Example sentences of "have [vb pp] for [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to be as patient as I could and I think David 's mother has realised for quite a long time that I was quite a good daughter-in-law to her ( although I was n't a daughter-in-law at that time ) but as a girl friend , I could understand her finding it obnoxious that her son brought some strange person into the house . |
| 2 | Fair point , but the Leeds defence has struggled for almost a season and he still has n't put it right . |
| 3 | I have found as somebody who has worked for about a quarter century , in the national liberation movement , in building women 's organisations , in building political parties and helping to build trade unions , that I have had to move from a position of seeing national liberation as solving the question . |
| 4 | The Russian Federation is a new state , which has existed for only a few months . |
| 5 | They 'd hesitated for almost a year before they 'd made the move , finally spurred along by the fact that they 'd grown sick of talking about it . |
| 6 | By contrast , some of the smallest features seen have lasted for only a few hours . |
| 7 | Jahanbini had been one of the few people to have known for almost a month that they were going to leave Iran . |
| 8 | However , that buying policy seems to have existed for only a very short period and to have been an aberration , as indeed is Fishbane 's reign . |
| 9 | Fortunately it was a price she could afford , and she had made the arrangements , coming back to her room to eat the best meal and sleep the best sleep she had done for quite a while . |
| 10 | She had no intention of telling him about Ian White , the medical registrar she had dated for over a year and who she had once thought might have come to mean much more in her life . |
| 11 | It was after ten o'clock , and he would be quite right to disapprove , if it were n't for the fact that , in spite of appearances , she had slept for only a few hours last night . |
| 12 | She said that she knew about it and that she had known for quite a while . |
| 13 | Jenna knew she would feel trapped — she had known for quite a few days — but she was not about to tell Alain Lemarchand that , and she was just gathering her thoughts to answer when Marguerite called from the hall . |
| 14 | We had run for only a few hundred yards . |
| 15 | ‘ I am extremely sorry to inform you of the death of poor Mary Flint — the haemorrhage from the stomach had ceased for nearly a week in consequence of which her other symptoms became aggravated . |
| 16 | It all stemmed from the fact that England had tried for almost a century to conquer Scotland — and failed . |
| 17 | He swung round to stare at the spot where the barrow of ‘ Trumper , the honest trader ’ had stood for nearly a century , only to find a gaggle of youths warming themselves round a charcoal fire where a man was selling chestnuts at a penny a bag . |
| 18 | Nor was there an explanation as to why the letter , which was dated 10 June 1965 , had waited for over a year and a half before being revealed . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , I 've lived for over a hundred years , ’ replied the little old man proudly . |
| 20 | When France and Spain made peace in 1659 after a struggle which had lasted for almost a quarter of a century it was agreed that their representatives , Cardinal Mazarin and Don Luis de Haro , should meet on a small island in the River Bidassoa , which separated their territories in the Pyrenees . |
| 21 | They 've lasted for nearly a fortnight . |