Example sentences of "[Wh det] run for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dozens of popular tourist spots across the world were represented at the exhibition which ran for five days . |
| 2 | One of the top sit-coms was ‘ On the Buses ’ which ran for sixty episodes . |
| 3 | Over £100,000 was spent on the campaign , which ran for six months , and culminated in the then Chancellor Nigel Lawson 's smug remark , following the Budget in March 1985 , that he had never had any intention of imposing a tax on books . |
| 4 | On the second part , well nobody feels more strongly that I do about the problems of noise pollution and I agree entirely there er with what councillor has to say but may I remind members that this council did have a full service for a six months period , you all seem to have forgotten that , we did have a full service , an experimental one which ran for six months , er we were advised by the officers at the end of that period it was not necessary to run the full seven day a week service , it was not necessary we are still being advised that that is not necessary , that is the advice we were given at the last committee meeting and er the majority of members supported that . |
| 5 | The turning-point in Lynn 's career came in 1922 when Leslie Henson and Tom Walls [ qq.v. ] cast him in Tons of Money , a sparkling farce which ran for two years at the Shaftesbury Theatre . |
| 6 | The seminar , which ran for two days , was attended by some 300 people . |
| 7 | Mrs Dale 's Diary , which ran for twenty-one years on BBC radio from 1948 , was always gently laced with humour ; its rural rival , The Archers , which began two years later , is a broadly similar amalgam of the playful and the sentimental ; and between them , in a sub-literary sort of way , they illustrate the power of a revived realism in post-war Britain : quite different from the grand-opera histrionics of American TV soaps like Dallas or Dynasty , which are scarcely funny at all , at least in intention , and wildly unrealistic as images of how the rich in the United States really live . |
| 8 | This most popular show , which ran for 12 years and hooked 22 million viewers at its peak , operated under all the usual constraints of economy sit-com — restricted set , small cast , tiresome re-establishment of norm every week — but somehow extracted magic from little more than the relationship between Harry H Corbett and Wilfrid Brambles . |
| 9 | What 's in the Box ? was one of the greatest successes of 1953 , and in 1960 Steen 's purchase of the King 's Theatre off Shaftesbury Avenue heralded a string of commercial triumphs , including One Thing After Another , which ran for three years , and , currently , Sex of One and Half a Dozen of the Other . |
| 10 | The group sessions , which ran for 90 minutes each week , opened with the clients discussing what they had eaten during the previous week . |
| 11 | The tournament , which runs for six days at Pontin 's Holiday Club , in Brixham , south Devon , has 70 competitors taking part . |
| 12 | These will be followed by ‘ Criticism , Black Women Artist ’ which runs for six weeks from the beginning of February . |
| 13 | King Juan Carlos will open Expo ‘ 92 , which runs for six months , on Monday . |
| 14 | The trust , which runs for five years , is chaired by the Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair and administered by the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland . |
| 15 | At Aylesham the Way links up with the Bure Valley Walk which runs for nine miles to Hoveton . |
| 16 | THE MINEMA IN KNIGHTSBRIDGE makes a welcome reopening with La Belle Noiseuse : Divertimento ( 15 ) , the shorter version of Jacques Rivette 's splendid La Belle Noiseuse which runs for four hours and which we were shown the other day . |
| 17 | Walkers will enjoy the Cotswold Way , which runs for 102 miles from Chipping Campden to Bath and which passes through Winchcombe . |
| 18 | The work of two Edinburgh artists is also in the exhibition , which runs for ten weeks at Briglands Gallery , Rumbling Bridge , near Kinross , until 31 May . |
| 19 | Fifteen miles away from Menzion you can join the Southern Upland Way , which runs for 212 miles from the south-west coast of Scotland to the eastern seaboard . |