been dozing , he was too hungry to sleep for more than a few minutes at a time .
6 Scriptwriter Tony Warren never expected his creation , played by William Roache , to last for more than a few years .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 . ’
11 Lisa had been smoking for twenty years and felt unable to stop for more than a day .
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