Example sentences of "there for [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a terrible job , standing there for eight and a half hours — because you did n't finish after eight hours . |
| 2 | ‘ I was there for two and a half years , now I would just like to keep my happy memories . ’ |
| 3 | We stayed there for ten and a half years until 15 September 1991 , without ever having any explanation as to why we were being held . |
| 4 | A relatively high proportion of those in other types of home were there for less than a month . |
| 5 | I had n't been there for more than a minute when the skipper bellowed : ‘ This is melanoma country , mate . |
| 6 | Twelve of their heads were impaled on the Charles Bridge pour encourager les autres and remained there for more than a decade . |
| 7 | Those papers have been there for more than a century . |
| 8 | Gardner 's been out there for more than a decade , has been back and forth from the Qualifying School three times , has yet to win a tournament , and in a good year can make $150,000 . |
| 9 | No war correspondent , however , could have described the gloom that pervaded the air , or the look of hopelessness ingrained on the faces of anyone who had been there for more than a few days . |
| 10 | Muhammad went up the mountain — ; He was up there for more than an hour — |
| 11 | The family moved to Inverness in about 1810 and Joseph attended the Academy there for three and a half years . |
| 12 | you know when Les , oh she says there 's been about half a dozen people at that paint shop , sends chops and changes she said she said , she said I have n't lived there for three and a half years |