Example sentences of "for [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean yes er as I said earlier on it 's just a question for for just a bit more obviously in the readings report th there is there is concern naturally with the by-passes in paragraph two five I mean I have n't had a chance to sort of looking up yet , and I 'd by grateful for County Executive 's advice on that and I thought we as a County Council had agreed a line erm for a by-pass through the West Sussex portion at least . |
| 2 | Direct sampling of the dust at various landing sites has indicated that it extends downwards for at least a metre or so . |
| 3 | The future of Kedleston was uncertain for at least a decade . |
| 4 | For at least a decade after 1906 relations between the police and headmen were often poor . |
| 5 | Leigh says : ‘ I honestly thought I was going to be on my own for at least a decade but I did n't know the Twiglet was going to come on the scene . |
| 6 | Despite having coached Northerns so well in tandem with Williams in the late Eighties , Eugene Van Wyk was refused and Ian Kirkpatrick , who has not coached at provincial level for at least a decade , has been named . |
| 7 | If the GDR , with a 1982 debt service ratio of 63 per cent faces an uphill struggle , Poland , with a debt service ratio of 191 per cent has put herself beyond the point of return as an OECD trading partner for at least a decade . |
| 8 | In other words , the bulk of its plutonium is likely to remain stashed in potentially vulnerable stockpiles for at least a decade . |
| 9 | Both before the adoption of the principle in the 1945 Family Allowance Act and for at least a decade after its implementation , some women 's organisations were either positively hostile or dis-tinctly lukewarm in their attitudes . |
| 10 | With current failure rates of around 1% a year a new design that was a 30% improvement over an older one ( a truly radical improvement ) would require a trial of many thousands of patients followed up for at least a decade before a significant difference could be shown . |
| 11 | ‘ He left SIS back in sixty-two but kept some contact with the service for at least a decade afterwards . ’ |
| 12 | To Western anti-apartheid campaigners the apple has been saying , ‘ Damn the racist apartheid system , boycott South African fruit , ’ for at least a decade . |
| 13 | She did notice too that Moran was more carelessly dressed than she remembered and had n't shaved for at least a day . |
| 14 | It is always a good idea to keep cakes for at least a day before cutting them to allow the contents to settle . |
| 15 | Violent anti-Chinese demonstrations in the Tibetan capital Lhasa , during which the people took control of the city for at least a day . |
| 16 | WARSAW ( Reuter ) — The Polish Finance Minister , Leszek Balcerowicz , offered Poles a harsh dose of economic austerity yesterday , but said no relief from soaring prices and food queues could be expected for at least a year . |
| 17 | Mr Les Aspin , the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee , warned that US military police units might be forced to stay in Panama for at least a year to help keep the peace . |
| 18 | Dried mushrooms keep for at least a year and 75g/3oz is equivalent to 450g/1lb of fresh ones . |
| 19 | From the Mexican border to Oregon there is enough to see and do to occupy a full-time tourist for at least a year . |
| 20 | Campbell concluded that we may not see the effect of economic recovery for at least a year — perhaps not until 1993 . |
| 21 | Driving licences and permits — All drivers must be at least 21 years of age ( 23 in Greece ) and must produce a valid national driving licence , held for at least a year , when taking delivery of the car . |
| 22 | The polarity of the crystal is preserved for at least a year and , in theory , as long as 10 years after power to the cell is switched off . |
| 23 | You will feel clumsy and inept at most of the manual skills for at least a year , ; confidence and speed will only begin to appear the second or third time round . |
| 24 | He said he and wife Brenda had been growing apart for at least a year . |
| 25 | Jean Collona also slunk through the Seventies and underlined a look that will for at least a year separate the old from the young . |
| 26 | He is staying here for at least a year to make a television series with Roger Moore . ’ |
| 27 | At the very least , he is hoping for a stay of execution to keep the project rolling — and jobs safe — for at least a year . |
| 28 | In fact , the young goat will remain beside its mother for at least a year . |
| 29 | No product is expected for at least a year . |
| 30 | NT would not appear on any of the bigger selling RISC processors — Sparc , RS/6000 or HP — for at least a year , probably two , said Michels , due to the difficulties of porting it to big-endian architectures . |