Example sentences of "[vb infin] for [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Downes himself could not stay for more than a few minutes . |
| 2 | And it would n't , you would never know for certain until a speculative proposal was actually put to the test . |
| 3 | My grandmother was taken ill with a burst ulcer and an ambulance was called for her at 10.45 , but it did not arrive for two and a half hours . |
| 4 | ‘ IF WE PARKED all the vehicles in my division end to end , they would stretch for one and a half miles ’ , says P&O Roadtanks Divisional Director , Joe Chapman . |
| 5 | They spread between people by coughing , sneezing and kissing but they can not live for more than a few seconds outside the body . |
| 6 | The heat did not last for more than a few seconds , and when it had passed , Ciparis was left in an awful solitude , his cries for help going unanswered as the city burned above him . |
| 7 | It can last for less than a day or up to three days , varying with individuals , breed , age , degree of contact with a male and geographical location . |
| 8 | Yet it is very hard to believe that this sort of explanation can account for more than a handful of hoards , if any . |
| 9 | The government 's North Sea oil take is depressed at present but will be on a rising trend as production begins to rise again to its 1985 peak and could account for more than a third of public spending . |
| 10 | Although the numbers of such changes associated with moves are not large , and they can not account for more than a very small part of the differential in unemployment rates between the two groups , the sale of a large proportion of public housing to sitting tenants who are more likely to be employed than the general local authority sector population will have contributed to the increase in the unemployment rate differential referred to earlier . |
| 11 | It must be emphasized , however , that whether the criterion be the number of courses or the number of teacher-days devoted to this topic , the development of productive links with parents and the community did not account for more than a one-hundredth part of the Authority 's in-service programme during the evaluation period . |
| 12 | In kung fu one can not train for more than a few months without hearing the phrase ‘ chi kung ’ , repeated time and time again . |